Lowering the bar might feel like you’re slacking off, but it’s not. It’s a leadership skill.

Connecting the dots is a leadership communication skill that is simple and so powerful to bring your team members along with your thinking, your vision, and even the way you listen to them. Practicing connecting the dots makes leaders better listeners and better strategic thinkers.

Leaders can raise awareness of the quality of their thinking by using these three ways.

You must do your inner work to maintain groundedness, hope, and clarity.

This leader will have to harness both the courage and the humility to try something new at a regular team forum.

Positive thoughts, can also certainly be patterned, unconscious thinking.

Instead of trying to sound "professional," aim to sound real. 

Instead of just "winging it" as you lead your team through its next project or change process, consider leading more deliberately.

Transitions often move from known to unknown. Often they bring us from old and stale to new and exciting. Some transitions, though, aren’t so welcome.

You can’t control your team, but you can create an environment that supports them.