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Fairways to Leadership
Thanks to Kelsey, Ivan, Craig and Spencer for attending the inaugural class of the "Fairways to Leadership" (formerly OpportunityDriver) program. The goal is to help aspiring and existing business leaders use the game of golf as a source of professional empowerment by learning how to play and how to talk golf. The program was created in response to research describing golf as a source of disempowerment in top management, especially among women and persons of color. Connect with me if you’re interested in getting involved.
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Why Building Resilience Begins with the Heart
Along with many coaches and leaders I’ve been obsessed with the idea of resilience over these last few weeks. How to build it. How to reinforce it. How to access it when I’ve had a bad day. I read all the articles and took all the advice to create a rigorous resilience practice. With the full orchestra soundtrack of “Les Misérables” playing in my head, one arm raised in defiance, I walk every day, drink healthy smoothies every morning and regularly chant with my yoga teacher. Each activity helping me overcome this thing no matter what it takes.
And then I talked to one of the wisest women I know, my first coach. I turned to her for advice about sharing resilience practices in this difficult time. She said, “Hmm, let me read you the definition of resilience.” “The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness; the ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape.” Wait, what!? (Cue Les Mis soundtrack screeching to a halt.) The idea of springing back to the way things were, stopped me in my tracks. Six weeks into this pandemic, it is very clear that springing back to normal is just not going to happen.
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What the Corona Virus Can Teach Us About Leading in Crisis
“Mom, did you hear the news? It’s here.” While I briefly thought my daughter was referring to my Amazon Prime order, it quickly became clear that she was sharing the news that there were now three confirmed cases of Covid19 in our county and the Governor had declared a state of emergency. We began to wonder out loud whether to go into the office or telework and my daughter started an inventory of the medicine cabinet supplies. I imagine that my neighbors, colleagues and friends were all engaged in similar conversations that day. The threat was no longer theoretical, it was here.
Personal safety is a basic human need stacked just behind air, water and food on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. The certainty of safety requires validation and reinforcement and commands the focus of our attention when threatened either for ourselves, or those we love. As the virus spreads, each of us is recalibrating how to regain certainty in our safety. The challenge for us as leaders is to balance the pull to reestablish confidence in security while navigating media reports, work demands and the real safety concerns of our teams.
