leadership – Page 2 – Lynne Wyatts

Are you a boss or a leader?

Are you a boss or a leader? Lots of the clients that I work with supervise others. Principals guide their schools. Teachers manage their students. Managers direct workers. Owners of businesses supervise their employees. Here’s an important question for anyone in any of these roles: Are you a boss or a leader? A boss…

5 things leaders do differently

5 Things Great Leaders Do Differently Great leaders don’t just lead others well. They begin by leading themselves well and then go on to teach and inspire others to do the same. Whether you are a solopreneur or a team leader, the success of your business depends on leading yourself well first. You are a…

what is your leadership style?

Leadership Style “I’m not really a people person,” a leader at one of my DISC training sessions told me. A coworker was surprised. Many of us have the expectation that anyone in a leadership role must be a D personality style (dominant, decisive, doer, determined) or an I personality style (inspiring, influential, interactive). In…

3 Ways to Bond your Team During a Crisis

Bond Your Team During a Crisis Are you leading a team, a business group or staff of an organization during these unusual and troubled times? Maybe you work for an organization and have a group that you are in charge of. Or perhaps you are in direct sales and have a team that you lead.…

Broken Business Models

I talk with a lot of service based business owners with broken business models. Here are common themes: stressed out can’t find time for themselves overworked with too much too do can’t find the clients they want working in lots of directions but getting no results. Do you see yourself in that picture? Many of…

Are you good enough?

Worried you aren’t good enough? You’ve finally identified your passion, your talent, your skill… You know how you want to serve others But… What if you aren’t good enough? What if you don’t know everything you need to know? What if you need more training, degrees, certifications or experience? I often hear this concern from clients…

How to cope with challenging choices

Challenging Choices A funny thing happened at a party that I recently attended. The invitation included instructions to back into the driveway in order to create enough space for all the cars. I rode to the party with a friend and on the way we discussed the “back in” issue. Neither of us had ever…

10 secrets of genuinely confident people

How to Develop the Confidence You Want Being confident is not a gift. It’s not built into your DNA It’s a step by step learned process Genuinely confident people understand that being confident is not something that descends upon you, fully formed. They didn’t wake up one morning and discover they were suddenly…

7 Things Entrepreneurs Will Understand

What have you learned as an entrepreneur? Traveling in the business world as an entrepreneur can be scary, rewarding and exciting at the same time. Ever since leaving my twenty year career as a school counselor and stepping boldly (and timidly at the same time) into the world of business, I have learned and grown…

Are you being the leader of your life?

Leader or Follower? Have you followed someone else’s lead so long you don’t even think about leading your own life? Do you make your own decisions or do you lean on someone else to make the important ones? Do you worry that you’ll make all the wrong decisions? Want to be a Leader not a…