Posts by Robin Pou

As a leader, do you experience interruptions – unplanned events that take your focus off what you really need to accomplish? How should you think about the inevitable interruptions and your reaction to them?

In your day-to-day, is having fun mere wishful thinking or an actual priority? Find out the positive impact of playing and laughter at work in this week’s newsletter.

While leaders have direct reports, they also have people to whom they are accountable. Leaders report to someone: the CEO, the board of directors, shareholders or customers. They are followers too.

While leaders have direct reports, they also have people to whom they are accountable. Leaders report to someone: the CEO, the board of directors, shareholders or customers. They are followers too.

Leadership is more than most can handle. Thank goodness for our team. If not for the team, who would you be leading? Leaders who rely on their team grow their organizations more effectively.

Change Management – the process of preparing oneself and others for the successful reaction to or implementation of change.

Hurry Sickness: a behavior pattern (not a diagnosable condition) characterized by chronic rushing and anxiousness and an overwhelming, persistent sense of urgency — even when there’s no need to be moving so fast.

Over the past two years, we’ve received many encouraging responses to the Confident Leader. In this week’s edition, we’ve chosen to highlight three of these responses.

Our staff went deep into The Confident Leader archives to select the newsletter that was most impactful to them. The newsletters Alex and Chrissy selected are practical and still relevant almost two years after they were originally published. One even has a downloadable cheat sheet! I hope you enjoy them as much as they did.