Reflection on Days 11-19: #SL100

In weeks 1-10 I determined that my goal for this journey was to build my internal social leadership skills.  Here is what I learned in days 11-19: I'm struggling determining what I will be "known" for internally.  Will it be the same space that I claim externally (though to be honest I am not so...

Reflection on Days 1 – 10: #SL100

Here are some reflections from Days 1-10 (The Foundations) of my social leadership journey. This journey is interesting for me as it's forcing me to look inward towards my organization.  I have mentioned in previous posts how I have done a pretty good job of building social leadership and working out loud skills outside my...

Reflection: My First Hackathon

I recently help to run my first internal non-software hackathon to support creation of a management development program. I had forgotten what it was like to do something I had never done before. It was scary. I was nervous.  I didn't have enough time to plan.  My colleagues, though they really wanted to, only had...

Above My Pay Grade

It's painful to admit that I have used this phrase one to many times lately, along with the phrase "shut up and color."  Two things that pretty much go against everything I have been trying to do the past few years by working out loud, practicing personal knowledge mastery, building my social leadership skills and...

Coming to Terms with “Aspirational” Culture

I have been collaborating on a project that is attempting to help create/enhance the culture our organization wants to have by defining a core set of leadership competencies that span all levels of the organization.   In essence we are creating an "aspired to" state of the type of leadership we want at our organization in...