Empathy is a key trait for good leaders. But as we all continue to adjust after 18+ months of COVID, it’s important to protect yourself against “emotional contagion.” In her October 18 “Your Best Next Move” video, Bobbie LaPorte shares a few tips to help you handle the heavy cognitive load that can come from taking on all of your employees’ re-entry stress.
Read moreYour Best Next Move
Your Best Next Move blog posts explore various principles of positive psychology and how to choose what to do when uncertainty strikes.
How to Turn Reorganization Into Opportunity for My Team
If you’re feeling “reorg” fatigue, you’re not alone. In today’s constantly changing organizational landscape, it seems like the one thing you can count on is more internal change. Those curveballs WILL keep coming! To help you get ready, watch Bobbie LaPorte’s October 11 “Your Best Next Move” video and learn how to turn reorganization into an opportunity for your team.
Read moreManaging Curveballs with Grace and Acceptance
Bobbie LaPorte is back with the video camera turned on for her October 4 “Your Best Next Move” video, where she talks about managing curveballs and dealing with unexpected situations (like literally falling on her face days before a book photo shoot!) with acceptance and grace.
Read moreHow to Approach Mentors and Sponsors to Grow Your Career
Every successful person has had help. This week's tip is about how to approach mentors and sponsors to grow your career and success along with two examples of how you can find people, key people, significant people, either inside your company or outside your company to help you advance your career.
Read moreHow Can I Keep My Star Performers From Leaving?
Each week as I speak with my clients, I hear the same issue over and over – in this post-Covid environment, “how can I keep my star performers from leaving?”
Sound familiar? We have all heard about the “Turnover Tsunami” and the “Great Resignation” that was coming post-Covid. Many employers didn’t believe it would happen, or at least they hoped it wouldn’t. But the evidence is here.
Read moreRegain Confidence When Continually Being Hit with Curveballs
As a leader, how can you regain your confidence when you're continually hit with curveballs that threaten to undermine your success? In her September 13 “Your Best Next Move” video, Bobbie LaPorte the last of the three “shifts” that all leaders need to make right now: how to regain confidence even when life keeps throwing us curveballs. In today’s uncertain world, confidence can no longer be based on our functional knowledge or past accomplishments. Instead, it’s all about self-awareness—and building on the leadership strengths we already have to use our talents in new ways.
Read moreHow can I approach unexpected situations from a possibilities perspective?
Don’t get stuck on “pause”! In her September 7 “Your Best Next Move” video, Bobbie LaPorte addresses the second of three mindset shifts that all leaders need to make to deal with unexpected situations and navigate through uncertainty. Instead of worrying about how to minimize risk or mourning what is lost, it’s time to see where the possibilities lie—and move forward.
Read moreHow Can I Improve My Decision-Making Under Uncertainty?
How can you improve your decision-making under uncertainty knowing that you may be headed down a path you have never been before? With a new model. As research for her upcoming leadership book on navigating uncertainty, Bobbie LaPorte has worked with many executives who are struggling to confidently make decisions when there is no clear path forward. In her August 30 “Your Next Best Move” video, Bobbie shares some simple questions leaders can ask to improve their decision-making—and take action to keep moving forward.
Read moreWhat If My Boss Does Not Support Me?
Unfortunately, most of our managers fall short of the ideal mentor-leader-advocate we all want (and deserve). Bobbie LaPorte answers the question, "what if my boss does not support me?"
Read moreInsights for Exhausted Leaders
Having met with so many exhausted leaders lately, Bobbie LaPorte shares a comforting poem in her August 16 “Your Best Next Move” video. The poem, “For One Who Is Exhausted, a Blessing” by Irish poet John O’Donohue, provides a few moments of comfort and reflection as well as valuable insights for exhausted leaders
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