We focus on our physical health. We join a gym. We wear Fitbits. We run. We stretch. We avoid greasy food and dessert. (Well, not always on that dessert part.) But what about our minds? Aren’t they equally as important? Like eating desserts, we indulge our fantasies –...
My best clients measure everything. They work with spread sheets. They put together graphs to show their team. They are obsessed with how they are doing, where they are going and how they will know it. One of my clients is exceptional at it. Admittedly, this is...
“If you stumble, make it part of the dance.” I saw this posted at my daughter’s dance studio and based on a recent experience I had thought “Exactly!” I gave a presentation to a group who were looking to learn a way to maximize their leadership effectiveness. During...
What happens when you have better conversations? Better relationships. And better culture. Attributed to the work of Judith Glaser in "Conversational Intelligence", participants in our Wednesday Corporate Workshop series explored increasing their conversational...
Find yourself in a conversation that somehow went awry? Feel like it’s not your fault? How to get back on track? This happened with a client whom we’ll call Mike. Mike enlisted our help to develop more conversational “soft skills” in managing his team. Mike...
I heard a young colleague say, when we were on the road and talking about a “generational” workshop she had been to, “You know, do they [my bosses] really think we’re all a bunch of lazy people?” This friend is brilliant. She works hard. She is the future of the...
Are leaders born? Or made? Or is it some combination of both? My experience says that it fundamentally comes down to this: Leadership is a choice. It is product of what we believe about ourselves in any given scenario. Our beliefs are our internal operating...
What to do when you have an idea, but don’t know where to begin? Or don’t have the right words to capture all the possibilities? Enter World Café. We recently work with a team who had been through some difficult communication challenges with its leader. When the...
One client of mine is extraordinarily effective at leading one of his teams. They listen to him. They know the drill. They buy into their team being as effective as possible. But he’s invited me in because of his woes with another team. It is filled with a...
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