Business Tip Tuesday 🚀

The short and sweet answer:  Self-Care

Momentum is the key to keeping your team engaged and motivated. It is an intangible force that fuels motivation and drives engagement, ultimately leading to increased productivity and goal achievement. To harness the power of momentum, leaders must actively cultivate and sustain it both personally and organizationally.

In the quest to develop patience, one must prioritize rational thinking over emotions. 

Self-regulation plays a crucial role in fostering appropriate responses, especially in today's fast-paced world. To wait without judgment requires discernment and a deliberate focus on cognitive input, rather than emotional outbursts.

True patience means waiting without frustration, which ultimately elevates our decision-making, actions, and relationships with stakeholders.

What is the most essential pre-requisite for effective leadership? Reflection.

Attaining self-awareness in leadership is a process, and it requires very intentional reflection.  Once you are able to reflect on your actions, not only will you become a better leader but you will also be able to bring more clarity to your decision making process and thereby reduce stress.

Below we talk about why reflection is important, how to implement it, how this can help you become more self-aware, and we give you an exercise to practice this new skill when you are feeling the stress of leadership.

Work ethic is an essential component of individual character, and it reflects the dedication, integrity, and discipline of an individual towards his/her work. It is a set of moral principles that govern an individual's work performance, and it is often associated with hard work and its intrinsic value.

In that sense, work ethic itself is not necessarily a skill, however, the idea of work ethic extends beyond just hard work; it includes working smart, being effective, utilizing time well, and finding joy in work.  And these are certainly skills you can train and improve upon.

In this blog, we explore many facets of a person's work ethic, using the framing method of shoulda, woulda, and coulda, to examine how it affects individuals, organizations, and society.  We discuss skills you can train to grow your own work ethic, but also better understand how your work ethic and character were shaped.

Often we as humans have blind spots. If left unchecked, these blind spots prevent us from our true potential.  Now, it is time to elevate and find some personal clarity.

I have a question for you, are you your best self? Furthermore, are you your best self while at work?

You may ask, “What does that even mean?”

Personal development is a journey. We must excel personally, to excel professionally, and organizationally. It is a lot of work, and many shy from getting on it. Know there is no end point; this is a life-long personal journey.

The response from last week’s anger management piece was so positive, I thought we would provide even more resources for you on this valuable topic.  My hope here is for you to control your anger when it arises and avoid wanting a “Do Over”, which is never fun for anyone!