Let’s face it, when you live, work, write and dream leadership it can be very difficult to be a great follower. But even those of us who have a passion for leadership (I believe that includes all of you, my dear readers!) know there are times when we are simply meant to follow. Enter the Tango. And […]
Raise your hand if you’ve ever: 1. Interviewed for a job you wanted passionately 2. Received your dream job and found yourself wanting a plan to help you succeed in the role I suspect just about every one of you raised your hand, which means you’re all in luck! This Tuesday evening at Leadership Chat on Twitter […]
Steve Woodruff and I couldn’t be happier to be welcoming our leadership colleague Mike Henry Sr. as this week’s Leadership Chat Guest Host. Mike is the Founder and fearless leader of the Lead Change Group, of which I am a member. The group’s mission is to “Encourage, Energize and Equip one another to apply character-based […]
Margie Clayman, my fellow blogger and Twitter friend who I have come to respect tremendously, mentioned in her response to my post earlier this week entitled, “Leadership Development: Mastering the Powerful Art of Praise,” that how we accept praise as leaders is worth close examination. I couldn’t agree with her more. How we accept praise […]
Every once in a while Steve Woodruff and I choose a topic for Leadership Chat, which takes place every Tuesday evening at 8:00 pm Eastern Time on Twitter and has grown dramatically over the past few months, that is based on recent, real-world events. Such is the case this week as we tackle, “Hubris and […]
“Can you truly inspire people to follow you if you don’t believe in something bigger than self?” This question was posed to me and Tobey Deys by my friend Mack Collier during this week’s Leadership Chat, at which we focused on blazing our own leadership trails while ensuring these new trails are meant for – […]
It happens to all of us. We get overwhelmed with our “to-do” lists and even the opportunities that come our way and begin to lose focus, causing us to start moving in circles and eventually to get stuck. If you’ve ever uttered words similar to, “I’m so busy my head is spinning…and I’m not getting […]
February 10th by Lisa Petrilli Readers: This blog post originally appeared at LeadSwag as part of their Women’s Leadership Month series. I wanted to share it with each of you… ~ This is the 3rd post in the Women’s Leadership Month series, and I couldn’t be more honored to be a part of it! In […]
By Lisa Petrilli Steve Woodruff and I decided to focus on the topic of “the difficult follower” at this week’s #LeadershipChat on February 1st. In preparation for the topic, and in thinking about my own personal experiences both leading and following, I of course had to look in the mirror and ask myself when I’d been a […]
By Lisa Petrilli I happened upon Michael Lee Stallard and Howard Behar’s post entitled, “Overcoming Leadership Myopia” on Friday and it resonated with me in such a relevant, honest way that I pleaded with my #LeadershipChat co-host to make it the focus of our December 14th #LeadershipChat. Fortunately, he loved the post too. Thus, our topic tomorrow […]