Leadership in Action – Are your staff in FLOW?
Your 7-point checklist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, a Hungarian psychologist, coined the phrase “FLOW” t...Read More »
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Criticism vs. Feedback
Do you like being criticized? Does it make you feel like changing to accommodate your critic? In most situations, your a...Read More »
Impulses: The Good, the Bad and the Maybe
Have you ever gone shopping to buy just one or two things and come home with a couple of bags full? Let's talk about the...Read More »
The Unselfish Spirit
Everyone likes to give and receive gifts, and it doesn’t need to be only at a holiday time. Today, let’s talk about ...Read More »
Recognition and Affection
When your younger children crave attention, do they throw a tantrum, misbehave or act out inappropriately? If so, perhap...Read More »
New Perspective = Growth
Why is it so hard for some people to change? These folks deny the need to change, push back against any change, and can ...Read More »
Leadership in Action – The Idiot Response
While you want your team to collaborate and leverage each other’s ideas and efforts, more often than not, one or two m...Read More »
Conversations
Yesterday, we talked a bit about what we can do when adversity strikes. There is one more piece that needs to be added t...Read More »
Knocked Off Your Feet?
When adversity strikes, whether it be loss of your job, an illness, a natural disaster or when you take a big hit that r...Read More »
Back to the Brain
In the last 10 to 15 years, neuroscience has discovered so much about the physical properties of the brain, that researc...Read More »
Controlling Your Inner World
We hinted yesterday that each of us has more than one superpower. If you’ve given this a little thought, you have alre...Read More »
The Power of Focus
In this day and age of superheroes with superpowers, it’s important to remember that each of us has our own superpower...Read More »
Leadership in Action – Our Blink Response Makes for Bad Leadership
The immediate assumptions we wrap around ideas and information is our blink response. (Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book, Bl...Read More »
Changing Perspective
Today, imagine yourself as a business, one that manufactures several lines of product. Imagine that this organization is...Read More »
Activity and Accomplishment
If you are busier than you would like to be, but also less productive, then read on. As the world tentatively opens back...Read More »
A Perspective on Ego
Most people don’t want to think of themselves as having a “big ego,” because the picture that draws is of someone ...Read More »
Communicating Expectations
What do you expect from your kids? How do you communicate your expectations to them? Today, let’s talk about what’s ...Read More »
Passing Along Knowledge and Wisdom
What is a mentor? What is it that mentors do? Can having a mentor help you succeed? Today we’re going to be answering ...Read More »
Leadership in Action – 3 Styles of Decision Making
There are two fatal flaws in coaching others into better performance:
• Overuse of Command (micro-managing)
• Over...Read More »
To Be Fully Human
The ability to reason and understand is important to our well-being. But so is our ability to feel emotions. Let’s loo...Read More »
Taking On the Difficult
When you have a complex problem to solve, how do you go about solving it? Here is some information that might help you.
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Resetting the Picture
Did you know that, in at least one way, you are at your creative best when your system is out of order? When we talk...Read More »
A Matter of Self-Esteem
How do you respond to personal affronts or insults? If you have high self-esteem, they probably don’t bother you much....Read More »
Fear is a Choice
If you had a choice between love and fear, which would you choose? If you think the answer is obvious, then you might ju...Read More »
Leadership in Action – 5 Questions for Conducting Appreciative Inquiry One-On-Ones
As leaders, we generally have many opportunities to have one-on-one meetings with each of our direct reports. These meet...Read More »
Creating Lasting Change
What makes people want to change? Notice that we didn’t say, “think they should change.” There is a big difference...Read More »