Category: Education

What Does a High EQ Look Like?

Here are 9 characteristics shared by Dr. Travis Bradburry, author of Emotional Intelligence 2.0, and president of TalentSmart : 1. Being positive is key. No one wants to work with an Eeyore. Even in the most stressful situations, a leader with a high EQ will stand out because of his or her ability to Continue Reading

Love in the Workplace? Yes!

 Ryan Niemiec, Education Director @ VIA Institute on Character. Here’s a conversation I often have with managers, CEOs, and executive coaches who take a look at the 24 character strengths in the VIA classification and say this: Manager: “I see how the strengths of perseverance and self-regulation are important at work because employees can learn to work Continue Reading

LEAD Breakfast Celebrated its 1st Anniversary – Woo Hoo!!!!

“The Promise” is a two-way street, as The Academy: asks Alumni to give back to the community; to improve quality of life, and promises to provide opportunities for Leadership (development), Stewardship (service), Friendship (relationships). We provide learning opportunities through our LEAD Over programming, which includes our monthly LEAD Breakfast! We launched LEAD Breakfast in Continue Reading

What’s Your Leadership Brand?

Personal branding is serious business these days. Ever since the publication of Tom Peters’ “The Brand Called You” in Fast Company, personal branding has gone from a radical idea to a career basic. But how much thought have you given to building your leadership brand? Plenty of people build a professional Continue Reading

Leaders and Managers Uncloaked…

The distinctions of leadership and management can be described briefly with ten easy pieces of contrast: Leaders create and communicate the vision; managers follow the vision. Leaders lead people; managers manage processes. Leaders take the first step; managers take the next step. Leaders ask “why” and “what;” managers ask “how” and Continue Reading

What Every New Leader Needs to Know

Awakening your team to a new form of energy. Environments where employees work by the book, laden with rules and regulations about what can’t be done, rather than what could be done, are not attractive to people full of spirit seeking to make their mark in the world. In such places, Continue Reading

20 Leadership Quotes Worthy of Your Consideration…

20 Leadership Quotes Worthy of Your Consideration: “The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.” — Ken Blanchard “Done is better than perfect.” — Sheryl Sandberg “Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine.” — Peter Sondergaard, Senior Vice President, Gartner “The world Continue Reading

Leadership is Communicating. . .

 

Grant Career Center’s LEAD Ready-1Iclass Zooms…!

Student LEADers experienced what it’s like to not have a clear Vision … after dealing with some frustration and confusion, and through trial and error, these students “Zoomed” to the end goal.  This interactive exercise demonstrated how a clear vision reduces frustration and increases the ability for “followers” to get to the goal Continue Reading

Five Proven Practices of Exemplary Leaders…

The Leadership Challenge: Five proven Practices of Exemplary Leadership -two commitments per practice: The Five Practices are one cornerstone of LCA’s leader development products

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