Category: Professionally Speaking

Artful possibilities

Artful possibilities?

How?

Build with questions, common sense, and paradox.

Why?

To figure out what your “get-to-do” at work is.

Art is getting to do more than you have to do.

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Favorite Leader activity

Nuclear reactor looking parking garage design
Medical City at Lake Nona, Florida. Couple days ago. Client meeting.

Another voice-dictated post here, while on today’s 8-mile walk:

The favorite leader activity revolves around a couple of steps: Ask every participant to recall their favorite leader. This can be a family member, teacher, coach, colleague, work boss, any of that sort of thing. Then they self-reflect and write some notes about why that person is their favorite leader. The next step is to find a partner at a different table and each person takes three minutes to share who their favorite leader is, and why. Then everybody goes back to their original chair and we debrief: What were some of the things that you heard or said? Note: it wouldn’t hurt to flip chart all the traits and characteristics the participants share. The next step would be to ask each participant to brainstorm what it would take for their direct reports to someday in the future pick them as their favorite leader from their experience at Glacier Park Lodge during their summer of 2025. As a bonus, either at the tail end of this activity or perhaps at the end of whatever the session is (half-day, full-day, multi-day) do the 45-day commitment letter activity.

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What an executive resource always does

.think .differently keynote slide
The answer when i’m asked, “What’s my superpower?”

What an executive resource always does:

Always asks why is your vision important.

Always asks how bad do you want it, and why.

Always asks what are you willing to do to achieve it.

Always uses questions, common sense, and paradox.

Always uses personal stories, activities, and discussion.

Always has fun.

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What can only you do?

one of Jeff noel's blog posts
Retiring 10 years early from Disney to start my own business (in 2014) eventually revealed to me this insight.

“We don’t do these things because we’re Disney, we’re Disney because we do these things.” –jungle jeff

Balance is a myth. Says who?

“i don’t do these things because i’m lucky. i’m lucky because i do these things.’ -jungle jeff

When you create space for yourself to spend all your time doing what only you can do, ‘Magic’ happens.

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