Achieved Strategies

So today we conclude the month long leadership blog series Wake Up & Shake it Up.

Throughout the month guest bloggers provided insights into how you can shake up your leadership style.  But more specifically, shake up your leadership style to reconnect with and inspire your employees and restore optimism back in the workplace.  Thank you to all the guest bloggers. You contributed amazing ideas and suggestions.

This wasn’t a “let’s all hug and all will be fine” blog series.  We provided insights to shake up your leadership style and to wake up from relying on familiar, even routine, leadership actions that may not inspire people who help to create the results you want/need.  Business is always changing. You, too, need to adjust with the changes.

The undercurrent to all the blog posts was that we must relate to each other as people, not as a means to increase profit or remove costs.  Even difficult decisions like layoffs can be executed and be done with a people-centered approach.

My ultimate dream for this blog series is that you find inspiration in one of the blog posts and “get some on you.” That’s my attempt to be poetic instead of saying apply the idea that inspired you.

Indeed we live in extraordinary times. With so much crap going on in our world, there are equal if not greater amounts of fantastic things people are doing to make a difference.

We know you are out there making a difference. Please continue to do so. And do so with the thought and action that you are never done learning about who you are as a leader.

Be bold.

Be brilliant.

Remember, who you’re being will influence how others view themselves. You have that much influence.

Focus on how you show up for your people and help them realize how great they are.

Epilogue

We had great conversations with many of the blog posts in this series.

So, we are taking the insights shared plus the blog posts and creating a special eBook.

In about a week or so we’ll have a way for you to sign up and receive the complimentary eBook automatically.  In the meantime, if you missed one of the blog posts, go here to read, or reread your favorites.  Feel free to comment.  You could be in the eBook.