One of the reasons I like the Latin partnered dance community and the Bikram yoga community is that you don’t spend a lot of time verbally communicating. 😋 I don’t like small talk. 🤷🏾♀️ I don’t get energy from meeting people for the first time. I am weary of the…
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LEADERSHIP LESSONS FROM DANCE – RETURNING TO STEP 1
In Salsa Dancing the first step is the hardest. In leadership we can learn from the lessons of partnered dance. 💃🏽Every time you return to the count of 1 you have to stabilize yourself and push hard to reset. Like in life and leadership, just because you have been there…
Leadership Lessons from Dance – Basics
I was teaching a Salsa private lesson recently and we were going over an intermediate move – a wrap. It’s when the lead turns the follow while holding both hands and at the end of the turn the lead wraps their arms around the follow as they transition from one…
Leadership Lessons from Dance – Choices
Recently during a salsa group lesson on spins my instructor, Marcus Negron, pointed out that sometimes we talk about our body as though it is a different entity from ourselves rather than owning that we are choosing to do something. When we fall out of a spin we might say,…
Leadership Lessons from Dance – Signals
As I drove to dance practice recently I witnessed an action in everyday life that I then interpreted through dance and translated into leadership. I’m so excited to share it: OBSERVATION I exited off the highway/freeway and turned on my blinkers to alert other drivers that I was exiting. I…