As a leader, it’s your responsibility to decide on goals for yourself and the rest of your team, and creating those goals is not something you should do in isolation. When you’re creating goals for your organization, you want your team members to be involved, you want them to give you ideas so that they’ll be just as excited as you are. Plus, the more involved they are in setting goals for themselves, the more committed to those goals they are likely to be. Once you do sit down and create a game plan that’s fleshed out with goals and dates, be sure to revisit those goals on a regular basis and check in with the folks who are responsible for accomplishing those goals. A few things to keep in mind while you’re creating goals: Be sure that each goal is

Transformational leadership is defined as a leadership approach that causes change in individuals and social systems. The concept of transforming leaders was first introduced in 1978 by James MacGregor Burns, whose research was focused on political leaders. According to Burns, there are two types of leadership: transactional and transformational. Transactional leadership has a “give and take” approach, which is focused on supervision and performing in order to reach goals. In contrast, transformational leadership is based on redesigning perceptions and values of employee and company culture through articulating an energizing vision and working every day to create beneficial surroundings for the team. When experts talk about transformational leadership, they refer to four elements within it, known as the 4I model. Here they are: Idealized Influence – essentially, this means being a role model. SHOW your team how you want them to be and lead by example. Inspirational Motivation – this component

Good morning, parent leaders! One of my favorite books when I was a child was “Matilda” by Roald Dahl. While the tale was imaginative and supernatural in parts, there is a practical lesson that we can pull from the story. Even the awful Ms. Trunchbull noticed how so many parents love their children no matter how gross she thought they were. Parents have a selfless love that allows them to see past any temporary misbehavior to the soul of their child. They have the ability to love them and encourage them in the hard times, because they know that the reassurance and affirmation is what will help that child grow into the healthy, mature adult that they are destined to become. We are all planted with seeds of greatness, and love is the magic ingredient that helps us grow.