Great Leaders Lead Themselves Well

When we focus on our strengths and our blindspots and hone our key human skills (communication, self-awareness, emotional intelligence, negotiation, etc.), we become more impactful.

Read on to reflect alongside Melissa about how you can best set yourself up for success as a leader.

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Let’s Be Bold

When you hear a similar message three times in short succession, it's time to listen.

When you think about the idea of making one bold ask each week or one bold move a day, what's your first reaction?

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Hitting the Brakes

As we go through our lives, we need to be able to apply brakes whether they are the physical brakes on our cars or bikes or zip line harness or if they’re the choices that we make. But, we need to think through why we’re applying the brakes. Is it common sense or is it a fear of what could happen response?

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What’s Your Jenga Game Strategy?

You may be asking why I’ve picked this as a blog topic, but for me it is aligned to our game of life. We have to choose the piece to take a risk on and sometimes it will be a solid choice because our foundation is solid; but inevitably at some point, we will pick the wrong piece to pull, and the tower will topple.

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Holding on Tight

I love riding over the Annapolis Bay Bridge as the view is beautiful.  However, I do not love actually being the driver.  For whatever reason, this bridge (and several others I've come across) scare me so what do I do...I hold on really tight to the steering wheel.  When I do this, my whole body tenses up, my overall stress level goes up, I start worrying if I'll really make it to the end of the bridge, and I slow down. 

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