Healthy Conflict: Resolution towards Success
Raise your hand if you enjoy handling conflict! Try saying this at your next team meeting and see how many hands go up… Probably very few, if any, and it won’t be because they didn’t hear you! You’ll probably observe anxious facial expressions, fidgeting, or people...
Self-Management: 5 Ways to Lead by Example
Meg Whitman, former CEO of eBay got to keep her job, despite the unfavorable media coverage and a six-figure settlement. After allegedly yelling at an employee and shoving the individual, many may not have been so fortunate. Thanks to her position and title, she got...
Creativity & Innovation: Engaging Your Whole Mind
“Every child is an artist. The problem is staying a child when you grow up.” - Picasso Many of us believe that gifts of creativity belong to artists, musicians, and writers, and the rest of us are unoriginal and unimaginative. This is a myth! Creativity holds just as...
Empathy: Seeing through the Lens of Others
Empathy - the ability to identify with and care about others by seeing and understanding the world through their eyes. Serving the customer is the sole reason a business exists. The success equation is pretty simple: No customers, no business. On the other hand, when...
Healthy Conflict: A Backbone without Pride
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela A growing organization that was thought to be revolutionary in its field of research had a thorn in its side. The VP of R&D and the VP of operations could not even look one another in the eye. Each...
Problem Solving: Bridging Minds
“Some of the greatest advances happen when people are bold enough to speak their truth and listen to others speak theirs.” – Ken Blanchard “Disruptive, controversial, futuristic, and unique,”[i] are the words writer Ken Carlton uses to characterize the extraordinary...
Success Depends on You!
It is clear that in today’s fast paced and economically challenged environment; the competency of personal accountability is certainly one of the top attributes a successful leader must bring to the workplace. Those who are personally accountable experience a much...
Muscles of Gratitude
Navigating life successfully requires facing difficulty with authenticity. We often grow the most during times of trial and tribulation. Hardship builds muscles of compassion, empathy, intentionality, persistence, will, endurance and faith. These strengths enable us...
Servant Leadership: Leading from Behind
“If serving is below you leadership is beyond you.” - Anonymous There are two kinds of leadership: power and service-oriented. Lead by authority, or lead by example. The world has seen leadership by authority for centuries. We now know that leadership by example is...
Leave a Mark
“I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.” ― Abraham Lincoln I just don’t get him… Why do they always…? Why doesn’t she ever…? Have you ever finished one of these sentences in reference to a coworker? It’s ironic that we often say or think these things...