Leveraging Leadership
with Amy Burkett
I hope you know how much I love sharing my leadership experience with you. Because you read my blog weekly, I have to keep learning in order to have content worthy of your time. Last week I came acro...
Last week, I shared a perspective from bestselling author Anne Grady that makes a positive impact on our leadership when we actually execute it.Â
Don’t try to motivate harder because that’s not the p...
I was doing some research this week and came across an incredible author I had somehow never read before. Anne Grady, author of EvolvAbility:Growing Forward When Life Goes Sideways. She’s a resilience...
Last week, an experienced leader reached out to me. She was shaken. After more than a decade of delivering results, growing her department, and building a strong team, her new supervisor described her...
There are thousands of leadership books, podcasts, and seminars promising the secret to building a high-performing team. Some talk strategy. Others focus on culture. A few will convince you it’s all a...
I’m kicking today’s blog off with story time. Â
Once upon a time, long, long ago, I worked with an extraordinary director.
His production skills were remarkable. His standards were incredibly high. ...
Last week we explored the five foundational beliefs behind Trust & Inspire leadership by Stephen Covey.
As a recap those beliefs are:
- People have greatness inside them.
- Leadership is stewardship....
Today we’re digging into the differences between command-and-control leadership and trust and inspire. Before you discount the concept and say command and control is outdated nobody uses that anymore...
Love Is a Leadership Practice Not Just a Valentine’s Day Idea. Research shows it's the most underrated leadership skill and one many are uncomfortable with demonstrating at work. I hope today's blog c...
Here's the hard truth: Alignment doesn’t fall apart overnight—and neither does trust.
It erodes quietly. Through mixed messages. Shifting priorities. Decisions made with good intent but little contex...
So much of what we do as leaders lives in subtlety which makes recognizing problems early really hard. Most alignment problems don’t announce themselves loudly.
They don’t start with missed deadline...
If you’re leading right now, let’s name the obvious:
Priorities don’t just shift occasionally they shift constantly.
New information. New pressure. New crisis. New directive. It feels like we’re alw...
