Leadership Menu
This menu of leadership skills and strategies has been developed to meet the needs of current and aspiring managers in Lakeland College. The purpose is to give you a few resources and a starting point for areas you can dig into more deeply with Aubrey.
You are welcome to email Aubrey directly or use the form at the bottom of this page. Of course, you can also ask Kent if you're a little unsure of your options.
Meetings
Do you strategically plan the type of meetings you will lead? How do you capture the best ideas and build the leadership of your people?
🔅 Intentionality
🔅 Agendas
🔅 Flipping
🔅 Building a 1:1 feedback routine
Managing with a Growth Mindset sessions 1, 2
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Resources
🔥 Meeting and Tracking Agenda with TTD Tab (Excel)
🔥 Silence Does the Heavy Lifting via Warm Demanders (article)
🔥 Meetingitis via Warm Demanders (article)
🔥 Be Right at the End of the Meeting by David Cote (video)
Organization and Clarity
A bring forward system is little know in education, but the backbone of all legal and finance offices to manage information.
🔅 Paper and Email Bring Forward System
🔅 Bring Forward System in Meetings
🔅 Time Blocking as a Team
🔅 Clarity via Things-To-Do and Things-Not-To-Do Lists
Managing with a Growth Mindset sessions 1, 2
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Resources
🔥 Creating a Things-Not-To-Do List (video)
🔥 Creating a Things-Not-To-Do List (notes)
🔥 Creating Clarity with a Things-To-Do List (video)
🔥 Creating Clarity with a traffic light document (Word doc)
🔥 What Is an algorithm? via theconversation.com (article)
🔥 A How to Match Our Why via Warm Demanders (article)
🔥 Empowerment Can't Be Taken Away via Warm Demanders (article)
🔥 Second-Order Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperform via Farnam Street (article)
Productivity
There's a lot coming at you. Would it interest you to learn how to turn all that stuff into information?
🔅 Inbox Zero (This is a longer lesson and you'll have 2 weeks to complete it).
🔅 2-Minute Rule to Capture, Curate, or Cache
🔅 Time Blocking and the Weekly Meeting with Myself
🔅 The Next Best Action Rule for TTD, Time Blocks, and Email
Managing with a Growth Mindset sessions 1, 2
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Resources
🔥 Manage Hard, Lead Easy (course free to Lakeland people)
🔥 Time Blocking Big Rock via FranklinCovey (video)
🔥 Adding is Favoured Over Subtracting in Problem Solving via Nature.com (article)
🔥 So Much STUFF! via Warm Demanders (article)
🔥 Meeting with Myself via Warm Demanders (article)
Building a Positive Culture
We all know that culture eats strategy for breakfast. Of course, finding the time is always a challenge, but you can build that remarkable culture gradually, gradually, then SUDDENLY!
🔅 Carry Your Weather
🔅 Bring a Growth Mindset into Meetings
🔅 Huddles
🔅 Catch People Doing Things Right
Managing with a Growth Mindset sessions 1, 2
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Resources
🔥 The Ideal Team Player via Pat Lencioni (video)
🔥 Carefronting and Having Courageous Conversations via Warm Demanders (article)
🔥 Be a Manager AND a Leader via Warm Demanders (article)
🔥 We Need People to Keep Us Accountable via John Maxwell (video)
🔥 If People Have to Follow You, How Do You Know if You're a Good Leader? via Warm Demanders (article)
🔥 Crabs in a Bucket via Warm Demanders (article)
🔥 The Ikea Effect via Psychology Today (article)
🔥 Proof That Positive Cultures are More Productive via Harvard Business Review (article)
Inspiration
We all need a little time to reflect and put a different lens on things from time to time. Aubrey coaches impactful leaders who occasionally want to reframe or explore new strategies to inspire their team.
🔅 Problem or Fact of Life?
🔅 Rallying Cry
🔅 4 Stages of Team Development
🔅 5 Stages of Leadership
Managing with a Growth Mindset sessions 1, 2
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Resources
🔥 The Best Research is Me-search via Warm Demanders (article)
🔥 Smooth Stones Take Time via Warm Demanders (article)
🔥 False Summits via Warm Demanders (article)
🔥 Leadership and Rubik's Cubes via Warm Demanders (article)
🔥 A Lesson From Goldilocks via Warm Demanders (article)
🔥 Finding Home Base via Warm Demanders (article)
🔥 Problem or Fact of Life? via Warm Demanders (article)
🔥 Staying True to Your Dreams via Warm Demanders (article)
🔥 Say the Why, Lead the Way via Warm Demanders (article)
🔥 The Highlight Reel: The Stories We Tell Ourselves via Warm Demanders (article)
🔥 A More Thoughtful Yes or No via Warm Demanders (article)
Video Tech Tips
Did you know that saving 1 minute every day adds up to over 6 hours in a year? What if you could regain 10-20 minutes a day? What if you could feel better about the technology that's at your fingertips and already on your devices?
🔅 Microsoft Basics, Intermediate, or Advanced Tools
🔅 Maximize Your Phone Apps
🔅 Using Chrome to Save HUGE Amounts of Time and Energy
🔅 Calendar and Task Tips That You'll Love
Managing with a Growth Mindset sessions 1, 2
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