Is Your Organization Primed for Future Success?
Ryan Gottfredson2019-06-18T09:59:56-07:00From about 2000 until 2013, Microsoft’s market capitalization hung around 200 billion and its
Mindsets: The Key to Personal Development
Ryan Gottfredson2019-06-11T07:03:10-07:00If you were to Google “how to be an effective ______________________” (fill in the
How Do We Improve Mindsets?
Ryan Gottfredson2019-06-06T11:27:31-07:00When I work with leaders to develop their leadership, I first: Demonstrate that mindsets
Becoming a More Positive Influence: Heal Thyself and Lead from Heart, not Hurt!
Ryan Gottfredson2019-05-02T11:22:42-07:00Learn what Brené Brown has to say about: 1. What prevents leaders from being more effective, 2. How it is critical for leaders to become more self-aware in order to become more effective, and 3. What is required of leaders to actually move the needle on their effectiveness.
Becoming a More Positive Influence: Show Appreciation
Ryan Gottfredson2019-04-25T11:50:12-07:00The difference between recognition and appreciation can mean the difference between being a weak positive influence and a strong positive influence on those you lead.
Becoming a More Positive Influence: Improve the Lenses You Use to See the World
Ryan Gottfredson2019-04-25T11:50:13-07:00How we see the situations we encounter shape our ability to be a positive influence, someone that others want to follow.
Becoming a More Positive Influence: Be Someone Others Want to Follow
Ryan Gottfredson2019-04-25T11:50:13-07:00Being an effective leader requires that we become someone others want to follow, developing and improving ourselves such that we become someone that others admire and want to follow, not because of the position we hold, but because of the person we are.
Becoming a More Positive Influence: Investigate and Improve Your Why
Ryan Gottfredson2019-04-25T11:53:41-07:00Your goal orientation plays a driving role in your effectiveness and success as a person, parent, employee, leader, etc. Thus, if you do want to be effective and successful, it is important to question your “why.” What goal orientation do you have? If you have anything but a mastery orientation you are surely putting a limit to how effective and successful you can be.
Becoming a More Positive Influence: Be Intellectually Humble
Ryan Gottfredson2019-04-25T11:50:13-07:00“The people who make the most positive difference in the world…are the ones who are able to discern when they need to change and then be brave enough to do so even when the cost is high
Becoming a More Positive Influence: Enhance Your Emotional Intelligence
Ryan Gottfredson2019-04-25T11:50:14-07:00According to Travis Bradberry & Jean Greaves, the authors of Emotional Intelligence 2.0, they found that across over 100,000 senior executives (including 1,000 CEOs), managers, and line employees, the people in organizations that have the lowest EQ are those in the C-suite.