Leadership Step By Step – Exercise #17: Meaningful Connection

Leadership Step By Step – Exercise #17: Meaningful Connection

For exercise 17 of Leadership Step By Step, I had to have 10 conversations using a script designed to encourage meaningful connection with others. In short, the conversation goes as follows: I found the formula to be simple and yet very effective! Asking someone about what they enjoy doing is great, but often the conversation just ends there with a […]

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 […]

My Third Pillar of Sustainability – Connection

My Third Pillar of Sustainability – Connection

We covered my three pillars of sustainability, went into detail on how I use the lens of health and the lens of happiness to shape my behavior, and now it’s time for the final pillar and lens: connection.  In a way, I feel like connection is the pillar that really ties everything together – I can be at the top […]

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 […]

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