Lee Ellis's Blog, page 33
May 10, 2024
Captured by Love Wisdom for Today, May 10, 2024
Captured by Love Quote ��� ���Smitty: ���Humor kept all the guys��� morale alive during our captivity. Humor also keeps Louise and me connected. We���re very self-entertaining; our shared experiences and inside jokes help keep the spark of love alive.��� Louise: ���He just cracks me up all the time!������ ��� Carlyle ���Smitty��� & Louise Harris
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May 9, 2024
Free Tool – 7 Core Behaviors for Creating Leadership Boundaries
Need some clear ethical boundaries for your family, team or organization? Core behavioral reminders for making daily decisions in your personal and professional life? Multiple thousands of leaders are using these 7 core behaviors to lead and work with honor.
For example, article #3 says, ���Keep your word and your commitments. Ask for relief sooner than later if necessary.���
Please download your free copy of The Honor Code, and please share with others.�� ��������
#courage #leadership #accountability #employeeengagement #leadershipbehavior #teamdevelopment #buildingculture
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May 8, 2024
Coaching Clip – How to Be Soft and Tough as a Leader
In this month���s 5-minute Leading with Honor Coaching clip, Lee recalls great examples of leaders who could balance the opposing qualities that define honorable leadership. Then he offers some advice to help you balance it in your own leadership, too. ����
Read the entire coaching blog on this topic – “How to Be Soft and Tough as a Leader”
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Purchase these award-winning books from Lee Ellis and FreedomStar Media in one package. Leading with Honor outlines the 14 leadership lessons learned in the POW camps of Vietnam. Then, Engage with Honor applies many of the original leadership lessons into a practical Courageous Accountability Model. (includes 1 ��� Leading with Honor Hardcover book, 1 ��� Engage with Honor Softcover book)
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Online Team Development Training
With over 20 years training and coaching leaders, we know that the most effective development comes in community. And our mission has shifted toward leaders developing their people���the most efficient way���growing and taking others with them. The challenge is that many leaders don���t feel qualified to conduct training, and it���s expensive.
With this Courageous Accountability online development course, we���ve created an online platform using the latest, real-time collaborative learning technology to ensure the best learning environment possible.
Request a Quote to have your team experience the Courageous Accountability Development Course.
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May 5, 2024
Leadership History Lesson for May 5th
On this day in leadership history in 1862, the Battle of Puebla took place. It is celebrated as Cinco de Mayo Day.
What���s the leadership lesson? Honorable leaders look for ways to celebrate with their team and have fun, regardless of the size or magnitude of the celebration. Incorporate celebration into your daily leadership, or delegate someone to organize it for you!
Battle of Puebla – Wikipedia
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May 3, 2024
Leading with Honor Wisdom for Today, May 3, 2024
���When leaders have the confidence to be compassionate, supportive, and humble, then you have the paradoxical balance when it���s time to be more tough, competitive, and results driven.��� ��� Lee Ellis
#courage #leadership #accountability #employeeengagement #leadershipbehavior #teamdevelopment #buildingculture #keynotespeaker
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May 1, 2024
Coaching Blog – 3 Steps to Balancing Leadership Paradox
Paradox. Some leaders get it immediately, while others need more time to discover its power.
In a recent blog and coaching video, we discussed the need to balance Results and Relationship. Doing that typically requires using very different talents to adapt our leadership styles to be effective. This month let���s broaden that perspective and look at a list of seemingly opposite leadership (and life) talents. We typically call them paradoxes.
Most of us are aware that sometimes we face opposite choices and often one seems easier and better, or perhaps just more favorable than the other. There are easy paradoxical choices like whether to have sweet tea or unsweet tea or reading or watching TV. But in managing our life and leadership situations, we must learn to courageously adapt in more important issues and situations. Leaders must see things as they are and respond appropriately.
Paradox in the POW Experience
In the POW camps, we all had to face a tough choice on a regular basis���cooperate with our enemy or remain faithful to the military Code of Conduct and take punishment or torture.
Famous leadership author Jim Collins became close friends with Admiral Stockdale, a senior Naval officer and one of my leaders in the Hanoi POW camps. In his writing, Collins often highlighted what he called the Stockdale Paradox, and Leading with Honor�� uses it often in our leadership courses ���
��� You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end
���which you can never afford to lose���
with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts
of your current reality, whatever they might be.���
In the POW camps, we always believed that someday we would go home, but our commitment was to ���Resist, Survive, and Return with Honor.��� These were somewhat of a paradox, because at times it seemed like we could not do both.
Paradox in Today���s Leadership
As a leader or teammate (or spouse, parent, or neighbor), we must be committed to adapt our natural talents and personality tendencies, because there are many situations in which the choice we should make is somewhat opposite of our talents or natural response. And fair warning���it���s probably not going to be easy to adapt. This is the challenge of leading and operating in paradox.
My new coaching clip expands on this idea. Please watch, and then continue reading the blog below ���
I���m a visual person, so I often think of this as the need to walk both sides of the street���at the same time. The reality is that to be an effective leader we must learn to adapt our behaviors and responses to near opposite situations to respond effectively.
