It isn’t enough to recognize other people have unconscious biases. You have to recognize yours and how deal with them. Part of understanding the role of unconscious bias in the workplace is admitting to yourself that you have biases too. Once you've accepted it, you can take steps to overcome those biases and embrace workplace diversity.
Why you need to be an unreasonable person to succeed
Podcast: Find Your Calling and Follow Your Intuition! Interview with Shannon Wallbran
It’s time to listen to our instincts and follow our intuition.
I believe my intuition has spoken to me many times long before my analytical mind had a chance to notice the signs or pick up on the subtle signals that must have been swirling about me.
Have you ever had something like this happen to you?
Maybe it wasn't as dramatic as my thinking it and then it appeared, but I'm sure you've had “gut reactions” or intuitive feelings that have guided your decisions — or should have.
Intuition isn't a skill just within the purview of mystics. We all possess it, and it is a well-researched phenomenon revealing that our brains have an amazing ability to pick up on patterns and respond to them in a nanosecond in the form of intuitive insights.
On today’s episode of Greatness is Within You by Lucy Kovalova-Woods, we talk with author Shannon Wallbran on how to find our calling and follow our intuition.
5 Ways for Leaders to Influence Organizational Culture
Do you make it a point to improve innovation, leadership or customer service without endlessly contributing to the conversation of what the culture needs to be? Do you know what the ‘to be’ state of your culture is? What aspects of our current culture are serving us and what aspects are literally impeding us to grow and build value?
Stop. Don't Be Like Google - There is Nothing Situational About Ethics
I purchased a copy of Eric Schmidt’s book “How Google Works.” I highlighted section after section. I could not wait until my next university class to have the highlights distilled by my students. After all, my teaching was as much about changing behavior as it was about establishing an ethical culture. I had explained there was nothing situational about ethics. The right thing is always the right thing.
My excitement subsided when I recently heard of Google having paid Android founder Andy Ruben over $90 million involving sexual harassment.
If you lost everything, what could you make with your life?
If you are struggling in any area of your life and business you should see this. When my marriage of 25 plus years ended I was alone and ashamed. There was no one in the entire world that believed in me. I cried myself to sleep on the beach in San Pedro, Ca crouched in my car. The next step is one you should write down
Sears: Complacency, Despicable Customer Service and Hedge Fund Leaders Better Suited As Hedge Fund Managers
There are countless companies similar to Sears, whose leadership has misconstrued NPS as customer service and dedicated employees as "lucky to have a job." Like cows that know how manure smells, employees dispassionately serve those paragons of the corner offices whose delusions obscure them from the warning signs of Sisyphus.
8 Ways to Conquer Fear and Get Out of Your Comfort Zones
Bad Traits of Weak Leaders and Impotent Managers
That work ethic has caused me to appreciate people who took such personal responsibility to turn their lives inside out to become so much more when they started out with so little. Which is why I become bereft when I see people from many organizations placate their insecurities by demeaning colleagues and employees whose abilities and ambitions exceed their own.
How to Be Happy and Successful
What Excuse Will Hold You Back Today? - Success Coaching
How to Engage Disinterested Employees
Locating outstanding talent is tough, but what’s even extra difficult is preserving the expertise you have got engaged so they may live. Unless you always reinvest in developing your employees with successful on-boarding and ongoing education—assisting them reach their complete capability—they will go away, and you may discover yourself returned at square one
Eliminating Bureaucracy in the Workplace or Not
What Characteristics Make a Great CEO Better?
Learn the leadership hacks that can make you a better CEO. As humans, we expect and need every day to have a purpose. We need our lives to count. A true purpose is what allows us to find out who we clearly are, to find the meaning in our work, and discover our talents, competencies, and resources of true pride. it is necessary to ensure a fulfilled and a successful life.
8 Ways to Build Strong Leadership in Turbulent Times
In an unpredictable economy what can you do to lead you team through murky waters and keep them motivated? Leadership is a contact sport. People want to know their leaders. Know your people and the departments they build. Roll your sleeves up and work on the front-lines. Make your supervisors do the same. Get out of the office as the ivory tower has a very different viewpoint than life meticulously cultivated to encourage them vs us.
4 Ways of Managing Manipulative People
Passive-aggressive behavior is destructive and should be addressed as soon as possible (particularly when it is affecting the whole team). Don’t wait for performance evaluations—act now! Learn the powerful strategies for combating passive and aggressive people who can thwart an organizations progress.
Why Servant Leadership Is Not Friendship
The consequences of inept leadership and ethics have been calamitous, and the effects are bound to be enduring. One thing is clear: we must do better. Leaders, managers, and front-line workers should commit to building excellent, ethical, and enduring organizations far removed from selfish underpinnings of power.
What a Homeless Man Taught Me On Authentic Leadership and Trust
What was the first decision you made today. Pity? Regret?A lot of people were born in situations they wish had been different. I say to them the “bus” runs everyday. They can change any time they want to providing they cease to being a victim. You can transform your life if you are not who you want to be. You can become the best parent possible.
The Doing and Being of Authentic Leadership
How to transform people and achieve business outcomes is a trait of a true leader. However, working on one’s personal persona rather the public persona is what makes one legendary. Your task for your employees is the same as for yourself, to become more effective, authentic individuals and leaders. One must:
6 Ways To Develop The Right Leadership Competency
An important characteristic of being an effective teacher is setting a good example. Leaders must ensure teams and employees develop the passion to feel highly engaged and committed. The behavior of the leader will function more as an example than any organizational tenets. Without a philosophy, our actions will lack consistency because they will simply be reactions to the behaviors