What Will You Do With Your “Dash”?
Your life is “two dates with a dash in the middle.” Will you surrender that dash to the circumstances of this moment in time? Or will you stand up and take control?
Your life is “two dates with a dash in the middle.” Will you surrender that dash to the circumstances of this moment in time? Or will you stand up and take control?
Is your work and life calendar bursting at the seams? Build “slack” into your schedule and watch as productivity and creativity soar.
When do you pause? Are you present to the blessings of your life? Do you take time to experience joy? In your constant rush, are you ever truly efficient?
While preventing disengagement is good, inspiring active engagement is even better. The most powerful way to inspire engagement of a workforce is to draw upon the passion that resides within your team.
Are the professed values of your team consistent with demonstrated behaviors? Hypocrisy is the single greatest detriment to employee engagement. Intentionally define and implement a values-based culture to fight back!
According to Gallup, approximately two-thirds of the US workforce is not engaged. Simply put, these employees are going through the motions. I refer to these individuals as “Zombies in the Workforce.”
In the midst of a global health pandemic, we are seeing many good and some “not-so-good” leadership examples in business, government, and communities. Consider the Five “Y’s.” Ask yourself, who is worthy of your assessed designation as a leader?
You’ve heard integrity defined by doing the right thing when no one is watching. What about doing the right thing when everyone IS watching?
Has your work and life routines been disrupted by the coronavirus? Here’s how can you make the most of this disruption in pursuit of personal and professional development.
When you say you will do something, do you follow through? Do you show up on time? Do you honor your commitments — and your word? We all fall short at times relative to this form of integrity. The good news is that we can restore it.