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April 10, 2024
Three Quick Tools to Conquer Leadership Doubt and Fear
The reality is that every human being has doubts and fears. These emotions can override our logic, behavior, and choices, taking us away from our character and commitments. Living and leading with honor is the most critical battle that we face in life, especially in leadership.
As a leadership coach, consultant, and trainer for more than 25 years, I can see clearly that courage is the central challenge for every human being��� and especially leaders. Maintaining the standards and commitment to character, integrity, and ethics can be challenging for everyone else���especially leaders. They must make tough decisions���hard because deep inside they have doubts and fears.
Leaders also must learn to adapt from their natural wiring/behavior to gain skills that will enable them to achieve both good results and good relationships. Courage is the foundation, the anchor, the core, the driving energy that is fundamental to being a good person and especially a good leader.
Many people are visual learners and use a picture to help them understand and remember key points. Here is a model and a couple of tools that we have found most helpful over the last 25 years.
The Leadership Attributes Model. You can see below that courage is the driving energy that enables the essential foundations of leadership. The Honor Code. It has seven articles, and courage is the one at the center of the model. We intentionally moved it there a few years ago because it became so clear that it is required to live out all the other articles. The Courage Challenge Card. This small coaching card provides a practical model and method for fulfilling the commitment to ���Lean into the pain of your doubts and fears to do what you know is right, even when it doesn���t feel natural or safe.���
The Leadership Attributes model mentioned above is shown here. and you can download the other two visual models at www.leadingwithhonor.com/tools. Please share this post with others.
You can also read the entire article on this topic – “Confront Your Leadership Doubts and Fears”
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April 9, 2024
Today is National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day
Today is National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day, and we honor the more than 500,000 American warriors captured while protecting our way of life. We pay tribute to these patriots for their unwavering and unrelenting spirit.
More specifically, this is a day to honor captured wartime service members who eventually came home. It is observed annually on April 9th, and officially commemorates the surrender of between 60,000 and 80,000 US and Filipino service members to the Imperial Japanese army at the Bataan Peninsula, Philippines in 1942.
Learn more on the Veteran.com Community website.
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April 7, 2024
Leadership History Lesson for April 7th
On this day in leadership history in 1970, John Wayne won his first and only Oscar for his role in “True Grit.” He had been in over 200 films. What���s the leadership lesson? Even if honorable leaders never win any accolades or awards, their still work to live with integrity, diligence, and resilience every day.
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April 5, 2024
Leading with Honor Wisdom for Today, April 5, 2024
���Courage is the foundation, the anchor, the core, the driving energy that is fundamental to being a good person and especially a good leader.��� ��� Lee Ellis
Courage, leadership, Vietnam POW, accountability, lwh, employee engagement, leadership behavior, team development, keynote speaker, building culture
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April 4, 2024
Coaching Clip ��� How to Cultivate a Courageous Mindset
In this month���s 4-minute Leading with Honor Coaching clip, Lee offers some practical advice and tools to infuse a spirit of courage in your daily leadership and decision-making. It���s the glue that holds all other leadership attributes together! ��
Read the entire coaching blog on this topic – “Confront Your Leadership Doubts and Fears”
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 2, 2024
Coaching Article – Confront Your Leadership Doubts and Fears
The reality is that every human being has doubts and fears. These emotions can override our logic, behavior, and choices, taking us away from our character and commitments. Living and leading with honor is the most critical battle that we face in life, especially in leadership. The solution to this problem is Courage.
That���s why courage is at the core of all the books I���ve written and every speech I���ve made on leadership���and it���s the most common subject in our blogs and coaching videos over the last twelve years. It is also central to the leadership models that our team has developed.
My new coaching clip expands on this idea. Please watch, and then continue reading the blog below ���
Ingrained Courage
Courage came into my world primarily as I was going through combat training for deployment to the war in Vietnam in the mid-1960s. It was not just about flying the F-4 Phantom; we also had to go through Survival School ��� now called SERE school (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape). You can see by these words that it was preparation for a very frightening situation.
Lee Ellis hero shot with an F4C Phantom at Danang 366 TFW in 1973
Fighter pilots are confident and typically assume that ���it���s not going to happen to me,��� but on my 68th combat mission in that war, my aircraft blew up and I parachuted into enemy territory and was captured by the militia immediately. Suddenly, SERE came to the center of my life. Doubts and fears came to the forefront, and I knew I had to grow in courage.
As the youngest and most junior ranking guy in most of my cells, I was blessed to have courageous leaders. I admired them and wanted to be more like them in their resistance and resilience. Life in the POW camps was hard, and we all suffered, but over time we knew it was a blessing���we had all grown in courage and that enabled us to return with honor.
Courage is the Core Challenge
Yes, it was crucial back then, but as a leadership coach, consultant, and trainer for more than 25 years, I can see clearly that courage is the central challenge for every human being��� and especially leaders. Maintaining the standards and commitment to character, integrity, and ethics can be challenging for everyone else���especially leaders. They must make tough decisions���hard because deep inside they have doubts and fears.
