Lessons in Leadership
Lynda Perring, former CEO and current Director of Programs of Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Orange County, a non-profit organization that trains community volunteers to serve as powerful mentors and advocates for our community’s most severely abused, abandoned and neglected children recently held a round table leadership discussion with emerging leaders at Taller San Jose. […]
Employees Just Wanna Have Fun
Does fun really matter? You bet. All work and no play, makes for grumpy, disengaged employees.\n\nLean teams with limited resources and tight schedules, still need to make time to come together for the purpose of getting to know each other.\n \n Do you think bringing chocolate chip cookies into a meeting, makes a difference? Absolutely. […]
Critical Skills for Workforce 2020
The Institute for the Future teamed up with the University of Phoenix Research Institute to identify the following skills, in light of several current economic drivers, that will be needed to thrive in the workplace in the year 2020. \n\n \n Sense-making: Determining the deeper meaning or significance of what’s being expresssed \n Social intelligence: […]
The California STEM Summit 2011
J9 Leading Solutions has been invited to participate in the second annual California STEM Summit: Sparking Innovation in STEM at UC Davis Conference Center, hosted by The California STEM Learning Network and Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tom Tortakason and sponsored by Chevron. Education, policy and business leaders throughout California are joining together to:\n \n Learn about critical […]
Moneyball
Cinema has given us many great examples of leadership. Moneyball is the latest.\n\nIn my favorite scene, Brad Pitt playing Billy Beane, Oakland A’s, General Manager, sitting at a table with his scouts trying to figure out what to do now that three of his star players were poached. It was business as usual, but the […]
How to tell a Good Story
I am officially in the Andy Goodman fan club after attending his “Telling Your Story” workshop hosted by OneOC. Storytelling is an integral part of our history, identity, how we remember and why we give. It is part of the human experience to tell stories. The problem he reminded us is the way we tell […]
E – ABCs of Leadership
\nAs a leader you need a lot of energy.\n\nOrganizations require even more from their workforces, but working longer and harder does not cut it any longer. It merely results in an exhausted, disengaged and sick employees which leads to turnover and lost productivity.\n\nUnlike time which is limited. Energy is renewable.\n\nAre you currently working 12 hour […]
ABCs of Leadership – Delegation
\nAre you guilty of trying to do it all? I certainly am. But a true leader should not be the one to do it all.\n\nI have had people tell me, delegation can feel like it is more trouble than it is worth but the bottom line is that by delegating effectively you can massively increase […]
ABCs of Leadership – Care
\n\nPerhaps above all a leader needs to care. We’ve all heard the expression “they don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”\n\nIn fact, workers rate a caring boss even higher than money or perks. People join organizations, but they leave bosses.\n\nGallup’s research has shown how long that employee stays and […]
ABCs of Leadership – A Way of Being
\n\nThere are many leaders in organizations busy “doing” things and sometimes they think just because they have a “to do” list a mile long this means they are leading. \n\nIn fact, it’s often the people that are good at “doing” things, that are promoted into roles that require leadership but often they are not prepared […]