Eaactive Leadership

Focus more on the whole person showing up for work instead of getting your whole workforce to show up.

How are you treating your people at work? How do you think you should be treating them?

The underpinnings of all virtuous leadership is based on your balance of these five particular pillars: empathy, anger, advice, courage, and transcendence.

Find out why these virtues are so important and how you can better create balance among these in order to become a better leader.

Happy first day of November and Happy Monday! Here's a little motivation to start your week moving in the right direction.

"Smart people learn from everything and everyone. Average people from their experiences. Stupid people already have all the answers." -Socrates

Happy Halloween! Stay safe and have fun this weekend.

Merry Thursday! It’s time for another batch of notes. Today I’m especially grateful for all of the valuable life lessons I learned along the way.

What life lessons are you happy to have learned?

Today it seems like most of our so-called leaders are just interested in likes and shares and not virtues and service. The best leaders put the needs and wants of others ahead of their own.

How do you choose to lead others? Are you putting on a pretend leadership costume or do you let your real colors show?

The Eaactive Leadership Style Assessment (ELSA) is a powerful virtues-based indicator tool that will give you techniques on how to best serve, motivate, and inspire others as well as how to create a better community for your employees, constituents, congregations, and followers. Once aspiring leaders answer the assessment questions, they'll be presented with their leadership style along with means and methods of implementing those virtues-based practices into their leadership roles.

You can take the assessment today for free at the link below:
https://hxes4uvuhx6.typeform.com/to/DROxOikG

It's Halloween week, but that doesn't mean talking about your mental health needs to be scary. Listen to these inspiring words to get your week started on the right foot.

"Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about."
-Robin Williams

Friday afternoon is about that time I start to think about what’s happening this weekend. For me, this weekend is going to be all about family. The grandparents are coming into town so it will be an extra special family weekend.

What are you doing this weekend?

Happy Thursday! That means another batch of shout outs. This week I am happy to have plenty of family, friends, colleagues, and connections who generally make my life more enjoyable, fun, and worthwhile. Thanks everyone!

What are you happy to have plenty of in your life this week?

It is only once you fully understand yourself can you successfully lead others.

Do you know what makes you a great leader? Can others identify that easily? If not, why not? What's holding you back?

Every employee currently working for a company - whether it's a small, medium or large business - has a job to do. Those duties and tasks were most likely laid out during the interview process, and most of those specific functions have stayed the same throughout that employee's tenure with the company. Then, to take it a step further, those that hired that employee also have specific jobs to do and they have specific people to report to. Moving up the ladder of responsibility, each supervisor also has specific jobs and functions they must perform and specific people they must in turn report to as well.

To help employees better understand their roles and remind them who they should report to, companies develop organizational charts. Within any company that has more than one employee - be it a three employee sales office, a 30 employee retail store, or a 3,000 employee manufacturer and distributor, there will be an organizational structure to define the roles and responsibilities of each employee from the CEO to the receptionists. (See the title picture for an example of an organization chart.)

But, one thing you may not notice in an organization chart is all of the white space in between and around each person. Employees and managers typically function and perform well when their roles and their duties are defined and when they know who is their superior. But what happens when those roles and duties are not defined? What happens when a task may require two, three, or four different people or departments to have a hand in the decision making process? What happens when there is no clearly defined boss?

Check out the rest of the article on our blog to learn the 3 easy steps to addressing the blank spaces in your organizational chart.

https://www.eaactive.com/knowledge/blog/addressing-the-blank-spaces-in-your-org-chart