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When you lose visibility of your goals, your dreams die.
This quote by Michael Hyatt reminds us how important it is to keep our goals visible.
When we see our goals frequently, they remind us, motivate us, and inspire us to take action.
When we lose sight of our goals, we lose focus and get busy with the trivial.
Make it a habit to look at your goals every day - if they really matter to you.
Now on to 5 Ideas To Unleash Your Leadership and Career This Week…
How To Make Your Conversations Impactful
" You are only as impactful as your conversations"
Leadership is an ongoing conversation between a leader and their team. If you wish to improve your impact as a leader, focus on making each conversation impactful.
In this article, I share guidelines on how to make your conversations impactful The characteristics of impactful conversations include intimacy, interactivity, inclusion, and intentionality.
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How To Make Meetings Work By Starting Right
"leaders who routinely host dynamic, high-engagement meetings set up conversations as opportunities for real work — regardless of the specific purpose... And, with this simple shift, they tap into one of the biggest day-to-day sources of team motivation: a sense of progress toward a worthwhile goal."
Meetings are usually unproductive and a huge drain on people's time and energy. Yet, they are essential, so getting meetings to work is an important skill for leaders.
In this article, Elizabeth Doty explains how to make meetings work by starting right. The suggestions include welcoming and connecting people to each other, bringing the purpose of the meeting to life, and previewing the work that needs to be done
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How To Build Resilience Through Connection
"resilience is found not just in having a network of supporters, but in truly connecting with them when you need them most. It’s in the actual interactions themselves... that we become resilient"
Resilience is an important trait that allows you to stay longer in the game, deal with setbacks and failure, and make progress toward a goal.
In this article, Rob Cross and his coauthors show us how to build resilience through connection. Connections help you build greater resilience in a variety of ways including helping us manage work surges, navigate politics, and reconnect to purpose.
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How To Deal With Conflicting Advice From Mentors
"When mentors bring different perspectives, experiences, or backgrounds to the table, they may offer clashing guidance."
If you seek advice from more than one mentor, it is highly likely that you get different, and sometimes conflicting advice from them. This is only to be expected because each mentor brings a unique set of experiences that shapes their point of view.
In this article, Elana Feldman and William Kahn provide ideas on how to deal with conflicting advice from mentors. Their suggestions include asking for clarification, asking others, and also taking stock of how important each mentoring relationship is.
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When Slowing Down Helps You Move Faster
"raw speed kills. Sometimes you have to tap the brakes and slow down to ultimately move faster"
In our constant obsession with speed, we find it difficult to see and accept that sometimes, to move fast, we have to slow down.
In this article, Art Petty reminds readers of the times when slowing down helps you move faster. Some examples of situations in which leaders are advised to slow down include problem-solving, assessing decision-making quality, and not charging ahead unless the mission parameters are clear.
For most of us, it is almost a year since we started working from home. This arrangement has several advantages - saving commute time, spending time with (having meals with) family, not having to be stuck in traffic, etc to name a few.
It also has several downsides.
- People are spending longer hours on office work
- Work/life boundaries have eroded, and constantly encroaching into each other
- Lack of physical contact with people except with your own family
But perhaps most importantly, it has disrupted the opportunity to build, engage and maintain networks.
In theory, this should be possible to do virtually. In practice, with so many calls and video-conferences, fatigue has set in, and it is very difficult to motivate oneself to make a few more calls or join another video-conference.
Take stock of how you've been engaging and growing your network. If this is something you have been neglecting, you should set yourself some goals in this area.
Or better still, build some habits that will strengthen your networking efforts.
Until next time
Narayan
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