Joyful Leader

As a leader, there are three general components to your work experience: you, your team, and the work you do.

How you think about these things, and the priority you give them, can make a huge differe…

The habits of an organization either build culture or erode it.

In our 2nd Culture Eroder (Culture Builder) episode, we’re talking about indecision.

Indecision is slow and heavy; it weighs down your …

On today’s Joyful Leader, we’re talking more about decisions.

Specifically, how to break down a decision into its component parts — or anatomy — and how doing this can help us make the right decision…

Decisions are how we move forward and generate momentum in our lives and work. We decide, we move forward, we learn . . . lather, rinse, repeat.

Over the next few episodes, we’re going to talk about …

When I first began supervising people, one of the first components of my management training was a session all about building trust.

Trust is fundamental. It’s a building block of a healthy culture a…

The habits of an organization either build culture or erode it.

And today, we’re talking about a big culture eroder: wasting people’s time.

Time wasting often happens in some predictable buckets. Tod…

In my community, we do goals. We love goals. Setting them, achieving them.

And, we do goals in some very specific ways. Today I’m sharing my rules for goals, starting with the biggest and most import…

Our emotions are like fuel in our tanks.

They take us where we need to go, and like actual fuel, have different properties.

Some burn clean for miles and miles. Others burn hot and fast and powerful …

Last week we discussed purpose — and how it is always internal, never external. In our lives, we choose containers in which to express our purpose, including our jobs.

This week, we’re exploring a sp…

I hear from a lot of people that they are looking for — or haven’t yet found — their purpose. In today’s episode, we’re going to clarify where purpose lives. And where it doesn’t.

So many of us think…

An essential part of leadership is knowing where to direct your attention.

Given the number of things we have on our plates at any one time and our finite attention, how do we choose?

Today, we’re ta…

On a regular basis, my clients bring up observations about the way their companies operate, often in the context of their leadership teams. They notice default communication styles, teaching styles, …

Confidence and arrogance are VERY different things. They are both emotions, but come from different mindsets, and look very different.

AND YET. :) We sometimes confuse them. We think that our confide…

We use so many tools throughout our lives and work — project management, life management, mind management. Tools, systems, frameworks, and rubrics are everywhere. These things are designed to help us…

We’re talking about how to think about the process of change — which is essentially rewiring your brain. When we change anything, we switch from an existing brain habit to a new one.

Today we’re disc…

Every time we change anything in our lives — habit, relationship, attitude, anything — we are essentially rewiring the brain. We’re creating new patterns of thought, feeling, and action.

Many times, …

Get ready to connect all the dots.

In the last several episodes, we’ve been talking about using time well, and today, we’re bringing all the concepts together in a step-by-step guide to planning your…

Today, we’re talking about the third phase of the accomplishment and time usage process: doing.

While doing the thing — task, project, conversation — might seem like the most straightforward part, yo…

Way back a few episodes ago, when we launched the series about using your time well, I mentioned the idea of deciding vs. intending.

It was sort of a gloss-over moment, but it’s a hugely important id…

I’ve thought it many times. And hear it often from clients.

An obstacle to planning our time is that we don't know how much time things take.

Surprising but true, this is the very definition of a sel…