Principle 1: Manage Through Leadership
Virtual meetings are here to stay. How you participate in or run them can boost or sabotage the meeting, your team’s productivity and morale, and, ultimately, your career growth. Research by Yale shows virtual meetings are often less engaging and more challenging than face-to-face interactions. We must bring the same focus and reactions from in-person meetings to our virtual ones. Lean in...
A couple of months ago, my wife and I reluctantly started watching Ted Lasso. Last week, we started watching it all over again! Ted Lasso is a football coach who becomes a soccer coach. I won’t say more; please watch the show. I genuinely love everything about this show, especially Ted’s character. His energy, thoughtfulness, leadership style, team building, flaws, vulnerabilities...
Adaptability: One of humanity’s incredible blessings. Adaptability has saved us and helped us for thousands of years. This NYU publication explains how early humans survived and spread from Africa to Eurasia because of their adaptability. This adaptability allowed them to change and diversify, ultimately enabling them to thrive. These findings suggest that the ability to adapt was a...
“Empower don’t micromanage, but also be productive and result oriented. Deliver on time, and under budget, while building happy and fulfilled teams. Grow your career but also grow your team members’ careers.” – Seems like a bunch of oxymorons. But these are some of the responsibilities of a manager. As you can see, there are managerial tasks intertwined with leadership concepts...
Disclaimer: This is not another leadership blog. This blog is my attempt to: Introduce the concept of “Management Through Leadership”. Help new managers understand their new job, role, and responsibility. Help existing managers reflect on their current role and take it to the next level. Emphasize the extremely important role managers play in helping employees have successful and...