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Making Decisions

Myers–briggs Type Indicator

Myers Briggs Personalities

MBTI Decision Making

Making decisions to solve problems is influenced by the two middle letters of your Myers Briggs Personality Type (ENFJ = NF; ISTJ = ST). These two letters are known as the mental processes. They help us understand what information gets our attention -- Sensing (S) or iNtuition (N). They also help us understand the criteria we use when we are making decisions -- Thinking (T) or Feeling (F). The recipe for the best decisions includes all four.

5 Ways To Find Clarity

We know our teams need clarity to thrive in uncertainty. Guess what? So do you. As a leader it's easy to be captivated by the urgent. But the pursuit of clarity will save time and, over the long haul, energy. Here are five ways to find clarity. Check out my blog post on clarity!

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What Is A Leader

Be Confident In Yourself

How to make decisions when things aren't clear

It is certainly not easy to be clear when everything seems to be so uncertain. Leaders are being asked questions they can’t fully answer right now. The answer today can change tomorrow with new information, challenges and influences. What is a leader to do when being clear seems elusive? Check out my blog post on clarity.

Ways To Leverage Team Strengths

If you’ve named that a strength of the team is that they are responsive to the needs of each other >> well then tomorrow when you go to work you might start seeing how they listen, step up, and help others. You’ve put on a lens that changes how you see what is going on around you. Now that we see them, how do we reinforce them? Listen to full episode.

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Ways to Leverage Team Strengths

In the last episode we talked about how to uncover the strengths of your team even in the middle of chaos. Not the individual team member strengths – but what collectively as a group emerges when you work together that makes the team better together. Let’s take the question deeper: “How can we leverage the strengths we’ve identified for our team to work better together?”

Uncover Strengths Through Stories

Sometimes strengths go unnoticed and then underutilized. By mining for strengths through storytelling you can find ways to “formalize” the use of strengths in the way you structure work or project timelines. You end up solving problems without overfocusing on what’s wrong, instead you’re focusing on what is right about the team.

Uncover Strengths Through Stories

“How do we figure out what our strengths are in the middle of all the chaos that we are dealing with that tends us towards focusing on what’s wrong or what we need to fix?” Let’s dive into a way for you to work with your team to change the narrative through a storytelling activity. Listen to the podcast for the full description and use the instructions below as a guide if you’d like to facilitate your own team activity.

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Build Your Character

Surround Yourself With People Who

Surround Yourself With People

Be Honest With Yourself

What Makes a Leader a Leader?

What makes someone a leader? It seems like some people are thrown into leadership and others strive for it? The risk in either scenario is that you focus on leadership rather than the person who you want to be and the person God wants you to be. So, do the work to build your character. Surround yourself with people who can be honest with you. Walk in humility and self awareness. Continue to pursue growth.

How Leaders Become Leaders

What makes someone a leader? It seems like some people are thrown into leadership and others strive for it? You can hear both parts of the question that are really linked together. One, what is a leader? And the other is how does one become a leader? Last episode we walked through the conversation on what actually is a leader? But how do leaders of any kind become leaders?

What Makes a Leader a Leader?

When people see competency they are drawn to it. There have been leaders – without an organizational title – that have changed the world and people have followed the ideas of inventors or scientists and that influence has moved well beyond any organization. It also shows up in other roles like trainers, consultants, or contractors; an author or podcaster who contributes their expertise to influence the direction or capacity of the team.

What Makes a Leader a Leader?

Are leaders born or made? It’s human nature to sort things by comparing this or that. Let’s first dive into the question of “what is a leader?” Next episode we’ll talk about how some people are thrown into leadership and others strive for it. So, what is a leader…? #leadyourleaderspodcast #askannieanything #leadershippodcast

Making Time To Think Strategically

"As I take on more leadership responsibilities, I’m finding that I need more time to step back and do more planning and strategizing. How do I make that time productive so I don’t just spin my wheels?" Listen to the full episode for more advice on this leader’s question: https://podfollow.com/lead-your-leaders/ #leadyourleaderspodcast #askannieanything #leadershippodcast

Making Time to Think Strategically

It’s true that the more responsibilities you take on the more time you need to step back and plan things out a bit. You can actually keep falling behind if you don’t step back and get a little strategic. It is actually a productivity strategy. Listen to this week’s episode on making time to think strategically.

Know if your change is working or not

To know if your change is working or not, you’ll need to get clear on your target. If the target is too big, it’s hard to collect data so we tend to focus on stories. You can’t adapt and make changes if you only focus on stories. Objective measures are needed to know if your target is actually the right target. If it’s too narrow, then you only look in one place, one data set: the number of participants or attendance. If you do that then you might miss some of the other clues.

Know if the change is working or not

If you are changing something and you want to know if it's working or not, the place to start is making sure the target that you’re aiming for is clear. Without that clarity, you can't know if you’re hitting it or not. With that clarity, you can notice the clues that tell you you’re on the right track. How do I know if an idea for improving our program is working or not? We've got some great testimonials, but that's about it. What else should we be looking for?