Leaders also must learn to adapt from their natural wiring/behavior to gain skills that will enable them to achieve both good results and good relationships.
���Courage is the foundation, the anchor, the core, the driving energy that is fundamental to being a good person and especially a good leader.��� [Tweet This]
Many people are visual learners and use a picture to help them understand and remember key points. Here is a model and a couple of tools that we have found most helpful over the last 25 years.
The Leadership Attributes Model. You can see below that courage is the driving energy that enables the essential foundations of leadership.
The Honor Code. It has seven articles, and courage is the one at the center of the model. We intentionally moved it there a few years ago because it became so clear that it is required to live out all the other articles. Download a copy.
The Courage Challenge Card. This small coaching card provides a practical model and method for fulfilling the commitment to ���Lean into the pain of your doubts and fears to do what you know is right, even when it doesn���t feel natural or safe.��� Download a copy.
The Leadership Attributes model mentioned above is shown here and you can download the other two visual models.
The River of Fear
In Gus Lee���s terrific book, Courage: The Backbone of Leadership, he graphically shows a similar concept of how our character, ethics, morals, and values must cross the ���River of Fear��� to live up to our commitments���with courage being the driving force to get us across. Without it our character will sink.
This month, I want to encourage you to pause every day to reflect on the challenges you are facing as you work to lead and live with honor. Use this blog and the coaching video that goes with it to help yourself grow at work and at home. The return on your investment will be high and immortal.
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Related Coaching Blogs:
Jan 2024 Coaching Blog (Character/Integrity) ��� What���s the Foundation for All Leadership Decisions? Feb 2024 Coaching Blog (Results and Relationships) ��� The Not-So-Secret Way to Better Leadership Balance Mar 2024 Coaching Blog (Emotional Intelligence) ��� What Leadership Intelligence Trait is Needed Right Now?Editor���s note: we���re excited to provide a series of coaching blogs for 2024 that focus on the leadership models that we have developed over the past 25 years. We hope that they���re helpful in your leadership.
Courage: The Backbone of Leadership, The Character Matrix is shown on pages 40-41, 118
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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Gen Alpha problems linked to parenting styles, tech
We at Leading with Honor research emerging trends related to leadership, and this article from NewsNation Now notes the challenges that Generation Alpha (people born or who will be born between 2010 and 2025) are facing and how leaders can help them.
Here’s the article on NewsNation Now.
What do you think? What are some suggestions that you have to help them? Please post your comments below.
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March 31, 2024
Leadership History Lesson for March 31st
On this day in leadership history in 2004, Google Inc. announced that it would be introducing a free e-mail service called Gmail. Today, they have more than 1.8 billion active users worldwide as of 2024.
What���s the leadership lesson? What���s something of value that you can give away to help others? Generosity is a hallmark of an honorable leader.
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March 29, 2024
Today is National Vietnam Veterans Day – See Inside
On March 29th, it is officially observed as National Vietnam War Veterans Day. The first Vietnam Veterans Day, declared by President Richard Nixon in 1974, coincided with the one-year anniversary of the withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from Vietnam on March 29, 1973.
On National Vietnam War Veterans Day, we want to ensure that every veteran, family, caregiver, and survivor impacted by the difficult years in Vietnam feels our Nation’s gratitude for their sacrifice. Every service member of the Vietnam generation should know that their sacrifices mattered and that their service made a difference. The names etched in The Wall at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial remind us of our loved ones who gave their all and never came home. To the families, caregivers, and survivors of the more than 58,000 service members whose names are memorialized in the black granite, we pledge to never forget the eternal sacrifice of your loved ones and what you have sacrificed for the nation.
To the families of the over 1,500 service members who remain missing and unaccounted for, know that our Nation’s efforts to bring them home will never stop���And to each of the 6 million Vietnam War era veterans who are with us today, we honor your service and all that you have done for our Nation.
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March 28, 2024
Leading with Honor FAQ – Graduating Class
Leading with Honor FAQ ���
“The latest graduating class will become future leaders in life and work. What specific recommendations do you have for them as they embark on this lifetime of leadership?���
Lee Ellis��� Answer ���
���Be clear about your principles of integrity and character and battle to live accordingly. It will take courage, so learn to lean into your doubts and fears to do what you know is right. Know yourself, accept yourself, and be authentic. Be humble so you can always be learning and growing. Be confident so you can be authentic. The most important attributes of a good leader come from a healthy individual���someone who is real, authentic, and humble yet self-confident.
If you spend time worrying about yourself or your competition, rather than just doing your job really well, that���s not healthy. Self-doubt, feelings of insufficiency and false pride cause a person to be self-focused, which undermines one���s judgment and performance.
Know yourself, and know what you���re committed to, and don���t be afraid to keep your commitments and do what you know is honorable. If you do that, you���re probably going to do well. Check out LeadingWithHonor.com for more.���
#Classof2024 #graduation #wisdom #leadership
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