Leadership
Snow Globes and Training Wheels: How to Begin a New Year
12shares Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn By: Tim Elmore Following the holiday break, I wanted to offer you a word of encouragement. Every person I met in 2020 could hardly wait for the new year to begin — including frontline workers who are exhausted from their labors, folks working from home who are lonely and annoyed,…
Continue ReadingWhy Leaders Miss New Opportunities and How to Fix That in 2021
6shares Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn By: Tim Elmore Tony Piloseno, an Ohio State University senior, took a part-time job working at a local Sherwin-Williams store a few years ago. Unlike many employed college students, he actually enjoyed his work. In fact, he loved it so much he started a TikTok account just to show off…
Continue ReadingEducators: The Most Important Leadership Trait You Can Teach This Year
27shares Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn A young couple recently moved into a new house. While eating breakfast their first morning, the young woman saw her neighbor hanging her wash on the clothesline in her backyard. “That laundry looks dirty. She doesn’t know how to wash correctly. Maybe she needs better detergent,” remarked the wife. Her…
Continue ReadingThree Questions That Challenge Students to Lead
6shares Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn A few weeks ago, seven high school and college students organized an effort to get a petition signed that would create a mask-wearing policy in their city of Savannah, GA. I spoke to them about their strategy to reach their goal and why it felt so important. Each student found…
Continue ReadingThree Myths About Leadership We Must Help Students Discard
8shares Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn For decades now, leadership professors and leader development specialists have categorized leadership using an uppercase letter: Leader, verses a lowercase letter: leader. This is helpful in determining how different people influence a team. First, those who appear to be natural leaders, often in positions of authority, are Leaders. The uppercase…
Continue ReadingFive Tips for Accelerating Growth through Feedback
13shares Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn The ability to think about yourself from the outside in, like a camera observing from a corner of the room, is a distinctly human capacity. But unless you are actually watching a recording of yourself, the ability to get an accurate outside perspective is limited. You can’t even hear your…
Continue ReadingFive Brilliant Leadership Lessons From the Protests in Louisville
30shares Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn One of the most moving stories emerging from the protests against police brutality, and on behalf of George Floyd (and others) who’ve been victims of racists cops, was a story out of the protests in Louisville, Kentucky in response to the killing of Breonna Taylor. Officer Galen Hinshaw heard the…
Continue ReadingHow to Lead Generation Z When You’re Not in Charge
6shares Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Leading is never easy–especially when you don’t have a badge. And it can be even tougher when you attempt to lead students. By this, I mean gaining authority in a teen’s life is an accomplishment, especially if you have no title or position of leadership. Consider this case study from…
Continue ReadingHow Student Leadership is Morphing for Generation Z
21shares Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn “I see leadership differently than my parent’s generation does.” Those are the words of Brandon, a college sophomore, who ended his semester at home when the entire student body at Vanderbilt University left due to COVID-19. The coronavirus is changing us, and Brandon believes it is only accelerating a change…
Continue ReadingWhat People Need Most from Their Leaders in Times of Crisis
17shares Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn There is a piece of content making its way around on social media right now that summarizes what every leader needs to remember as we endure this strange time in our history. “We are all in the same boat—but we are not all in the same storm. For some people,…
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