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 – 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 – Moments of Pause
Typically when I start my salsa private lessons I talk about how in salsa we take 6 steps within 8 counts and that there are two moments of pause or a breath at the 4 and 8 counts. I point this out first so that as the lesson progresses I…
Leadership Lessons from Dance – Will the Real Leader Please Stand Up
I know I am making an impact in my dance community when during teacher training we were told to partner up and for leaders to all face the same direction. So I did but then the lead next to me shifted to face the opposite direction and I in turn…