LAGNIAPPE
Pronounced lan-yap: meaning “a little something extra." *
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Spotlight: The 90 Second Executive Coach
Leadership Integrity
AKA Your Honor Code
AKA Watch Out for Vampires
A new episode of "The 90 Second Executive Coach!"
Whether you call it Integrity or an Honor Code or Personal Standards or something else, knowing your unshakable values is essential to the power of your leadership and will also define your leadership style.
This video introduces the concept of getting in touch with and intentionally practicing these values without exception.
Make no mistake, this is not an easy practice. Many of you reading this may be feeling puzzled because it is 'obvious' what standards you live by. Others may feel intimidated by the idea of defining and holding firm to an honor code. Perhaps some of you have gone through this process and are smiling at the memories and the true leadership maturity it brought you.
The good news is that there are structured and step-by-step ways to do this, which don't fit into a 90 second coaching clip. Almost every one of the members in the Mosley Institute for Leadership (and the EMI executive coaching programs that preceded the Institute) step through this process sooner or later. They are the ones smiling that knowing smile right now!
It may also surprise you that a personal honor code is unshakable but not unchangeable. It's not a "one and done." It changes incrementally as you change - as you take on more as a leader and as you learn to vanquish the "integrity vampires" one by one.
At first your honor code may be focused on some important next steps for your professional growth and career, at which point you'll want to identify the most common or troubling ways that the vampires sneak up on you.
And then in time it may grow to be more aspirational as you gain mastery and wisdom in your leadership and begin to see more subtle or complex vampires at work in your life. You'll gain confidence to focus on patterns that you see arising.
Check out the video and let us know what you think!
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This video is a new excerpt from a session recorded for Empowering Women in Industry 2020 that has not previously been available to the public.
I've been invited by Empowering Women in Industry to speak in person at their event this year, and if you'd like to join us in October (in New Orleans or online), scroll down to the travel calendar for links.
For more reading and watching from us, check out our curated archives at Still Curious?
You don't *have* to wait for the crisis.
Most new members in the Mosley Institute join because there is an immediate need... a big career move, interpersonal or organizational difficulties, burnout, that kind of thing.
I'm delighted to help through those professional and personal chapters, and equally delighted if or when those members reduce or close out their memberships to integrate the changes they've made or try something new.
But also! Some members keep a membership going because they like to have a steady sounding board as they go about whatever tough and important work they are doing in the world.
It's like having an executive coach "on-call" -- right there to set up a video call or send a personal email response.
Some members have enjoyed having me as a trusted advisor for 5 years or more!
The fall work season is a terrific time to invest in some professional coaching to finish off the year with more joy and success -- and to be ready for 2025! Mosley Institute scheduling is flexible to fit in this busy season.
And if you'd like your employer to pay for the membership (some do), you can get the approval in ahead of end-of-year budget crunches!
Please don't hesitate to request a complimentary coaching call if you are curious whether it would be a good move for you.
It's fast and simple to sign up directly, give as a gift, or to arrange a group enrollment.
Client Quote of the Month!
"Could not have gotten here without you. Big thanks."
Catch Us on the Road in 2024
Here is the upcoming travel schedule for those who might want to piggyback on these locations to arrange a:
Here is what we know today about where Erin (Pink) Mosley plans to be:
October: Seattle WA area (tentative). Eastern and Western Massachusetts.
WEFTEC and Empowering Women in Industry events are in our hometown in October as well. Erin (Pink) Mosley has been invited to speak on Innovation Leadership at Empowering Women on October 10. Link for information and tickets.
January (tentative): Boston, MA area
February (tentative): Portland OR area
Other "tour dates" will be added as confirmed. And remember, you can always come to our home base in New Orleans or contact us to arrange something at your location.
- workshop or retreat (contact us for ideas!)
- in-person coaching (we sometimes call these GET'R DONE sessions e.g. 1.5 - 2.5 hours)
- in-person consultation to discuss working together
- social events and fun networking
Here is what we know today about where Erin (Pink) Mosley plans to be:
October: Seattle WA area (tentative). Eastern and Western Massachusetts.
WEFTEC and Empowering Women in Industry events are in our hometown in October as well. Erin (Pink) Mosley has been invited to speak on Innovation Leadership at Empowering Women on October 10. Link for information and tickets.
January (tentative): Boston, MA area
February (tentative): Portland OR area
Other "tour dates" will be added as confirmed. And remember, you can always come to our home base in New Orleans or contact us to arrange something at your location.
Go Ahead - Take a Look!
A photo gallery of recent programs and events.
(You can adjust your window or zoom to see more of the photos if they are cropped too small on your screen.)
* New Orleans was known for thousands of years as Bulbancha (Choctaw for "place of many tongues") and was an indigenous trading hub. Erin Mosley, Inc. calls this place home now - and we continue to learn more about all the peoples, cultures, and events that have happened here.
Lagniappe is said to be a modified form of a Louisiana French creole or cajun term that derives from the New-World Spanish la ñapa (gift), which in turn may have its origin in a Quechua word yapa (gift or tip).
Here on this page, we share a little extra news, curiosities, ephemeral tidbits, and passing fancies. In the spirit of giving you a lagniappe when you visit us.
