It's true, we haven't seen Jeff in weeks!
He left the rest of us here in the office while heading to Hawaii nearly two weeks ago to run a leadership workshop with students from Penn State University.
Then, earlier this week he traded in his Hawaiian shirt for a coat and fancy hat to join his classmates at his 50th college reunion from West Point.
We're not at all bitter about it. Really, we're not ;)
He will surely regale us with many stories of his travel adventures when he returns to the office. We can't wait to hear them!
Storytelling is such a powerful and engaging teaching tool. Stories help connect us to each other, to events, and to lessons.
That is why we use storytelling in all our leadership workshops.
One of the consequences and most important lessons from the Attack on Pearl Harbor, is that it germinated a unity amongst the American people; that great team called the nation.
Talk about a great story!
In this McCausland Monday video and blog post Jeff shares the background of an important monument at Pearl Harbor and the most important lesson we can learn from this historic event.
CLICK HERE for the video and blog post.
Create a team like a meerkat mob - trust, resilience, buy-in
"Team trouble" is definitely a reality right now.
What do we mean?
As you continue to adjust to new guidelines, requests, and expectations from organizations AND employees you might be feeling a little added tension.
Some companies want folks back in the office but employees want to stay home.
Stakeholders want to get back to business but organizations aren't able to move as quickly.
Many are feeling hesitant, fearful, or just plain overwhelmed by it all.
This is when we need to build trust, create resilience, and get buy-in.
Without these three ingredients our teams and organizations will continue to flounder.
We have compiled three blog posts that address these important tools. Plus, strategies you can implement right away.
Just a few little tweaks and your team can get back to business like a mob of meerkats!
Build Trust, Create Resilience, Get Buy-In
How to Build Trust and Achieve Goals: Jeff covers five strategies in very simple terms. Plus, you can watch the McCausland Monday video where he goes into greater detail!
Two Steps to Creating a Resilient Business: Jeff describes his experience keeping Diamond6 alive during Covid, and why Yogi Berra was right....as always!
How to Achieve Buy-In? Become a Great Communicator: Quickly read through six tips that you can immediately incorporate to get to that next level of communication success and earn the essential “buy-in” of your peers.
April Series: A look back at leadership fundamentals
We have decided to declare the month of April, D6 Looks Back Month.
(Pretty cool what you can do when you run your own business!)
This means each week for the entire month of April we will bring you three posts from the D6 blog archive.
So, we're going to hit the ground running with some leadership fundamentals.
Three ingredients for the innovation we need NOW
This month marked a strange and somber anniversary. Two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, now heading into year three.
It seems we can be cautiously optimistic, as far as the pandemic is concerned.
Unfortunately, the world is still experiencing so much tragedy as we watch the citizens of Ukraine fight for their lives and their country.
Covid, Ukraine, and countless other challenges all have secondary effects and impacts that we will experience for years to come.
The pandemic brought on "the great resignation" while the war in the Ukraine is bringing us face to face with our dependence on foreign oil and energy sources.
It can all feel very doom and gloom.
And, while we feel the fear, we also must remember to never waste a perfectly good crisis.
I believe we are in a unique position to make radical, innovative, and necessary changes in our businesses, for the climate, our broken systems, our communities, and families.
I was reflecting back on where I was and what I was doing shortly before the pandemic spread to the U.S. in March, 2020.
I was hanging out with turtles on a trip with my son Phil in the Galapagos! I am so grateful I was able to do that trip before the world shut down.
That trip inspired me to take a fresh look at adaptation, innovation, and leadership. I definitely wouldn't have expected us to all dig deep into our adaptive abilities just a few weeks later when we all started meeting over Zoom!
Now it is time for us to take truly innovate and work on greater change.
On that note, I thought now would be a good time to revisit the article I wrote two years ago.
CLICK HERE to go straight to that blog post.
I'm curious to hear from you! What innovation do you want to see for long term impact?
Comment your thoughts below.