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.
How to Conquer Your Fear of Public Speaking in Just 6 Steps
In real estate, the mantra is: ‘location, location, location’. In public speaking? It’s ‘practice, practice, practice’. Ask some actors and they’ll tell you that they never get over the stage fright, the butterflies that come before the cameras roll or the curtains part. One thing they will all tell you is that they beat…
10 Things Mentally Strong Leaders Do
Really, it’s a bit of a misnomer to refer to ‘mentally strong leaders’. Most leaders, by definition, are mentally strong. But like the chicken and the egg argument, which came first? The leadership or the strength? Most successful leaders started out with many of these strong traits in their back pockets, but their time…
7 Tips to Help You Command the Room
“Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.” — Thomas Jefferson Whether you’re at a networking event, or about to chair a board meeting with a slightly hostile majority, fear is your enemy if your goal is to command the room. Instead, do as Thomas Jefferson suggests: act…
One Quality That Can Be Found in All Innovative Leaders
You might be thinking charisma, or speaking ability. Perhaps you think it’s about their communication style or their ability to delegate? Wrong. The quality that you will find in virtually ALL leaders who are at the head of change and innovation around the world is a willingness to solve problems. “Problem-solving leaders…
Do You Know Your Next Career Move?
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on!” – Sheryl Sandberg What are your options to grow and evolve, when you’re already at a senior level? Obviously, that depends on your organization, your industry and your…
How to Prepare Your Team for Fast Growth
Like the video that goes viral, fast growth can lead to some unintended consequences, both good and bad. How your team reacts in moments of upheaval and change is entirely a reflection of the leadership. Fast growth can reveal tremendous opportunities and also major flaws. You and your team need to be ready for…
5 Common Mistakes People Make When Giving a Presentation
You’ve been working for days on a presentation for the C-Suite, or the shareholders. Or perhaps you’ve been honing the text of a speech you hope will result in a standing ovation. Keep these words in mind, however: “The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are…
3 Ways to Create a Happy Team at Work
Workplace happiness has a valuable ROI Asking your team to look for gratitude in their every day can feel a little forced at first, but encourage them to persist! You, and they, will find that it makes a difference! We all want to be helpful at work but sometimes it takes a conscious act…
The Keys to Strong Leadership
You can’t just talk the talk. Talking tough is not leadership. It’s bluff and it usually masks a whole host of insecurities and issues of self-doubt. Being tough: that’s a true foundation of strong leadership. This doesn’t mean being tough in the sense of coming down hard on other people, but an inward strength that…
LOL: Why Humor Is Good for Teams and Business
There’s no contradicting the fact that a little laughter can lighten any situation. We’ve all been in one of those situations: a tense disagreement between team members or a stressful day with a deadline looming. How these times get handled is very important to the overall well-being of a team. One way to handle them…