Lead From Day One

November reality check: Your team is being asked to close out the year strong while also planning next year, covering for holiday absences, and dealing with family obligations.

Something's gotta give. Make sure it's not their mental health.

What are you willing to let slide?

I told my team "I value transparency" then got defensive the first time someone was honest about a flaw in my plan.

Transparency is easy to say, hard to practice when it's YOUR decisions being questioned.

How do you handle transparency that challenges you?

#LeadershipReality

Veterans Day thought: Military leadership teaches something corporate America often misses - mission before ego.

The best military leaders I worked with knew when to lead from the front and when to empower from behind.

What leadership lesson from outside business changed how you lead?

Day after election, regardless of results: Half your team is celebrating, half is devastated.

Your job today isn't to have opinions - it's to create space where everyone can still work together tomorrow.

Leadership is holding the center.

#WorkplaceLeadership

Election Day reminder: Great leaders create environments where people with different political views can still work together effectively.

Your job isn't to enforce agreement - it's to maintain respect.

How do you navigate political tension at work?

#Leadership #WorkplaceCulture

Grateful for every leader who took a chance on me when I had more potential than proof.

Grateful for every mistake that taught me what not to do.

Grateful for every team member who made me better by challenging me.

Who are you grateful for in your leadership journey?

#Gratitude #Leadership

Real question: How vulnerable is TOO vulnerable as a leader?

I've seen leaders share too much and lose credibility. I've also seen leaders share nothing and lose connection.

Where's the line for you?

#LeadershipVulnerability #Authenticity

A quick google search: The U.S. Religion Census, which gathered data from 372 religious bodies, counted 356,642 congregations in 2020. Not only have our politicians let us down, so have our faith leaders! Another quick search and there are roughly 770,000 homeless. The solution stares at us!

The day I stopped trying to be the leader I thought I should be and started being the leader I actually am, everything changed.

Turns out, people follow humans, not personas.

What facade did you drop when you finally felt secure as a leader?

#AuthenticLeadership

Every major career transition I've made terrified me.

Individual contributor to supervisor. One country to eight. In-person to remote leadership.

The fear never goes away. You just get better at moving forward anyway.

What transition scares you right now?

#CareerTransition #Leadership

Setting boundaries with your team feels selfish until you realize that having none makes you resentful.

Resentful leaders make terrible decisions.

"No" is a complete sentence, even for managers.

What boundary do you struggle to maintain?

The week I worked until 2 AM for five straight nights, I thought I was showing dedication.

My team saw desperation.

Burned-out leaders don't inspire - they create anxiety.

When did you realize you were modeling the wrong behavior?

Hard truth: Every leader has favorites. The question is whether you admit it and manage it fairly.

I pretended I treated everyone equally while clearly giving my "star player" better opportunities.

The team noticed. They always notice.

How do you handle having favorites?

Real talk: The fastest way to lose credibility as a leader is to gossip about one team member to another.

I did this once. ONCE.

Word got back in less than 24 hours. Trust took months to rebuild.

What's your gossip horror story?

Learned the hard way: Staying "above office politics" isn't noble - it's naive.

While I was focused on being pure, someone else was building alliances and making decisions that affected my team.

Politics is just influence by another name.

How do you navigate workplace politics?

Recovery confession: I used to redo my team's work after hours "to make it perfect."

They knew. Of course they knew.

Nothing kills initiative faster than a leader who "fixes" everything you do.

Are you secretly undoing your team's work too?

"Just delegate it" they said.
"It'll be easy" they said.

Nobody warned me that delegation means watching someone do something completely differently than you would - and having to be okay with it.

What's the hardest thing for you to delegate?

Brutal honesty: I micromanaged my first team because I was terrified they'd make me look bad.

Spoiler alert: My hovering made everyone look bad, especially me.

Trust is terrifying. Control is exhausting. Choose your poison.

What made you finally let go of control?

One week milestone! 🎉

"Leading From Day One" has been in readers' hands for a full week now. The stories people are sharing about their first supervisor experiences are incredible.

Turns out we all have more in common than we thought. Leadership challenges are universal!

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Looking for a comprehensive roadmap for your leadership role? This book is perfect for you!

Sunday reflection: One week since launch and I'm blown away by the response.

The best part? Hearing from new supervisors who say "This is exactly what I needed."

That's why I wrote it. To make the teammate-to-leader transition less scary and more successful.

Thank you all! 🙏

Saturday morning thought: Remember your first week as a supervisor?

That "what the heck am I supposed to do now?" feeling?

"Leading From Day One" is for that exact moment. Practical answers for the questions every new leader has but is afraid to ask.

Perfect weekend read! ☕📚

Year 1 of leadership: "I need to prove I belong here"
Year 3: "Maybe I'm starting to figure this out"
Year 5: "I have no idea what I'm doing, but neither does anyone else"

Where are you in your leadership journey?

Friday fact: Most companies spend more time training people to use the coffee machine than they do preparing new supervisors to lead people.

That's... actually insane when you think about it. 🤯

"Leading From Day One" fixes this gap. Available everywhere books are sold!

Watching executives announce "exciting new changes" to a room full of eye-rolls never gets old.

Newsflash: Change isn't exciting when you're the one doing all the work to implement it.

How do you make change actually feel collaborative?

Plot twist: The leadership lessons I learned in Jordan worked just as well in Sweden.

And the frameworks that helped teams in Ecuador? They work in Canada too.

Turns out, good leadership is more universal than we think. That's the heart of "Leading From Day One." 🌎

Five years ago, I thought good leaders never showed uncertainty.

Now I know the strongest leaders are the ones brave enough to say "I don't know, but let's figure it out together."

What leadership myth did you have to unlearn?

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That was exactly the goal. No fluff, no theory - just real strategies that work whether you're managing in Minnesota or Dubai.

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The employee who saved our biggest client relationship this quarter hasn't received a single "thank you" from upper management.

But hey, we did get pizza for hitting our sales targets.

Recognition matters more than pepperoni.

How do you actually recognize good work?

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🚨 LAUNCH DAY! 🚨

"Leading From Day One" is officially available!

From my first supervisor disaster in the Army to leading multicultural teams across 8 countries - every lesson learned is in this book.

For every professional stepping into leadership: this one's for you! 💪

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