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How to Have Your Best Year Ever
Today is the first day of classes at Mountain State's main campus in Beckley, WV. Even though I am not on site in Beckley, I am excited to see what the new school year will hold for MSU and our students. I have written before about how I love new beginnings. For me,...
Organic Leadership Development
I am honored today to have the the post that launched LeaderTalk reposted with a fresh introduction by Dan McCarthy at Great Leadership. Dan has been an encouraging supporter for LeaderTalk since the blog's launch. I had the pleasure of talking with Dan on the phone...
Making a Plan for Leadership Learning
Every week I find more sources of leadership learning online. Through the recommendation of friends and links on Twitter, I am discovering new sources of insight, wisdom, and interest. But my computer time is limited. In addition to writing and promoting LeaderTalk...
Creative Redundancy and Team Alignment
During recent conversation, I shared a phrase that my husband Eric and I have used a lot in our work with churches. Our idea of Creative Redundancy is that people need to hear the same information again and again — in different ways — before they truly understand it...
Twitter for Beginners | Making it Work
This is my fifth post about Twitter for beginners. You can read the rest here, here, here, and here. Mashable reports that 60% of Twitter users quit in the first month. My sense is that people will return to something if they see its value in their life or business....
Cross Functional Teams and Team Alignment
One way to improve alignment of teams to an organization's overarching goals or mission is to create cross functional or interdisciplinary teams. Forming these teams can be time consuming but often results in worthwhile benefits to customers. I witnessed...
Twitter for Beginners | Direct Messages
The other day, a friend who has been using Twitter half-heartedly for a few months sent me a text message that said "I just got my first direct message on Twitter." For him, a notable moment. It is fun when people reach out in a more direct way to make a connection...
Leadership Challenge Forum | Angie Chaplin
Picture leadership potential as a pilot light. Barely visible, except when you know how to spot it. When that potential is encouraged and fueled, it can ignite a fire with unlimited potential. Angie Chaplin's leadership journey began at a young age, when her capacity...
Ask Good Questions
Saturday night, I returned to the site of my 9th grade prom, Black Knight Country Club in Beckley, WV, for another memorable event: my 20th high school reunion. While the music blared in the background and the sky outside flashed with lightning, I reconnected with...
Leadership at All Levels: Chicago Park District
You may remember my post, Leadership at All Levels: Continental Airlines. Leadership at All Levels is going to be a regular feature at LeaderTalk, a place where I can celebrate people I meet who are great leaders in their organizations. My two older daughters just...
Good Ideas Gone Bad
For me, a lot of the fun of a vacation is the planning. I enjoy mapping out fun activities for the family, finding places to go that everyone will enjoy. Of course, the actual experience is rarely exactly what I imagine. Sometimes it's better, sometimes much worse....
Twitter for Beginners | What to Tweet
You've taken care of the basics, right? You've: signed up for a Twitter account. dowloaded TweetDeck or another application. started to follow people in your field or area of interest. What next? In short, start tweeting. In my last post, I recommended that you set...