Executive leadership refers to the actions, responsibilities, and decisions of individuals at impactful levels of an organization. These leaders are responsible for making critical decisions that impact the departments, projects and also impact the direction and success of an organization or company.
The Executive Leadership Development Group includes the following modules:
Steering an organization toward success while navigating a complex landscape of challenges and responsibilities is a full-time job. Plus, you have another life that is super important to you, yes?
The days can be a blur and that's not fair to your quality of life or to the goals and aspirations that matter most to you.
Responsibilities may include but are not limited to:
1. Vision and Strategy
2. Decision-Making
3. Culture and Values
4. Resource Allocation
5. Constituents and People Management
6. Risk Management
7. Leadership Development
Challenges may include, but are not limited to:
Lead yourself well smack dab in the messy middle of executive leadership. It is serious fun and is packed with neuroscience tools and exercises transferrable to the people you lead.
Any questions, or to register for this group, please DM or email [email protected].
Part of what makes grief difficult, is that it's often invisible. Inside we are torn apart, but outside we look basically the same.
Being in the liminal space of what we had hoped for - and what is not to be - is like being in two places at once; looking backward and looking forward. This liminal space is not comfortable (or even welcome) and yet here it is, and here we are.
Here's the thing; it is only in the doorway of liminal space that we can slowly reconstruct our shattered world and re-emerge as transformed, whole people who are ready to live again.
10 Touchstones by Dr. Alan D. Wolfelt (text for coaching group)
1. open to the presence of your loss
2. dispel a dozen misconceptions about grief
3. embrace the uniqueness of your grief
4. explore your feelings of loss
5. understand the six needs of mourning
6. recognize you are not crazy
7. nurture yourself
8. reach out for help
9. seek reconciliation, not resolution
10. appreciate your transformation
Lead yourself through the liminal space.
Perfectionism receives far too many accolades, trophies and medals, as if it it is the gold standard of our acceptance, worthiness and everything magnificent in work and life.
The cost of perfectionism is too high. It will sabotage relationships, physical health, emotional health and intellectual health. Sounds like a devil's bargain to me.
(Thoughts?)
Perfectionism promises more wealth, more connections and more meaning. The small print will tell you that it will rob you of everything dear in your pursuit of it.
Perfectionism wires an enmeshment of mind, body and brain. It colours our perspective and expectations of self and others. Not in a healthy way!
Instead choose the 'some things' that will cascade into more of what matters to the *whole of you* for the long game, the infinite game.
No judgement. Only an acknowledgement that perfectionism may instill an addiction to something that is not worth fighting for. Only an invitation to consider another way.
The neuroscience of leading yourself well, includes noticing and naming some socially acceptable cultural norms, that deplete and rob you of what matters most.
Instead of perfectionism, choose the 'some things' that honour your values and the everydays of your journey.
Lead yourself well.
Where does the heartache go if you don't let it out?
"It doesn't disappear. It simply bides its time, patiently at first then urgently, like a caged animal pacing behind bars." (Quote by Dr. Alan D. Wolfert)
One of the many reasons that I am passionate about normalizing grief and loss is that I have coached waaayyyy too many people who have attempted to bypass loss and grief (of various kinds, not necessarily death, but including death) - and the non-acknowledgement, suppression or ignoring of grief, pain and loss has truly harmed their leadership capacity in really sad ways.
Grief and loss is common to ALL humans.
May we please normalize this experience in our work and life culture?
May we please normalize grief and loss conversation?
May we please bravely walk the journey of befriending grief rather than choosing to bypass it? (It's painful, I know. Believe me, I..
