by TripleGoal Admin | Apr 27, 2023 | Leadership Skills
Developing as a leader is about cultivating our inner strength to stay true under fire, to ask questions we don’t know the answer to, to stay balanced when our world is turning upside down, to stay kind and respectful when the heat of anger and frustration are...
by TripleGoal Admin | Mar 22, 2023 | Leadership Skills
The basis of leadership is trust. In his book The Speed of Trust, Stephen M. R. Covey explains, ‘Trust always affects two measurable outcomes: speed and cost. When trust goes down, speed goes down and cost goes up. This creates a trust tax. When trust goes up, speed...
by TripleGoal Admin | Mar 22, 2023 | Leadership Skills
In their book The Leadership Challenge, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner explain that, ‘Leadership begins with a belief in yourself and continues only if other people believe in you.’ To believe in you, people have to know (1) who you are and what you stand for, and (2)...
by TripleGoal Admin | Oct 10, 2022 | Blog, Leadership Skills
Common Patterns in Leadership During my years of leadership consulting I have met far too many leaders who are acting either from a fear-based niceness or with a heartless ‘professional’ aggression. They have not mastered mindful compassion, nor are they enabling...
by TripleGoal Admin | Jul 27, 2022 | Blog, Leadership Skills
Tough Feedback and Reactive Behaviors We all have a hard time accepting tough feedback. We all want to be seen for our best qualities, and we want to defend, explain and justify our weaknesses. When avoiding accountability, we typically engage in one or more of these...
by TripleGoal Admin | Sep 22, 2021 | Leadership Skills
For leaders, gratitude is a catalyst for recognition. It makes us constantly look for the good in people and feeds our desire to share our gratitude for a job well done. It is a light we carry with us that people are drawn to because they feel good about themselves...