Edwin Friedman described five characteristics of systems that promote burnout among their leaders. Understanding this can help you avoid the same fate. Part 1 goes through the characteristics. Part 2 helps leaders respond appropriately. Show Notes: Generation to Generation: Family Process in Church and Synagogue Read the Full Transcript on The Non-Anxious Leader website. Subscribe to my weekly ⁠Two for Tuesday⁠ emails.

Edwin Friedman described five characteristics of systems that promote burnout among their leaders. Understanding this can help you avoid the same fate. Part 1 goes through the characteristics. Part 2 helps leaders respond appropriately. Show Notes: Generation to Generation: Family Process in Church and Synagogue Read the Full Transcript on The Non-Anxious Leader website. Subscribe to my weekly ⁠Two for Tuesday⁠ emails.

Focus is being able to say "No" to things that are good, but may distract you from your most important work. Here are three ways to say "No" that will help you to self-differentiate. Show Notes: 3 Ways to Say No Without Feeling Like a Jerk, Backed by Interpersonal Relationship Science by Jeff Haden Read the Full Transcript on The Non-Anxious Leader website. Subscribe to my weekly ⁠Two for Tuesday⁠ emails.

To grow as non-anxious leader, you need to learn how to self-differentiate in your most difficult relationships. This episode covers five things that will help you to do this. Show Notes: How to Set Boundaries With a Difficult Family Member by Catherine Pearson Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself by Nedra Glover Tawwab Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships by Nedra Glover Tawwab Subscribe to my weekly ⁠Two for Tuesday⁠ emails.

Being a non-anxious presence doesn't come naturally. Here's what you can do to better prepare for difficult situations. Show Notes: People With High Emotional Intelligence Use 5 Simple Words to Become Exceptionally Persuasive by Bill Murphy Jr. Read the Full Transcript on The Non-Anxious Leader website. Subscribe to my weekly ⁠Two for Tuesday⁠ emails.

Understanding emotional process helps us to see how people deal with uncertainty and anxiety. This enables us to be less anxious and judgmental, as well as more compassionate. This episode shows you how. Show Notes: The Circle of Why by Kathleen Smith Read the Full Transcript on The Non-Anxious Leader website. Subscribe to my weekly ⁠Two for Tuesday⁠ emails.

Trust is a key factor in effective leadership. This episode shows how leadership through self-differentiation makes this possible. Show Notes: 7 common qualities of credible people by Gwen Moran The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything by Stephen M.R. Covey Read the Full Transcript on The Non-Anxious Leader website. Subscribe to my weekly ⁠Two for Tuesday⁠ emails.

Learning to deal with challenges, whether external or self-inflicted, involves taking responsibility for self. When we do this we increase our ability to respond to change and uncertainty. Show Notes: The episode incorrectly notes it was recorded on Sunday, March 25 but, in fact, was recorded on Sunday, March 26. Read the Full Transcript on The Non-Anxious Leader website. Subscribe to my weekly ⁠Two for Tuesday⁠ emails.

How we respond to challenge and crisis is a big factor in whether we will survive and even thrive. These three factors come from a lecture that Edwin Friedman gave in 1985. Show Notes: Generation to Generation: Family Process in Church and Synagogue The Center for Family Process Read the Full Transcript on The Non-Anxious Leader website. Subscribe to my weekly ⁠Two for Tuesday⁠ emails.

A Non-Anxious Leader knows the difference between a threat and a boundary. This episode goes through five differences, as described by Marianne van Dijk, and unpacks the family systems elements of each. Show Notes: cupofempathy.com Read the Full Transcript on The Non-Anxious Leader website.  Subscribe to my weekly ⁠Two for Tuesday⁠ emails.