Resiliency in the age of a hybrid or fully remote environment is more important now than ever.  Your team is everything- you build your organization and you rely on each other. Being resilient will help your team continue to grow, even through its most difficult moments.  High Performing vs Resilient Teams High performing teams are often those that get the job done and then some, but they often experience burn-out and can crumble their systems easily. Resilient teams can weather the storms. They have a set of structures or principles that help the team adjust to the difficulties and ..read more

Group vs. Team: What does your organization look like?  Group is several individuals coming together, like a wrestling team. They work individually. Team is several individuals working collectively towards a single goal, like a soccer team. They are interdependent on each other. How can this be identified? Ask your team. How do they see they are working? Make observations. Who’s continually contributing? Is your team’s success dependent on a few select people? Is everyone working on projects individually? Look at your team’s collaboration. Is your team aligned to the same goal? How do you ..read more

Leading with Heart truly embodies its name. Our leaders and coaches lead with their hearts. Often, this centers around moments of gratitude in personal lives and within companies and organizations. Incorporating moments of recognizing what people are grateful for can change a company culture drastically, all with just a few minutes of time! Ways to incorporate gratitude in your organization: Begin and end meetings with an expression of gratitude.  Keep a journal close by to keep track of moments of gratitude. Incorporate a thought of gratitude in your email signature. Make a commitment to ..read more

Servant Leaders prioritize the needs of their team members. Their role is to serve, rather than being served.  These leaders are focused on service to people and organization and the team works together toward common goals.  Are you serving a mission greater than yourself? What YOU need, not what I need.   This is a flipped model of leadership- the leader is there to support what the team needs and what the customer needs, not the other way around.  Essential skills for servant leaders: Empathy– If you can’t understand how others are feeling, you will have a hard time ..read more

Why is influence important as a leader? If you don’t know how to influence others as a leader beyond just your title, it’s going to be difficult to make any impact on your employees. Influence isn’t fear. You want to get the buy-in and people on your side.  What gets in the way of your influence? Simply put, making it all about you gets in the way of your influence on others. The leaders with the most influence truly serve their employees, company, and customers.  How do you build your influence? Gain self-awareness of what people think of you.  Gather data! Using Leading with ..read more

Leading with Heart has been recognized by Manage HR as the Top Organizational Development Services Company for 2022! Manage HR awards ten companies each year that are at the forefront in their industry in tacking customer challenges. The Leading with Heart team consistently strives to guide leaders and companies toward facing challenges head-on, while engaging in heart-based strategies. Interested in seeing how our Heart-Based Approach to Leadership can help your organization? Contact us here! See the feature below to hear more about this recognition! Leading-with-Heart-ReprintDownload -Dr. Je ..read more

Humility is recognizing that you are serving something bigger than yourself. Someone who is humble seeks to serve and support others and their organization. Someone who is not humble is self-centered and looks at what they can get out of it, not the larger group. If you lack humility, you don’t care about others opinions because you think you’re the smartest one in the room.  What are the characteristics of a leader that you respect? These people are likely very humble leaders.  What makes a humble leader? “You” centered language A leader doesn’t give feedback based on them. They are ..read more

Every company has to do it.  When do you do it? What kind of questions need to be asked? Should pay raises be included? And let’s face it- they usually go terribly. Leaders will often talk AT an employee, rather than engage in dialogue WITH the employee. Dr. Jeff Kaplan and Raj Khera discuss how to make these performance reviews more beneficial for everyone. To ensure that performance reviews are effective, employees should:  Complete a form analyzing their own progress. One important part of this should be leadership development goals and business goals. The performance review woul ..read more

Company strategy is great. But, it isn’t enough if your culture doesn’t support it. Core decisions in a company must begin with your value, mission, and priorities. The culture you’re working to create impacts these decisions. This must start with identifying your company’s values. Here are some things to think about when building a company culture: Make sure that your identified cultures don’t conflict with what really happens. For example, if your company pledges to create a work-life balance, expecting responses to emails on the weekend or in the evenings is unrealistic. This directly clash ..read more

Imposter Syndrome is believing that you don’t know what you’re doing and hoping that no one in your business finds out. It doesn’t matter if you’re new to the role or you are a seasoned executive taking on a new role in the company.  Using the basic tenets of Leading with Heart, humility and empathy, Dr. Jeff Kaplan and Raj Khera will walk you through the process of getting past your Imposter Syndrome and “building successive confidence.” Imposter Syndrome can be a friendly nudge.  It should say: What am I missing? Or, what do I have to learn? Solution: Take the fear piece and throw ..read more