Letter from the Founder
Welcome to the sixty-seventh issue of CEE News!
Our VP of Client Engagement prepares quarterly reports on the impact of our marketing efforts. She starts with an At A Glance summary of our website performance, email subscriptions, and social media impact. Next, she drills down into each category to compare quarter-over-quarter growth and what content gained the most impact and why. She wraps the reports up with recommendations about what we should start, continue, and stop doing. One of the recommendations she made while reviewing the Q4 2020 report was to write more posts of lists, such as the wildly popular “13 Rules of Leadership by Colin Powell”.
Her reasoning was perfectly valid. Lists bring order to chaos. They help us better recall content. They’re easy to scan and less taxing on the brain. “Plus,” she added, “Google’s algorithms promote lists, and that makes it more likely that your posts will be promoted by Google.” I have mad respect for my colleague, but as I reflected on her feedback, I thought about why I’d been writing more reflective posts recently. Here’s my attempt to come up with three reasons why I haven’t written more list posts lately.
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Letter from the Founder
Welcome to the sixty-sixth issue of CEE News!
At Center for Executive Excellence, our mission is to take you from what is to what is possible. Whether we’re helping leaders implement culture transformation, helping teams build trust, or coaching individual executives to accelerate professional growth, our goal is to offer our expertise to effect positive change. That’s our wheelhouse. That’s our safe space.
Last year, we stepped out of our safe space because the collective what is (if you will) was broken. To move from what is to what is possible, we must stand up for one another as members of the human race.
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Letter from the Founder
Welcome to the sixty-fifth issue of CEE News!
Early last year, a colleague sent me an article from the Harvard Business Review entitled, That Discomfort You’re Feeling is Grief. The article was published on March 23, 2020. That was just 5 days after Governor Gavin Newsom issued America’s first mandatory order for Californians to shelter in place due to the growing COVID-19 pandemic that had claimed just under 10,000 lives in the U.S.
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Letter from the Founder
Welcome to the sixty-fourth issue of CEE News!
I learned so much this year. As much as I desperately want 2020 to be over – and as much as I know that the restrictions of living and working during a pandemic will not miraculously disappear in 2021 – I truly value the new skills, insights, and relationships that I built this year. Capturing some of those here feels like the best use of this treasured space we’ve shared together each month.
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Letter from the Founder
Welcome to the sixty-third issue of CEE News!
Most of you reading this have probably already voted. I took my ballot to our local library and dropped it in the box after having it vetted by two officious citizens my senior. Once we’ve taken the steps as responsible citizens, we need to take the steps as responsible leaders to help our teams get through what will likely be unresolved for the unforeseeable future. How? Set up a post-election listening session for your team. Why? Because your team can’t be fully present to address what’s on their To-Do lists when anxiety, nervousness, stress, and perhaps feeling like an unjust loser is on their minds.
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Letter from the Founder
Welcome to the sixty-second issue of CEE News!
I write this message with a full heart and a sense of control that I haven’t felt for several months. We hosted the 5th annual (and first ever virtual) Re:Imagine Leadership Summit two weeks ago. Since we were not confined to a single place on a single day, moving the Summit to an online platform yielded opportunities that we’d never taken advantage of before. And taking advantage of those opportunities continue to pay off well after the Summit was adjourned.
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