Dr Rob’s Thoughts on Managing the Coronavirus It’s about your people. Do all you can do to be sure your employees can take care of themselves. If at all possible, keep paychecks flowing. Do the right things now and trust that your employees and customers will appreciate it later. Trust the experts, even if it seems we are overreacting now. Communicate fully and frequently to your employees and customers. Be a positive role model by taking good care of yourself. …
Once again, we face crisis. In unbalanced times such as these, it’s more important than ever to practice principles of strong, steady leadership. The mark of a great leader is the ability to lead in all kinds of circumstances. In the toughest of times, leaders need to stand on a rock-solid set of core values. Here are my five principals of balanced leadership in unbalanced times: 1. You know who you are… You practice self-reflection You recognize and manage your blind …
One of the biggest challenges people face today is the struggle between trying to take care of self when they have the responsibility of taking care of others. While this dilemma is wide spread among everybody, it is most acute to two groups of people: women who tend to be the primary care givers in our society; and leaders who have the responsibility for the people they lead. Of course, this means this dilemma may be most acute for women …
Dr. Wayne Baker, my colleague at The Ross School of Business will be presenting tomorrow 2/25/2020 at TechTown as part of my Leaders Connect (Detroit) series. He will be discussing and signing his fabulous new best selling book, All You Have To Do Is Ask: How to Master the Important Skill for Success. One of my favorite parts of the book is the simple assessment that you can do yourself to identify which of these giving and receiving profiles you …
Based on my work with hundreds of people faced with adversity, I have found that resiliency is the most important factor in their success. Here are the seven most important attributes of resilient people: Resilient people carefully decide what they can control and what they can’t. Resilient people know there are always other solutions and they find ways to improvise and stay flexible. Resilient people recognize their fear, but do what they have to do anyway. Resilient people are realistically …
Austin Hatch: An Inspiration Last week at my Leaders Connect Breakfast, I had the honor to host one of my former students, Austin Hatch. As most of you know, Austin is an incredible young man who, after spending over 2 months in a coma following a plane crash, graduated from University of Michigan. Amazingly, this was the second plane crash that he had survived. When he came out of his coma, not only did he have to face the loss …