Our jobs as leaders are becoming more complex and that requires a mindset shift when it comes to leadership. In order to be successful as leaders, we need to build up paradoxical leadership skills.

Paradoxical leadership is a leader’s ability to adopt an AND mindset instead of an EITHER/OR mindset and flex their behavior based on the situation at hand. Situational Leadership is one type of Paradoxical leadership skill. Learn more about other paradoxical leadership skills in this article.

“If you want people to behave differently, the environment needs to change.” – Laslo Bock.

Out of the many change management models that I’ve seen, I have found the Six Sources of Influence to be one of the best change management frameworks available. In this blog I'll introduce this model using a story about my blender.

Collaborative leadership is like Chinese checkers. Command and control leadership is like chess.
Collaborative leadership breaks down silos, increases engagement, and is more agile. Read this article to learn how to become a more collaborative leader.

Vigilant Resilience is important to sustain change. Leaders that have vigilant resilience display realistic optimism.

When challenges arise, as they will in most cases, leaders with vigilant resilience are the ones who will be able to rally their teams together to weather through the storm.

Did you know there was a formula for trust? And why does that even matter?

When we are talking about something intangible, like trust, it is helpful to understand what components build up trust and what can break it down. Otherwise, it becomes difficult to pinpoint what we need to do to nurture trust and what we need to avoid doing in order not to lose trust.

When leaders are not afraid to take risks and are also able to analyze pitfalls, they can lead with mindful courage.

This paradox is very important for leaders, especially in the early stages of a new venture.

This is part two of Excellence = Quality x Acceptance and we pick up where we left off last time.

In this article we will unpack three useful change management frameworks that help increase acceptance. The larger your project or initiative, the more important this becomes.

Change management is an important tool for leaders as well as project managers.

Excellence = Quality x Acceptance
This is a useful framework to remember whenever you are about to start a major initiative or project.

What is your management style?
An effective manager is an effective coach. A manager’s coaching mindset is comprised of two pairs of traits: their ability to be enforcing and express warmth/empathy.

What are the two paradoxical traits related to communication? They are the ability to be frank as well as diplomatic, Harrison Assessments refers to this as respectful candor. When someone is able to be both frank and diplomatic, this is a true strength.

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