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What Every Leader Needs
I enjoyed people-watching at last week's Leadership Link Conference. One common thread united all the people attending the conference: their interest in leadership. People at the conference fit a few categories. Some were long-time leaders. They've been leading for...
Moms Lead at the Top Level and On the Front Lines
My girls have be talking about Mother's Day for weeks: planning, sneaking, scheming, secret-keeping.The littlest girl has decided that every day is Mother's Day. So, on sunny afternoons she brings me flowers in her outstretched palm declaring "Happy...
Servant Leadership in Action
Yesterday, schools across America set aside a special day to recognize the contribution of our nations' teachers: National Teacher Day. In many places, like my daughter's school, the celebration and appreciation extends to fill an entire week. For good reason —...
This Is The Moment
Have you ever experienced setbacks, encountered challenges, or failed miserably? Struggled, made a poor choice, or taken a wrong turn? Said words you regret, missed an opportunity, wasted time? Do I even need to ask? If you want to lead yourself and others you need to...
With Only A Few Key Strokes
One of the reasons I love social media is that it allows me to connect to people around the world. Social media gives me the ability to learn from and share with people I may not have the opportunity to meet any other way. Recently, I met a man on Twitter who teaches...
How to Create Relationship Magic on Your Team
If you're new to LeaderTalk, you may not know that I am a work-at-home mom. In addition to writing and promoting LeaderTalk, I homeschool a kindergartener, cajole a toddler, carpool a third-grader, and keep our home running smoothly. Oh, and I also teach online for...
Why Teams?
Can you hear the grumbling? It's the second week of class for my students in Mountain State University's BSOL online program. So far, working on teams has been challenging for my students. At school or in the workplace, working with others can be difficult. Here's...
A Crisis of Confidence
It's week two in my first experience teaching online students for Mountain State University. The learning cycles we are reading about in class are being lived out in our virtual classroom. Marilyn Taylor's Model of the Learning Cycle outlines critical points in the...
Teams and Learning Styles
One prominent factor in a team's effectiveness in teams, according to learning expert David A. Kolb PhD, is the careful consideration of the learning style of each team member. "We are often most effective in our job when we work alongside team members with different...
I Guess I Shouldn’t Be Surprised: Team Building and Communication
...that it is my first week of class facilitating a cohort of students in Mountain State University's Bachelor of Organizational Leadership program and I am already seeing leaders emerge. One of my students is going to near-heroic efforts to ensure that all the...
How Diverse is Your Neighborhood?
When I lived in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago, I experienced the sights, sounds, and smells of the world at my doorstep. Snippets of conversations in several languages during an afternoon at the playground. Corner grocery stores, each unique in its ethnic...
Making Strangers Into Friends
Yesterday, I enjoyed a lovely lunch. 65 degrees and sunny. My friend, my daughters, and I ate outside to soak up the sun. Midway through our lunch, a woman dining alone sat down at the table next to us. We continued our conversation for awhile, and then she joined in...