This week’s book of the week is Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves. It is a small book and short read, but what I like most about it is that it really focuses on getting you to understanding your emotional intelligence (EQ). You find out what level you’re at and then are…
Year: 2019
Process for Continued Leadership Growth
Many times when we think of leadership, we think of a person. True leadership should move through someone, not be someone. True leadership teaches and mentors so that others may lead. It empowers others so that it may multiply it’s efforts. That is the real goal of this blog: to equip you with the mentorship…
Influence’s Tools, Concession and Consistency
This week’s Book of the Week is Influence by Robert B. Cialdini. Some of these techniques for influence whether in sales or negotiations, you may have heard before. But, the big lesson in his collection of techniques is keeping them in mind and using them more frequently. Also when you can throw in more than…
Lead like Shirley Chisholm
What do you define as leadership? Someone who’s able to move massive amounts of people? Someone who’s able to lead movements like Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandi? Maybe you think of someone who kept a country from dividing and stood with moral courage like Abraham Lincoln. Or maybe you think of someone like a…
Influence by Robert B. Cialdini ~ Wednesday’s Book of the Week
Wednesday’s book of the week is Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini, Ph.D. Dr. Cialdini does an intense study on what gets people to say “yes”. This is useful in sales, marketing, and most importantly leading. Why is it that some people just have this magic glow about them that gets others…
Discovering and Developing Core Values
Why is it important to know the core values of your team? Because if you do not know where they are coming from, how on earth are you ever going to communicate with them? Let’s be honest. There’s a lot to do. And we can get so caught up in the task that we forget…
Tim Ferriss and Marie Kondo Mashup
This week in addition to reading The 4 Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss, I’ve been listening to Marie Condo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up on audible. I know opposite ends of the spectrum, or so I thought. Although I don’t share her enthusiasm for tidying, it had gotten to the point I thought I…
10 Leadership Quotes That Changed How I Think
Every week I read a new book on leadership or self-development. This is kind of a running list of some of the quotes that have most challenged me and strengthened me at the same time. I will continue to add to this page as the weeks of reading go on and I invite you to…
45 Life Lessons from “Girl, Wash Your Face”
These “Life Lessons” were taken from Rachel’s book, Girl, Wash Your Face. If you like this list and you love to laugh then you can’t go wrong with her book. You can find it here in on audible, kindle, or old school book on Amazon! Rachel Hollis‘s 45 Life Lessons from Girl, Wash Your Face…
Conquer Fear like Tim Ferris
Mark Twain is quoted as saying, “I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.”³ It’s a funny quote with a lot of wisdom. So much of what we fear never happens. And yet so much of what we fear is what keeps us from living…