Voices in Leadership
A library of recommended leadership & personal growth voices aligned with Reach for Your Best's Amplify + Multiply Leadership Lens Contact UsCraft a Career That Reflects Your Character – Isaac H. Smith & Maryam Kouchaki
How often do you view your job as an avenue for becoming your best moral self? …Although nearly all people want to see themselves as good, moral human beings, a recent study suggests that many of us don’t prioritize morality in our personal development.
How to Be a Purpose-Driven Leader Without Burning Out – Lisa Earle McLeod & Elizabeth Lotardo
Servant leadership was a crucial stepping-stone into a more humane world of work. But the next evolution is upon us… towards a more purposeful leadership style that focuses on the impact that the organization’s work has on real live human beings.
How to develop more relationship-savvy leaders – Amy Lavoie
A new paradigm of leadership development culture and practice is emerging — one that is personalized to individual needs and built on relationships more than static training
What Makes a Leader? – Daniel Goleman
The chief components of emotional intelligence—self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skill—can sound unbusinesslike, but… found direct ties between emotional intelligence and measurable business results.
How To Ask For More | The Learning Leader with Ryan Hawk
Negotiation is NOT a transaction over money… Negotiation is any conversation where you are steering a relationship.”
Becoming a More Humane Leader – Rasmus Hougaard & Jacqueline Carter
Very simply put, management is about managing others, about exercising executive control over people. Leadership, on the other hand, is about seeing and hearing others, setting a direction, and then letting go of controlling what happens next.
Seven Steps to Lessen Your Frustration – Dr. Peter Stewart
Yes, each individual may have various stressors that contribute to their response, but at the core, all frustration is due to a single factor–expectations!
What Makes Leadership Development Programs Succeed? – Yemiscigil, Born, Ling
The best leadership development programs lead to deep personal growth and boost the happiness, meaning, and vitality people experience at work and in life… fostering wellbeing is both an end in and of itself and a critical strategy to drive performance and retention.
How to Turn a Group of Strangers into a Team – Amy Edmondson
Look to your left, look to your right. How quickly can you find the unique talents, skills and hopes of your neighbor, and how quickly, in turn, can you convey what you bring?
Because for us to team up to build the future we know we can create that none of us can do alone.
Leadership Development Accelerates With a Fresh Take on Coaching – Mary Slaughter
Typically, it’s not the operational execution that derails a leader, but their ability to deal with people.
7 Popular Coaching Models – SOCO
When coaching is effective, team members become more autonomous and self-sufficient… coaching empowers the individual to take ownership of necessary actions.
When Your ‘Why’ matches ‘Where You’re Going’ – Simon Sinek
The Why is 100% objective. You don’t get to decide what your Why is. It is what it is… Your Just Cause – you get to decide what cause you’d like to be a part of; what cause you’d like to devote your life to. A Just Cause is about “where we’re going”.
Choosing Optimism – Pete & Jen
living in a fantasy world is disregarding reality because it's more convenient for you to do that. But being an optimist is believing that a better future is possible.Pete & Jen on The Long and The Short of it Podcast at The Long and The Short of It
Stop Being a Bystander in Your Own Life – Tracy Edwards
Life doesn’t go from A to B – it’s messy.
What Having a “Growth Mindset” Actually Means – Carol Dweck
It’s hard work, but individuals and organizations can gain a lot by deepening their understanding of growth-mindset concepts… It gives them a richer sense of who they are, what they stand for, and how they want to move forward.
What can we learn from people who succeed later in life? – ideas.ted.com
Your chance of success has little to do with your age. It’s shaped by your willingness to try repeatedly for a breakthrough.
The Art of the Elevator Pitch – Carmine Gallo
If you can’t communicate your pitch in one short sentence, don’t give up… Be patient. Once you master the logline, you will be able to easily clarify your ideas and help the audience retain, remember, and act on them.
3 of the Most Common Communication Mistakes – Bob Taibbi
The challenge here is about stepping up and being the rational one in a sea of confusion and emotion. It’s about not getting derailed but keeping your eyes on the goal.
United’s CEO Sent an Email at 3:30 in the Morning. It’s a Lesson in Emotional Intelligence – Justin Bariso
One major facet of what we nowadays refer to as EQ is the ability to recognize when we’re wrong and make changes.
There is more to life than being happy – Emily Esfahani Smith
Belonging, Purpose, Transcendence, Storytelling… those are the four pillars of meaning. We need to build these pillars within our families and our institutions to help people become their best selves. – Emily Esfahani Smith
The Power of Giving Back – Les Brown on YouTube
Everything you do and every decision you make should be from a place of good. You should always be striving to make the world a better place. – Les Brown
Finish Strong: Amazing Stories of Courage & Inspiration – Anatole France
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. – Anatole France
The Language of Being Human – Poet Ali
When you see someone, ask yourself – “what languages do we share” – Poet Ali
To Sound Like a Leader, Think About What You Say, and How and When You Say It – Rebecca Shambaugh
Your executive voice is less about your performance; it relates more to your strategic instincts, understanding of context, and awareness of the signals you send in your daily interactions and communications
Beautiful Balance – Courage & Fear – Cara E. Yar Khan
The fact that someone who wasn’t me was putting limitations on my dreams and ambitions was preposterous and unacceptable. – Cara E. Yar Khan
Live for your résumé … or your eulogy? – David Brooks
The eulogy virtues are… who are you, in your depth; what is the nature of your relationships; are you bold, loving, dependable, consistency? – David Brooks
The Best Leaders Are Versatile Ones – Robert Kaiser
It is not an overstatement to say that versatility is the most important component of leading effectively today… Leaders are typically better at reading change than they are at responding to it.
Pathway To Business Success Is An Infinite Mindset – Simon Sinek
The goal is to… make our culture stronger this year than it was last year, and to make our leaders better leaders this year than they were last year.
If we are trying to outdo anyone, it should be ourselves. – Simon Sinek
Your Weaknesses & Strengths – Here’s What Tips The Scales – Robert Glazer
If you or someone you know is struggling to fit in, rather than muting or discouraging their strengths, instead help them find the right application for what makes them unique. – Robert Glazer
Marriott’s CEO Shared a Video With His Team – a Powerful Lesson in Leading During a Crisis
The lesson here is this: Talk to your team. They need to hear from you. They need you to be honest, be clear, and be transparent. They deserve nothing less from you–their leader.
Coping with Fatigue, Fear, and Panic During a Crisis – Tony Schwartz & Emily Pines
We are dealing with 2 contagions — the virus itself & the emotions it generates. Negative emotions are every bit as contagious as the virus.
When the World is Unknown, Leaders Create Possibility – Nate Garvis
You can look at this from the mindset of anxiety or of opportunity… now is the time for those who are able to lead their energies and others toward creating the ideas that will shape the new normal to come.
If You Lead People Today Do These 5 Things – Marcus Buckingham
Most of us woke up Monday morning to a very different reality from what we were expecting last month… and yet somehow, the world is still turning and we’re expected to do our work as usual.