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The Leadership Challenge: Burnout
The Point: As a leader, you’ve experienced burnout. I’m not talking about physical burnout where you can’t take another step from exhaustion. What I’m referring to is the emotional exhaustion that results in depersonalization and decreased personal accomplishment at work. Perhaps it’s the latest
The Leadership Challenge: Decision-Making – Three Tips!
The Point: We all make thousands of decisions daily. Take for instance your drive into work today; Did you take the same route as you always do? Did you take the road less traveled? Would you alter routes if you heard about the accident ahead that has traffic snarled to a stand still? My point is
The Leadership Challenge: Commitments – 1 Tip!
The Point: In my “BEST Leader in 30 Days” leadership development program that’s soon to be released at my 501(c)(3) structured nonprofit, one of the five practices areas that will make you the BEST leader possible surrounds the concept of commitments. In theory, commitments are a relatively
The Leadership Challenge: Judgement
The Point: What type of judgement do you have as a leader? Is it sometimes good, sometimes bad? And in those judgement-times, how do you go about deciding which way to choose? After all, there is a “right” way and a “wrong” way when it comes to judgement (especially when you consider the outcome of
The Leadership Challenge: Productivity
The Point: Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes in a year. Eight thousand seven hundred sixty hours. Three hundred sixty-five days. Twelve months in a year… You get where I’m going, that there are only so many hours in a day and once they are gone, they are indeed gone. We started
The Leadership Challenge: Surveys
The Point: We see a lot of surveys at both Tip of the Spear Ventures and The Javelin Institute (We’ve partnered with organizations to even create a few!) But a conversation with a client the other day caused us to wonder; "Why are we conducting surveys?", "What do we do with the data surveys
The Leadership Challenge: Addressing Challenges
The Point: Challenges… You can’t live with them… You’d probably be better off living without them! But here’s the reality: Challenges are a part of every leader’s life. We started thinking here at the Javelin Institute, “If challenges are going to be present, how can today’s leader effectively
The Leadership Challenge: Mistakes
The Point: Leadership can certainly pose challenges to those that lead in and of itself. Rarely is leadership a game of perfection and mistakes will be made. We started thinking here at the Javelin Institute, if leadership perfection is rarely the case, then how does a leader overcome the mistakes