When trying to create a culture of performance, most leaders focus on under-performers. Humanized Leaders flips the script, focusing energy on the results they want to create.

Do you feel better when you are productive? Remember those days when you made your to-do list the night before, color coded your calendar and checked off every item. But more often than not, life gets in the way, and your desire for productivity is thwarted.

Have you ever been halfway through a meeting and realize that you’ve been completely tuned out? Of course you have. We all have. But what about tuning out in a situation that is much more important.

Has this ever happened to you? You get an email from your boss that reads something like this: Hey Steph. Can you come to my office for a second? Thanks. – Boss

It’s important to celebrate wins at work. It shows that you value the achievements of your team members, and can be a great way to incentivize employees. But there’s another benefit to celebrating wins that may not be immediately obvious.

I must tell you; I thought I was going to dodge the Covid bullet. Almost three years in and I had avoided the virus. It’s a tricky bugger, because come Christmas eve I was relegated to five days in a 20″ by 17″ room.

If today could begin with a brand new intention, “own your impact”, one can only imagine the power that might be harnessed; the energy that might be reclaimed.

The singular people-connecting skill that any leader must master is listening, but not just any kind of listening. Leaders must listen with their whole being.

Crises bring out the human side of leaders, and the Great Resignation has been no exception. As leaders consider what it might mean to embrace a more human-centric way of leading people.