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How to focus on the present moment
How to cultivate empathy and understanding towards others
How to set personal and professional goals
Unafraid
Fear causes people to freeze, take flight, or fight. It's not that leaders aren't afraid, but that they fear the greater danger of doing nothing.
Leaders speak to the real danger, that of leaving the threat unaddressed and unopposed. Courage means taking action and confronting the challenge directly, giving others the courage to do the same.
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Purpose and Meaning
People find purpose and meaning when they understand why the tasks are important and what they mean to their identity. Identity leaders provide that to people through their communication.
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Action-Oriented
Leadership sets a vision of a better future state by communicating continuously. The communication provides an action plan, stating what must be done, how it must be done, and when it must be completed.
Communication that is action-oriented provides direction and help push back against th...
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Communication
A critical task of a leader is communication. It is better to err on the side of communicating more frequently than under-communicating because leaders thought everyone knows what is expected of them. During a crisis, under-communicating can be disastrous.
The content of the communication ...
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Positive and Optimistic
The voice of leadership, while not ignoring genuine threats, should sound positive and optimistic, believing you will succeed despite obstacles.
A cause is only lost when you believe it is, and even then, only when you give up. The task of leadership is to persevere until you achieve your ...
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Empowering
External voices you hear on the television and social channels that sew fear and doubt as well as disempowering people can become internal voices if you let them.
The leader's voice has to drown out the negative and disempowering voices and communicate the idea that you can act and will su...
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The floodlight gains access to the whiteboard to accomplish an urgent goal. Under acute threat or stress, your alerting system temporarily blocks access to working memory to ensure that your brain’s action systems prioritize basic survival behaviors (fight, flight, freeze) over any other goals or...
Fear Paralyzes Action
The most common reaction in a fear situation is the attitude of, “I can’t!”
This is the fear of failure that stops us from taking action. It often shuts down the brain and causes us to revert to the “fight-or-flight” reaction.
Know your brain
Our response to difficult conversations is neurologically the same response to fear: the fight, flight, or freeze response.
When you feel that internal escalation, think, “Oh this is really interesting, what’s happening is my reptilian brain is taking over. Just that aware...
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