Leadership Step By Step – Exercise #15: The Method

Leadership Step By Step – Exercise #15: The Method

This week’s exercise from Leadership Step By Step was to build on the previous exercise (“The Model”) and to try to influence your own environment, beliefs, and emotions in order to elicit a rewarding feeling from something that you’d like to improve at, but haven’t been able to. For this exercise, Josh asked us to form groups to brainstorm new […]

Leadership Step By Step – Exercise #14: The Model

Leadership Step By Step – Exercise #14: The Model

This week’s exercise from Josh’s Leadership Step By Step was called The Model, and the assignment was to watch a few of Josh’s videos on The Model, which showed me a system to begin to analyze my own emotional processes surrounding something I’d like to improve at, then try to do the analysis for a couple things I want to […]

TSL:SFN – The Insect Epiphany w/ Barrett Klein

TSL:SFN – The Insect Epiphany w/ Barrett Klein

Barrett Klein investigates mysteries of sleep in societies of insects, creates entomo-art, and is ever on the search for curious connections that bind our lives with our six-legged allies. Barrett studied entomology at Cornell University and the University of Arizona, fabricated natural history exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History, worked with honeybees for his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin, […]

Leadership Step By Step – Exercise #12: Feedforward

Leadership Step By Step – Exercise #12: Feedforward

Exercise 12 of Leadership Step By Step was “Feedforward”, an exercise developed by Marshall Goldsmith to ask for advice instead of asking someone to evaluate something you did in the past (AKA “feedback”). In short, the exercise asks you to pick something you want to improve at, ask for advice using a specific script, ask some clarifying questions if necessary […]

Leadership Step By Step – Exercise #11: Avoid Imposing Values

Leadership Step By Step – Exercise #11: Avoid Imposing Values

We’re at the halfway point of Leadership Step By Step’s exercises! This week’s exercise was to avoid imposing values on other people. What exactly does that entail? To start, avoid using the terms “good”, “bad”, “right”, and “wrong”, but with a stretch goal of also avoiding “should”, “appropriate”, “better”, and “worse”, among a few others. Not forever, but just for […]

Leadership Step By Step – Exercise #10: No, But, However

Leadership Step By Step – Exercise #10: No, But, However

For the tenth exercise of Leadership Step By Step, I had a deceivingly simple task: do not start responses with the words “no”, “but”, or “however.” The goal of which was to become more self-aware of how you interact with people and specifically, whether you are communicating in a way that is detrimental to relationship-building. What does a good conversation […]

Leadership Step By Step – Exercise #8: Adopt a New Belief

Leadership Step By Step – Exercise #8: Adopt a New Belief

For the next exercise, I had to adopt a new belief, using the book’s methodology: identify a negative emotion that comes up frequently, name it, identify the belief that brings rise to it, then identify the new emotion you want to replace it with, and come up with a replacement belief to think of everytime that negative emotion comes up. […]

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