Weekly Posts and Insights
Leadership, Babies and Mothers
As we wrap up this fun and light-hearted series, I'm experiencing a range of emotions—not only about leadership and recipes (though I love completing projects!), but also about the upcoming birth of my baby girl (due anytime now) and my late mother’s birthday on March 2.
Strategic Vision Soufflé
A soufflé perfectly captures the essence of a leader’s vision—it starts with a strong foundation, requires delicate preparation, and rises with care and precision to create something breathtaking. Like a great vision, it inspires, stretches boundaries, and demonstrates that with the right balance of ingredients, a remarkable outcome is achievable.
The Leadership Growth Lattice for Your Learning and Development Efforts
According to LinkedIn’s 2024 Workplace Learning Report, employees are more likely to stay at a company that invests in their learning and development—a key strategy as 90% of organizations express concern about retention. The Leadership Growth Lattice offers a simple yet holistic approach, blending job training, mentorship, and leadership development to create multiple pathways for professional growth.
Conflict Resolution Lasagna
Lasagna is best when the layers are well-balanced—don’t rush or skip steps, or the dish (and resolution) will fall apart. Be patient and intentional with each layer.
Serve this Conflict Resolution Lasagna during tense team meetings, one-on-one conversations, or community disagreements. Pair it with empathy and the willingness to find common ground for the perfect harmony.
Motivation Risotto
Motivation, much like a well-balanced dish, relies on the right blend of ingredients. The CAMP model—Competency, Autonomy, Meaningfulness, and Progress—is your recipe to keep your team energized and engaged. Missing even one component is like forgetting salt in a soup—it just doesn’t work. Let’s break it down.
Trust Broth
Just like crafting the perfect dish, building trust and connection within your team requires the right ingredients and careful preparation.
The Leadership Compote: Essential Ingredients for the Perfect Leadership Dish
Over the next few weeks, we’re taking a delightful detour from our in-depth writing to focus on our newest e-book, The Leadership Compote. Designed as a recipe book for leaders, this e-book offers simple, powerful, and fun “recipes” to inspire and guide great leadership.
While you can always download the full e-book, we invite you to follow along as we share a new recipe each week. And if you find this content helpful, the best way to support us is by sharing this post with another leader who might enjoy or benefit from it.
The Leadership Compote: Simple, Soul-Warming Recipes for Growing Resilient Leaders
Easy, applicable and scrumptious leadership recipes for everyone. Sometimes it takes some creativity (and a touch of humor) to better understand key leadership principles. It’s our hope that this book, above all else, sparks some ah-ha (or even ha-ha) moments for you. Leadership should be loose, fun, and adaptable. As you read through these recipes, I hope you not only chuckle but also picture exactly what we’re talking about when we think of best leadership practices and take something meaningful away.
One Year Later
Over the past year, we’ve explored the shift from workplace culture to community, delving into themes like belonging, trust, adaptability, and leadership as service. Through concepts like the Upside-Down Community Leader, Greenthumb Leadership, and the Deep Ocean Model, we’ve examined how leaders can foster growth, navigate change, and address underlying beliefs. This journey has highlighted that leadership is intentional and requires continuous learning, with the hope of inspiring growth and meaningful connections in others.
A Leadership Recipe for the Holidays
Good food is all about timing, intention, and a willingness to experiment. Leadership is no different. So, this holiday, let’s take a detour from boring leadership jargon and straight into the heart of the kitchen—a place where raw ingredients transform into something magic. Great leadership, like great food, can feed the soul. Here are the essential ingredients for the perfect leadership dish.