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July/August 2009
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Vol 2, Issue 3 |
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Leadership Central
Thoughts to accelerate your success |
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| Greetings! |
Spring is over and we are now into summer. So what have been your biggest accomplishments and disappointments for the first half of the year?
One of Executive Velocity's accomplishments since our last newsletter is the launch of our new blog "Leadership Insights from Executive Velocity". You can join the live feed at http://executivevelocity.typepad.com . The feed will provide you additional articles, book reviews, leadership tools, and my latest tweets from my twitter account which is
http://twitter.com/ExecVelocity.
My biggest disappointment over the past six months is my inability to make a sustainable change when it comes to organization. I have had fits and starts, yet I have not made organizing my office a habit. We all have challenges like this. Whether it is losing weight, stopping procrastination, or thinking before we speak, all change is a challenge. The key is not to give up but to reflect on what worked and didn't work and make adjustments to your plan to change.
One thing that has helped me to make a change in the past is to make it very public. So I now am proclaiming to all of you that I will make it a habit by the next newsletter in September to have an organized office!
What is your commitment for the next three months? And how do you plan on accomplishing it?
To success,
Beth Armknecht Miller
Executive Coach
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Your Personal Vision Statement: The Beginning of Your
Future
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When coaching executives and business leaders, I often discover that although their company has a vision statement, they don't have their own personal vision statement. So what's the big problem of not having your own personal vision statement? What I have found time and again, especially with older leaders, was that those who did not have their own personal vision for the future, found themselves at a point in their career completely dissatisfied with their life. Those who were clear about their personal vision for their future felt a lot more complete as a person and were a lot more successful.
So if you would like to be happier and more successful, take some quiet time to create your own personal vision statement. Read more...
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Leadership: How Important Is 'Integrity'?
In Today's Business World Is Integrity an Afterthought?
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I don't know about you, but reading and hearing about leaders who have either lost, or never had integrity, has become all too common these days. It makes us believe that perhaps there are no leaders with integrity.
As someone who tries to view the glass as half-full, I think it is the media who has created this misperception that today's business leaders are void of integrity, morals, and ethics, because every day I work with executives and business owners who have very strong values and integrity. Yet, the stories that our media chooses to disseminate never seem to promote the leaders who live and breathe integrity. Read more...
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Managing and Working with Negative People
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We've all been there. You find yourself working on an important project and one of your team members, co-workers, or even the manager is an eternal pessimist. I like to call people like this, Eeyore. You remember Eeyore, the gloomy donkey from Winnie the Pooh. The words and phrases you often hear from pessimists are: "it won't work", "I can't", "why?" Not only can these people de-motivate others, they can also quickly derail a great project. Read more...
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About Executive Velocity
Executive Velocity (EV) is a leadership development assessment and coaching firm committed to ensuring the success of top-level executives and business leaders of emerging companies in the professional services, technology, and healthcare sectors. EV leaders maintain certifications in such assessment tools as Myers-Briggs and Hogan. For more information, visit our website at: http://executive-velocity.com | |
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