Lee Ellis's Blog, page 37
March 14, 2024
Celebrating Lee���s POW Release Today
Every year, I stop and intentionally celebrate the anniversary of regaining freedom from my POW experience, and here���s some silent footage during my release. My group of POWs in Vietnam stepped forward on March 14, 1973 and ever since the lock has always been on the inside of the door. Thanking God again today for my safe return.
Purchase any of my books to learn more about my POW experience.
#courage #leadership #accountability #teamdevelopment #keynotespeaker #capturedbylove #vietnampow
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March 12, 2024
Finalist Award for ‘Captured by Love’
Honored to have ���Captured by Love��� as a finalist in @ForewordReviews 2023 Indies List in the War & Military Category!
���We are thrilled that Captured by Love has been recognized by this prestigious awards program that selects the best in the independent publishing industry. It just confirms the power and impact of these 20 couples��� stories and the mark that they have made in history. Our goal is to keep these stories alive for future generations, and Foreword Reviews is graciously helping in this regard,��� said Lee Ellis, Founder and President of FreedomStar Media and co-author of Captured by Love.
Read More about the award on the Foreword Reviews website.
Purchase your copy of Captured by Love, read more about the 20 couples, read and watch recent media, and more.
#Romance #Lovestory #Military #marriagegoals #Resilience #POW50th #VietnamPOW #Courage #Passion #CapturedbyLove #LoveLessons
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March 10, 2024
This day in leadership history – Theodore Roosevelt
On this day in leadership history, watch this 4-minute clip to discover how Theodore Roosevelt used his personal energy and charisma to bring unprecedented power to the presidency. He was an American politician, statesman, conservationist, naturalist, and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909.
#courage #leadership #accountability
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March 8, 2024
Leading with Honor Wisdom for Today, March 8, 2024
���Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom.��� – Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
#courage #leadership #accountability #employeeengagement #leadershipbehavior #teamdevelopment #buildingculture #keynotespeaker
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March 7, 2024
Coaching Clip ��� How to Manage and Coach Emotional Team Members
In this month���s 5-minute Leading with Honor Coaching clip, Lee gives his experience and examples on a specific tactic to help coach yourself and others on managing your emotions. And this liberating method works in both personal and professional situations!
Read the entire blog on this topic – “What Leadership Intelligence Trait is Needed Right Now?”
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)
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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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March 5, 2024
How to Press In and Press Through as Leaders
Free Infographic – You can do it! We all have those moments where we have to ���press in and press through��� a situation and emerge on the other side with honor — smarter, stronger, and more grateful. We���ve created the free ���Resilience Checklist��� infographic to help pinpoint some of the 12 areas that you can strengthen in your personal development ���
Visit the Resilience page to view it.
#courage #leadership #accountability #employeeengagement #leadershipbehavior #teamdevelopment #buildingculture
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Coaching Article – What Leadership Intelligence Trait is Needed Right Now?
���Between stimulus and response, there is a space.
In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and freedom.���
– Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning [Tweet This]
In the last couple of blogs and coaching videos, we have been working our way through our Leadership Attributes Model
. The quote mentioned above by Dr. Viktor Frankl, a psychiatrist who suffered and survived at the concentration camps during World War II, summarizes well the next level of the model called Emotional Intelligence:��
My new coaching clip expands on this idea. Please watch, and then continue reading the blog below ���
When EQ Was New
When we designed this model in the late 1990���s, I knew nothing about Emotional Intelligence (more commonly known as EQ), so it wasn���t included. Then in 2001, I got really interested in the subject and read and listened to a fantastic new book at the time called Primal Leadership: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence. After that study, it was so clear that honorable leadership required EQ that we added it to our model. It���s the only change to our model in the last 20 years.
Natural Emotions are Hardwired
Through positive or negative experiences, we all are emotionally stimulated multiple times every day. When that happens, it goes to the Amygdala, the emotional part of the brain which is 2-4x faster than the rational thinking (Prefrontal Neo-cortex), part of the brain.
When something happens that emotionally hits us with doubt or fear, it���s easy to have an Amygdala Hijack���the immediate Fight or Flight response. Most of us have done that once or twice in our lives, and some leaders use it to scare folks into doing what they want them to do. But to be a person of positive influence, we need to learn to manage our responses to emotions, which is really the goal of EQ.
We all have emotions, positive and negative, and they are embedded in our system. We can���t leave them at home (as some leaders erroneously direct their staff or team to do). So, because of the potentially serious consequences of not managing them, we need to dig into this important leadership and relationship concept.
The simplest way of understanding EQ starts with Awareness and Response.����
We need to be aware of our emotions and those of others and then manage our response. The problem is that the Amygdala reacts so quickly that typically we respond without any mental processing, and it���s been that way for a lifetime for most of us. So, we must learn to coach ourselves to pause and reflect so that we can process the situation and respond appropriately.
Adapting our behavior is a requirement in these instances, and adaptation also becomes a universal thread throughout all steps in the Leadership Attributes Model. Last month, we also discussed adapting to balance your natural tilt towards Results or Relationships behaviors. The key is to learn to adapt and achieve more of a balance so that you���re a more effective leader and more valuable to others.
For EQ, we use a model that is amazingly simple and very powerful as shown here.
(Source: Primal Leadership, Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence by Goleman, Boyatzis & McKee)
It has four quadrants: Awareness and Response are on the left side and on the top side are Self and Others. We must gain self-awareness and then manage our response to be effective. Also, gain others-awareness and then manage our response so that we can respond in a positive way. That requires us to pause and reflect on what is happening so we can adapt to the most appropriate response.
This sounds very simple, but typically it���s not easy. The reality is that our emotions are very strong, so we must coach ourselves to learn to pause and reflect. You may remember the old way���long before EQ arrived���when wise people learned to count to 10 before responding to emotions.
Work on Your EQ
So, study these graphics more closely, and work on your awareness of your emotions���both yours and others. Then, slow down your response to emotional situations to be positive and effective. ��We highly recommend you use this blog and these graphics to discuss EQ with someone at work and at home. It���s very likely that each of you will be able to let the cat out of the bag and share some good examples of bad EQ.
Additionally, to help you apply and experience the power of EQ in your own life and leadership we���ve provided a free download for your use. Remember, the world needs your mature, strong, honorable responses in critical leadership situations���and we believe you can do it.
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Jan 2024 Coaching Blog ��� What���s the Foundation for All Leadership Decisions?
Feb 2024 Coaching Blog ��� The Not-So-Secret Way to Better Leadership Balance
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.
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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March 3, 2024
Leadership History Lesson for March 3rd
On this day in leadership history in 1872, the U.S. Congress authorized the creation of Yellowstone National Park. It was the world’s first national park.
What���s the leadership lesson? In the fast pace and changes of daily life, remember the values and principles that we need to protect and preserve as honorable leaders. Some things should never change.
Yellowstone National Park – Wikipedia
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March 1, 2024
Captured by Love Wisdom for Today, March 1, 2024
Captured by Love Quote ��� ���If you truly believe in yourself, you can laugh at yourself. When you have the ability to laugh at yourself and with others, you can weather the bad times and enjoy the good times.��� – Dick & Alice Stratton
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February 29, 2024
Mary Kelly Article – “Overcoming Overwhelm”
If the pace seems overwhelming lately, friend and colleague Mary Kelly has put together a great guide to help leaders and managers effectively delegate and outsource some tasks and responsibilities.
Please check it out on her website, and post your below wisdom too.
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