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Questions-Based Action Leadership

Questions-Based Action Leadership

October 11, 2016 | No Comments

The more I practice leadership, think about leadership, read about leadership, and hear people talk about leaders they admire, the clearer it becomes. To help facilitate your ability to lead and coach, it is important for you to Know yourself; Know the learning, behavioral, and motivational styles, among others, of those you lead; Use methods that are developmentally appropriate for your students, players, and employees to facilitate and maximize learning; Employ methods to articulate where it is you want your team, class, or organization to go, and develop a plan to get there; Develop a culture that continuously assesses and
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Collaboration – Get to the End-in-Mind Together

Collaboration – Get to the End-in-Mind Together

August 7, 2016 | 1 Comment

In my last article, the focus was on the importance of the coach, educator, or employer creating an environment that engages individual students, players, or employees in such a way that they can construct new knowledge and develop new skills that helps them get to the end we have-in-mind (i.e., goals, outcomes, etc). Designing your pathways to your end-in-mind using activities and approaches that promote questioning, thinking, and learning from one another will build a sense of intellectual engagement and camaraderie that will have positive effects on your group’s achievement. In addition, the process of interacting with other people requires
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Change Your Mindset to Them

Change Your Mindset to Them

December 20, 2015 | No Comments

If we invoke the K.I.S.S—Keep It Simple Stupid—principle, a simple mindset change at two levels—individual and organizational—can make a huge difference in our effectiveness as leaders, coaches, and educators. The first and most fundamental mindset change begins with the recognition that leading is not about you. It is about your ability to create an environment to maximize the abilities of those whom you are leading and their potential to be successful. The second level of the mindset shift focuses on the organization. At this level, the emphasis is on communication to create a common vision, which is a critical element
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Change Your Focus

Change Your Focus

September 3, 2015 | 1 Comment

It has become increasingly clear to me that for any of us to maximize our effectiveness as a coach, leader, or educator, we need to change our mindset to focus on the needs of those we lead. As John C. Maxwell, a nationally recognized author on leadership, points out, “Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.” Changing our focus away from ourselves and towards others simplifies the challenge of leadership. Drew Dudley’s 2010 TEDx Talk in Toronto highlighted the capacity that every person has to be a leader, and influence and change
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