Be the Delta Blog

Healthy organizations are consistently evolving. Especially in today’s fast-paced business landscape, workplaces need leadership that can adapt and thrive no matter what their respective industries endure. As such, there is a constant need for new leaders in all sectors with the skills to lead, manage, innovate, execute strategy and keep up no matter the changes in the business world at large. However, great new leaders don't grow on trees; part of an organization's responsibility is to help individual contributors transition to leaders.

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It's often said that the definition of leadership is the ability to transmute a vision of the future into a reality. In today's changing workplace, visionary leadership will be the key to keeping up and thriving because it tells the story of why the culture is changing and how your organization can embrace the change.

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The holiday season is typically welcomed with an air of joy and festivity each year. However, amid all the fun of time with friends and family, self-care sometimes sinks lower on the daily to-dos around this time of year. For busy leaders like yourself, it is essential to prioritize self-care during the holidays; doing so helps you experience all the festivities in and out of the office as your best self.

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Regardless of the industry or workplace, we live in a fast-moving, overstimulated world where success is tied to achievements. We have deadlines and milestones to meet, team members to guide, managers to answer to, and that's just at work. At home and in our personal lives, we deal with countless other concerns that keep us moving intensely.

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In 2020, workplaces all over the world underwent a seismic shift as organizations shifted first to remote operations and then to the uncharted territory of hybrid work models. As we slowly but surely return to some sense of normalcy, it becomes more vital than ever for your workplace to have a well-defined strategy. Without it, your organization may struggle to meet the demand of your workforce and endanger growth, profitability, and even survival.

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What is “peer coaching”? It’s usually defined as “a form of learning involving two or more colleagues working together to review current practices, teach one another, and develop, refine, and build new skills.” However, it is much more than that; when implemented and executed with intention, peer coaching has the potential to fast-track your growth and development.

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Steve Jobs once famously said, “Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do." While this is true, it is also much easier said than done, especially in the workplace, particularly for women.

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There are countless business books, courses, and blog posts aimed at helping leaders make better decisions. And for a good reason: as leaders, the success or failure of projects, plans, and even entire organizations rest in the decisions we make daily. Deciding on which philosophy to employ can be an overwhelming decision in itself! However, there is a deceptively simple practice that can make beneficial decision-making much more straightforward.

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Springtime is just around the corner! With the warmer weather and longer days, our environments are shaking off the winter chill and being reborn – why shouldn’t that apply to you as well? As a busy leader, it is just as vital for you to make time and space for your own rejuvenation, especially if you are beginning to feel any of the tell-tale signs of burnout, which according to the American Psychological Association, is approaching an all-time high across all professions.

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If someone were to ask you about your beliefs, you might think of deeply personal things like religion or political views. But, beliefs are far more pervasive in our everyday lives than many realize.

Whether we are aware of it or not, underneath every instance of action and communication are our beliefs, which are made up of the ever-growing culmination of our life’s experiences and thoughts. While some beliefs may change or fade, many others become ingrained in us…

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In last month’s blog, we spoke about how to have and keep self-compassion. We talked about what it does for you as a leader and how to remind yourself to be self-compassionate. Without compassion, there is indifference. A lack of sympathy. No emotional effect. At times, it can feel like someone (or yourself) is being harsh when the compassion or empathy is not there.

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Brene Brown says that “Compassion is a belief system that we have to commit to about how we are going to treat ourselves.” As leaders, all too often you are self-critical and hard on yourself, thinking this is what you need to do to get the job done. You sometimes mistake being competitive and pushing yourself to the extreme as a requirement to be successful. However, this belief is untrue. Self-criticism actually stands in your way of being the best you can be. It makes you face mistakes from an emotional place, possibly making that mistake feel worse than it actually is. So what is the alternative? Self-compassion.

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Intention is defined as a determination to act in a certain way. When you are intentional, you have a clear purpose and a strong structure. You are present and committed to putting action behind your thoughts and words, resulting in better relationships in business and life. Having intention in the workplace is to be a leader who creates change and sets the tone for everyone.

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In the fairly recent past, it was normal to have one or two jobs for an entire career and to live in one or two cities for your whole life. The norms are changing. It’s now common to have ten or more jobs in a career, to live in a dozen different cities or even different countries. You’ll find people who are dentists by day and musicians by night. The next generation might be the most diverse, in a variety of ways, that we’ve ever seen.

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What a hectic eighteen months we’ve been through. Our lives were turned upside down, so it’s easy to see how our priorities might be all shuffled up as well. Now we’re starting to see some sense of “normalcy” returning and people are starting to redefine success. It’s being called “The Great Resignation” or even "Great Awakening" as about 4 million people decided to quit their jobs in April alone. Burnout is the reason for quitting in many of these cases but people aren’t just switching employers, many of them are switching industries altogether. They are re-evaluating what is important and what they want in their careers. They are reorganizing their priorities.

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Technology seems to have an ever-increasing role in the workplace. More and more of what we do can be automated, so one would think that workplace burnout would be steadily decreasing. That is not the case. Burnout at work is just as much of an issue today as it has ever been. As leaders, we’ve got to find ways to manage that burnout in ourselves and in our employees/coworkers.

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