Leadership | Lauren Schieffer, Motivational Speaker

How Are You Creating Community?

by Lauren Schieffer | Oct 3, 2022 | Leadership, Leadership Development

How are you creating community on your team? Are you even thinking about it? One of the base needs of human nature is the need to be included. We want to be encouraged and valued by a greater whole. We were created to be in community. We are stronger in community. The...

Do You Truly Understand Your Value?

by Lauren Schieffer | Sep 27, 2022 | Leadership, Leadership Development

The Colonel said, “Your value doesn’t have to be earned or bought, kiddo. Your value is inherent because you exist. It just IS.” In the 21st century, many people base their value upon their net worth or the title they hold. As leaders, those standards are especially...

Are You Too Focused on Success?

by Lauren Schieffer | Sep 20, 2022 | Leadership, Leadership Development

Are you too focused on success? The greatest challenge The Colonel issued to his daughters was to choose significance over mere success. He said, “Anyone can be successful, kiddo… Making a lot of money, that’s easy. Choose to be significant.” This is what Dad...

Do You Have a Need to Be Bigger or Better?

by Lauren Schieffer | Sep 13, 2022 | Leadership, Leadership Development

The Colonel said, “Blowing out someone else’s candle won’t make yours shine any brighter, kiddo.” Leaders regularly lift others up, not put others down. We have all met people who put others down to make themselves look or feel bigger and better. They gather for...

Should Leadership Be Easy?

by Lauren Schieffer | Sep 6, 2022 | Lauren Schieffer, Leadership

Throughout my career, I have always pushed myself to obtain a leadership position. (I am my father’s daughter, after all…) There have been a few times, though, when I’ve wondered why. Why do I do it? Sometimes it feels like a lot of aggravation with very little...

Are You an Optimist?

by Lauren Schieffer | Aug 30, 2022 | Leadership, Leadership Development

Dad said, “You’ve got to be an optimist. When your team can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel, you have to be able to show it to them and convince them it’s not a train.” Optimism is not a squishy, overly idealist characteristic. Optimism is actually a...

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