A collection of reflections, tools, and leadership insights to help you communicate more clearly, navigate change more confidently, and lead with greater generosity.
New insights are added monthly, including expanded versions of Shannon’s LinkedIn articles and fresh content designed to support your growth.
Traffic Report from the High Road
“There’s never traffic on the high road, and the view is magnificent.” —Shannon Cassidy Since my children were young, I have encouraged them to take the proverbial high road. My plea includes the selling point that taking this road will have benefits, like there’s rarely any traffic there and the view is magnificent. It’s something…
Gratitude for Growth
“Finding gratitude and appreciation is key to resilience. People who take the time to list things they are grateful for are happier and healthier.” – Sheryl Sandberg Sheryl Sandberg said those words at a commencement speech in 2016, at the University of California, Berkeley, just over a year after losing her husband Dave. Her attitude…
How Gratitude Can Improve Productivity
“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” ~ Oprah Winfrey Here’s an alarming statistic: according to Gallup research, only 15% of employees worldwide are engaged in their employment. That means that 85% don’t like their work, their…
5 Leadership Productivity Hacks
Whether you’re a CEO or a team leader, these hacks are tried and tested by people in leadership roles. There are only 24 hours in a day and some of those hours have to be devoted to sleep, no matter how big your company is or what projects and developments are occurring at any…
How to Become a Thought Leader
Brand—both personal and company—are difficult to form but positioning yourself and your organization as thought leaders in your particular industry can go a long way to creating the brand that you want. With a strong brand and recognized position as a leader in the industry, you and your company can welcome a breadth of…
Leadership Qualities of Introverts
Many of us equate loud, brash and even aggressive with success. But in fact, the quiet qualities of a classic introvert can be just the ticket, in a leadership role. Of the many things a leader does every day, interacting with people is top of the list. If you’re an introvert by nature, many will…
The Difference Between Leading And Managing
While on the surface, it may seem that these two terms are interchangeable, there are in fact important differences, for you and for your team, between being a leader and being a manager. Understanding those differences is how you can step from one role to the other with distinction. “Management consists of controlling a group…
The 20-60-20 Rule of Change Management
Whether you’ve been brought in to a team to clean it up or to facilitate the implementation of a new program, product or service, change management requires some tough decisions. In addition to figuring out a plan for implementation of whatever program, process, product, or service you’ve been brought in to manage, there is a…
How and Why CEOs Should Be Leveraging Executive Coaching
The short answer to ‘why’ CEOs should leverage executive coaching is simple: it is the clearest way to develop leadership skills, to take a leader with potential and help to make them extraordinary. Also? It’s lonely at the top. Few people will tell you where you are going wrong and even fewer will support you…
4 Ways to Ensure People Hear What You’re Saying
It’s not about being loud: good leaders can communicate with a whisper and still be heard. If you think about the greatest leaders the world has ever seen, throughout history, you’ll realize that all of them were excellent speakers. They knew how to communicate a message that resonated with the audience they were seeking to…