Why Service-Based Leadership Is One of the Most Effective Leadership Skills
Service-based leadership is about making work easier, clearer, and more human for the people around you. Service-based leaders inspire the most effort, loyalty, and follow-through.They aren’t the loudest or most dominant. They’re the ones who consistently remove friction for their teams — who listen, anticipate obstacles, and step in to help without making it about […]
How Leadership Presence Brings Your Values to Life — Especially on the Hard Days
Leadership presence is tested when pressure rises, emotions run high, and people look to you for steadiness. Key Takeaways When things are calm, leadership presence is easy. Most leaders show up as their best selves. Values feel clear. Decisions feel rational. Teams feel steady. But leadership isn’t measured by the easy days. Who you are […]
A Simple Exercise to Define Your Signature Leadership Values
Leaders make their biggest leaps when they plan who they want to be when things get hard — and dedicate themselves to those values. Key Takeaways Why defining leadership values matters: Leadership presence isn’t charisma, confidence, or polish. It’s the steadiness that comes from knowing what you stand for and being able to return to […]
Why Every Leader Needs a Signature Leadership Style (and Why Values Are Your North Star)
When things get tough, great leaders lead from values and get results. Skills like managing deadlines, resolving conflict, running meetings, and inspiring teams all matter. But the leaders people remember — the ones who build trust, inspire commitment, and deliver results — anchor those skills in something deeper. They lead with a signature leadership style, […]
Employee Engagement vs Employee Satisfaction: What’s the Difference and Why It Matters for Your Business
When comparing employee engagement vs employee satisfaction, which should you measure? If your company is still relying on employee satisfaction surveys, it may be time to shift toward measuring employee engagement — the metric most strongly linked to performance, retention, and profitability. For more than a century, researchers have tried to understand what helps employees […]
Effective Feedback: How Great Managers Help Their Teams Grow
If you want to give your team effective feedback that actually helps them grow, focus on making it future-forward, specific, and frequent. Most of us have negative experiences with feedback—criticism that felt harsh, vague, or demotivating. No wonder so many managers hesitate to offer it. But here’s the good news: research shows that when people […]
How to Get Promoted: 5 Traps That Hold High Performers Back
Thinking about how to get promoted often brings out our best instincts — ambition, motivation, and the desire to grow. But for high performers, it can also activate habits that quietly work against promotion. Many people assume advancement comes from working harder or speaking up more. In reality, leaders are promoted for how they make […]
The Magic of Empathy and Gratitude | My Gratitude Project Day 30
This is the end of My Gratitude Project for 2025, but of course, there is no end to gratitude and empathy. These are enduring goals, skills—and universal human needs. So this year, consider empathy and gratitude as gifts you can bestow. In this giving season, they can be the most treasured of all. The result […]
Preparing for Empathy: 5 Questions Before You Begin | My Gratitude Project Day 29
As you would with any other important conversation, take time to prepare for empathy. Preparing for empathy will help you improve your results. If you want to use empathy tactically to influence somone, take time to prepare. Empathy as a skill is not to be taken lightly. Here are 5 questions to prepare yourself before […]