Look at this paradoxical list of somewhat opposite needs in leadership, and you will see how challenging it is to be a great leader ���
Here are three very basic steps that can help you live and operate successfully in a life of paradox ���
Be situationally aware of paradoxes. They���re not going away. It���s reality. You are going to have to walk both sides of the street to recognize, understand, and deal with the paradoxes that leaders face. Review the paradox list and reflect on it. Consider situations in your world that you may need to view from a different perspective. Think of it as the old TV option of ���Picture in Picture.��� You focus on one and then you switch to focus on the other; for example, focus on the team and then one of the individuals on the team. Alternately, focus on the big, long-term vision for your organization and then switch back to the practical needs of the week. This will help you lead so much more effectively.Coach yourself to adapt appropriately. When you take time to reflect, you are much more likely to consider your responsibilities and the talents of your people. Their insights and abilities can help you adapt successfully. Be confident and humble to get their input and know that in many situations their insights and actions are going to help you shine in the light of paradox and walk both sides of the street.
Believe in Yourself
Great leaders are situationally aware and live comfortably in paradox���able to mentally pivot quickly to care for their people while getting the job done.
“When leaders have the confidence to be compassionate, supportive, and humble, then they have the paradoxical balance when it���s time to be more tough, competitive, and results driven.��� [Tweet This]
The Georgia Bulldogs head football coach Kirby Smart is a great example. He is extremely competitive and yet supportive of his coaches and his peers. He is tough when he chews those players out right on the spot, and then a few minutes later when they correct back and do great, he meets them coming off the field with a big hug.
UGA Coach Kirby Smart with his family.
Not everyone can easily be a hugger, but we all need to be able to adapt to be kind and tough, a leader and a servant, and quick and patient. Let���s all try to become our head (and heart) coach by learning to live more effectively in the many paradoxes of life and leadership. It will be a tremendous investment that brings a never-ending payoff.
VADM James Bond Stockdale as quoted in Good to Great by Jim Collins
Save 30% when you Buy the Two-Book Honor Package!
Purchase these award-winning books from Lee Ellis and FreedomStar Media in one package. Leading with Honor outlines the 14 leadership lessons learned in the POW camps of Vietnam. Then, Engage with Honor applies many of the original leadership lessons into a practical Courageous Accountability Model. (includes 1 ��� Leading with Honor Hardcover book, 1 ��� Engage with Honor Softcover book)
Purchase Your Honor Package in the Leading with Honor Store
Purchase Your Honor Package on Amazon.com
Online Team Development Training
With over 20 years training and coaching leaders, we know that the most effective development comes in community. And our mission has shifted toward leaders developing their people���the most efficient way���growing and taking others with them. The challenge is that many leaders don���t feel qualified to conduct training, and it���s expensive.
With this Courageous Accountability online development course, we���ve created an online platform using the latest, real-time collaborative learning technology to ensure the best learning environment possible.
Request a Quote to have your team experience the Courageous Accountability Development Course.
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April 30, 2024
Leading with Honor Speaking
I have the honor of speaking around the country to audiences with an inspiring message of courage, resilience, teamwork, and leadership from my career as a former Vietnam POW, military officer and leader, and leadership author and coach.
If you know of a group or organization that would benefit from my message, please inquire, or refer us ��� leadingwithhonor.com/speaking.
#courage #leadership #accountability #employeeengagement #leadershipbehavior #teamdevelopment #buildingculture #keynotespeaker
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April 28, 2024
Leadership History Lesson for April 28th
On this day in leadership history in 1985, the largest sandcastle in the world was completed near St. Petersburg, FL. It was four stories tall. But the new record didn’t last long. Another group of sand sculptors built a taller structure at Treasure Island the following year.
What���s the leadership lesson? Honorable leaders can make their mark in the world through a variety of actions and decisions���whether small, temporary, personal, strategic, or long-term. It can all have a positive impact on others.
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April 26, 2024
Captured by Love Wisdom for Today, April 26, 2024
Captured by Love Quote ��� ���Our lives are constantly changing. There are many possible responses to change. When change is faced with courage, the result is growth.��� ��� Wes & Faye Schierman
POWromance.com��#Romance #Lovestory #Military #marriagegoals #Resilience #POW50th #VietnamPOW #Courage #Passion #CapturedbyLove #LoveLessons
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April 25, 2024
Latest Leadership Recommendation from Lee���s Bookshelf ��� ���The Spirit to Soar”
The Latest Leadership Recommendation from Lee���s Bookshelf ��� ���The Spirit to Soar: Inspiring Life Lessons and Values for a Victorious Life��� by Jim Petersen, PhD ��� In this true story of orphan and POW, Lt Col Barry B. Bridger USAF (Ret), author Jim Petterson extracts the unique perspective and life lessons from Barry���s experiences that other people can read and apply in their own lives.
Please check it out on the Goodreads website; and if you���ve already read it, please post your review below.
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