Over the past 5+ years as an executive coach, Jordan has learned a lot about what it takes to be an effective leader. She enjoys working in partnership with smart, accomplished visionaries and is constantly fascinated by how they contribute to the world with the work they do.
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Jordan Mercedes Gets to the Heart of the Matter
Unleash Mindful Creativity with Melinda Rothouse
A multifaceted facilitator and coach, Melinda Rothouse is also a musician, a photographer, and an author. She recently published a book on how leaders can create cultures of innovation through mindfulness-based creativity and collaboration. The book, A Mindful Approach to Team Creativity and Collaborations in Organizations, reached #1 Bestseller in New Releases in several categories on Amazon on launch day. People appreciate learning about the research on mindfulness and creativity and the practical tools they can put to use with their teams.
Read more…A Better Way to Meeting: Smooth Flight
Our resident Improv Performer and Trainer, Shana Merlin, leads us through an exercise, based on the work of Dr. Rick Brinkman, that will improve any meeting, whether video, conference call, or in-person.
Leadership Currency: What Is It and How To Earn It
Leadership Currency: A new leadership mindset for 2020
Carla Harris, speaker, author, and Managing Director at Morgan Stanley talks about two kinds of reputation and influence you build in your career, performance currency, and relationship currency. Combined, we like to refer to these as your leadership currency. In this video, Lead Trainer and Creative Executive Coach, Lauren Russo explains leadership currency and why effective leaders both earn it and spend it across their careers.
Why We Love Improv For Teams
Improv For The Win!
What is fun and can help you practice risk-taking and communication at all levels? Improv! In this leadership video, weāre talking about why we love this for teams.
Navigating Conflict in the Workplace
Three Tools to Help You Address Conflict
Deftly navigating conflict in the workplace is never fun, but itās imperative to being an effective leader. In this leadership video, learn about our three favorite tools for addressing conflict at work. Get beyond the conflict by understanding priorities, scope, and social threat triggers for yourself and the other party.
Motivating People Up, Down, and Across Your Organization
How to Motivate Others
You inspire and galvanize your direct reports, but how do you motivate people across your organization? In this leadership video, get insights into our two favorite strategies for motivating others above, below, and across your organization.
Level-up Without Leaving Others Behind
Your People Deserve Better Team-Building
Team building should be more than just swag t-shirts. Design a team-building experience thatās worthy of your smart, talented, and engaged people. In this leadership video, we are talking about the three filters you should use to evaluate your next team-building experience.
Create a Leadership Development Program That Sticks
Leadership Development Programs: Four Resources to Consider
Considering creating a leadership development program for your organization? In this video, we discuss the four things you need to think about before you start.
Culture: How to Assess and Improve It
Why You Need a Culture Assessment
As a creative leader, you need candid feedback on how people experience their workplace. How do you get this intel when people arenāt exactly transparent with the boss? In this leadership video, weāre breaking down the what, who, and why of culture assessments.
Why Are We Here? Purpose Matters
Why Purpose Matters
Leading human teams is about much more than simply managing resources. Thereās the transactional aspect of overseeing resources + workflow. There’s also a crucial relational component to managing people. In this leadership video, weāre getting relational. Letās talk about how sharing purpose, or āthe why,ā with your people can lead to better work experiences and more sustainable results over the long term.
Lauren Russo Rethinks Structure
Meet our Creative Executive Coaches
At the Creative Executive, we work with some pretty amazing people. We work with teams who are striving to communicate and collaborate better. We work with corporate clients to improve the way that work gets done throughout the organization, with an eye towards a more sustainable culture and profitable outcomes. We couldnāt do any of this work without our incredible team of coaches who work alongside these clients. In this ongoing series, weāll be profiling all of our coaches. Our talented coaching team helps fuel the magic we facilitate for companies, teams, and leaders every day. This month, meet Lead Trainer and Coach, Lauren Russo.
Culture-Centric Hiring: Win the New Talent Game
When it comes to the job hunt, itās a buyerās market these days. And job searchers are looking for more than just a set of benefits. They are looking for fit. What does this mean for organizations looking to hire?
It means you will need to work harder to find the right talent that will help you move your organization forward. Here are five insights to help your organization navigate this hiring frenzy and come out the other end with the right people.
How to Scale Management and Leadership in Your Company
We just finished a fun project with a client creating a Management and Leadership Style Guide. The partners of this company wanted to guide the development of their new managers in a way thatās meaningful both to them and to the staff they oversee.
Questions To Help You Troubleshoot Team Issues
With the fast pace and client-centric focus in creative environments, it can be hard to pause for a second to check in on how your team is working. Before you realize it, dynamics take root that can damage your productivity and your entire work culture.
When you know that something needs to change on your team, but you canāt quite pinpoint the problem, ask yourself these questions to help identify your issues and set a course of action.
Career Pathing: A Blueprint for Developing Leaders
Whether you call it career design, career mapping, role planning, or professional development, it is essential to map out how your people can gain the skills, experience, and expertise to grow toward a particular role, responsibility, or outcome. We call it Career Pathing.
Growing a Deliberately Developmental Organization
When was the last time you wanted to stay in a job where you werenāt being challenged or using your talents? Where you knew exactly what to expect every day? Where there were no surprises and you knew you would have the same role in five or 10 years that you have today?
That might work for some people, but weāll bet this doesnāt work for you.
10 Things to Think About Before You Get Work-Married
I was recently asked for insights on what people should think about before becoming business partners.
Partnership is marriage. Period. When itās great, itās great, and when itās challengingā¦you have to dig in. Partnership is being legally entwined with someone else (or multiple people), for better or worse. Read more…
What’s Your Superpower?
What do you love? What makes you smile?Ā What interests you? Ā What are you good at? Your superpower lies at the intersection of the answer to these questions.
What I Learned From Our C/E Immersion Weekend
As I was wrapping up our Creative Executive Immersion experience, I found myself at a loss for words. I was having a really hard time articulating my thoughts to the group because I was so blown away by their courage.
In the coaching world, the word courage gets thrown around like Snickers on Halloween, so it can often sound trite or superficial. But talking about courage and actually experiencing it are two very different things. During the Immersion weekend, I was witness to the depth and meaning of the word.