Are the best leaders also the best parents?

Personal values list
Our instructor, a seasoned attorney, carries a $100 bill and tells people when riding elevators he’ll give it to them if they can share their personal values before the door opens. He’s never given away the $100. He would have yesterday if he had tested the audience.

 

Empathy is often regarded as one of the top leadership qualities differentiating great leaders from good leaders.

And there’s talk about some adults being too busy to be effective parents, that is, too busy to generously demonstrate empathy.

This is why i insist great leaders differentiate themselves with:

  1. clear, concise, compelling vision
  2. enhancing employee involvement by moving past training, to development, to foster commitment (versus compliance)
  3. putting structure and process in place to have absolute clarity on accountability for priorities and balance
  4. demonstrating the most commitment on your team, and if there was a private vote, you’d be unanimously selected

Makes perfect sense.

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PS. The 5 personal values i’ve been teaching our son since he could talk:

  1. Honesty
  2. Behave admirably
  3. Personal Responsibility
  4. Self-control
  5. Initiative

We worked on honesty (trust) from day one. Behaving admirably was introduced with the advent of sleepovers. Personal responsibility added during elementary school. Self-control added during adolescence. And initiative was added last year as a High Schooler. Next up is fun – probably add that tonight.

 

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This website is about our career health. To leave this site to read today’s post on my home health website, click here.

 

On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

 

Pamela really wants jeff noel’s feedback

Ellie Caulkins Opera House event
My seat is front row, center.

 

Pamela really wants jeff noel’s feedback.

Why?

Guess.

Sorry, that was arrogant wasn’t it?

We see what we want to see.

It is quiet, secure confidence.

You want to be on a stage and light a room of 600 on fire, you better damn well have confidence pouring out your veins.

PS. Note…that is what positive self-talk looks like. i never say stuff like that publicly. Every once in awhile, though, i write it here in the (faint) hope that if something bad ever happens to me, our son will have a chance to discover some of this.

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Is access to a Disney career insider worth it’s weight in gold?

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One side of a different business card.

 

Began packing yesterday for the first business flight of 2015.

Denver.

Copyblogger’s Authority Rainmaker two-day conference on Content Marketing.

Submitted an offer to be a speaker’s coach for every speaker presenting over both days. It was a long shot because in exchange, i asked that the registration fee be waived.

My offer included me paying all my own travel expenses.

Was it the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to learn from a Disney career insider that made their answer, “Yes”.

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Let’s hope he can overcome his deficiency

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There is joy is finally accepting that you are an expert at the things you’ve spent your life doing

 

Flying in first class to Orlando yesterday, she said she’s a certified life coach and shared the highly esteemed credentials she recently received. She’s also a small business entrepreneur at age 31. Her next three days will be spent speaking at Orange County Convention Center.

It all sounded so impressive.

And then the aha moment…

The person she was talking to has been receiving his credentials from one of the World’s most admired companies for 30 years, almost as long as she’s been alive – yet he has no ‘official certification’.

The message for all of us?

Take stock in our experience – it rivals (and can easily trump) a diploma with few exceptions.

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