Leading Self Calendar says: "6 am: Gym" Body & brain say: "6 am: Sleep. Hit snooze." One Idea: Support your energy You know what you should do. Move your body. Sleep enough. Make time for people who fill you up. Fuel yourself with something other than coffee and snacks. And yet, there is a gap between what you know and what you do. You hold your team together all day, work through lunch, and realize at 6 pm that you've barely had any water. (And no, coffee doesn't count as hydration.) This...
14 days ago • 2 min read
Practice Lab From the Toolkit The 1-Minute Reset "Wow, that meeting was tiring!" Sound familiar? We know how to recharge almost everything else in our lives. One Idea: Charging Your Inner Battery Every day, I charge my phone, sometimes twice a day. My laptop stays plugged in so I can work. I charge my watch, even my car. Yet for years, I had no system for recharging my own energy. A few years back, with 5 a.m. calls and workdays running until 6 p.m., I needed to figure out how to sustain my...
20 days ago • 1 min read
Strategic Reset Leading Forward See things clearly & kindly "I don't even remember what happened last month. Things have been so crazy busy, and I feel so behind." One Idea: Balanced Check In As the end of the month approaches, I tend to feel both dread and excitement. I feel dread when my brain fixates on everything I haven't done yet: "There's so little time. Why does it go by so fast?!" In that moment, I'm trapped in my brain's negativity bias, which overemphasizes anything that isn't the...
25 days ago • 3 min read
Pressure Practice Navigating Challenges The Hidden Pressure Lucie, I rated myself a 3 out of 7 in confidence. But according to my 360 feedback, many people see me as fully confident. They rated me a 7. How can that be? One Idea: The Hidden Confidence Gap I see this often during 360-feedback debriefs. There can be a significant gap between how leaders experience themselves internally and how others perceive them from the outside. To others, they may appear calm, collected and focused on...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Leading Others Who is right? Lucie, I keep arguing with this person on my team and we cannot find common ground. What do I do? One Idea: Judgment vs. Curiosity If you've ever felt your jaw tighten while talking to a team member, a leader, or honestly anyone in your life, this one is for you. Last week we focused on leading ourselves: checking in on how we feel, how we want to feel, and what we need to do to feel better. (Catch up on that issue here.) Every second week of the month, we shift...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Leading Self How do you feel? Lucie, the breakthrough I still remember from our coaching was when you asked me, "How do you want to feel?" Till then, I didn't really think I could choose my feelings. - a client, a few years after we started working together How have you felt in the last hour? Some form of pleasant emotion Neutral or I even don't know! Some form of stressful, unpleasant emotion One Idea: You have a choice If you asked me two hours ago how I felt, my answer would be "stressed"....
about 2 months ago • 3 min read