Are you subject to “willful blindness”? Are you or your organization putting on blinders to go into denial and not address a critical situation? I...
Aspirational value or guiding principle? There’s a big difference.
Defining your personal values can be fun and there are plenty of exercises available to take. You get clarity on who you see yourself as being and wha...
What is the Meaning? The Sixth Stage
The way things were will be changed forever. Just like our way of life changed after 9/11, the pandemic has made its imprint. We can’t yet see how t...
Clarifying Your Values Now – Have they changed?
Values are your core set of guiding principles, a statement of what is so important to you that it cannot be compromised for material gain. The key qu...
6 Feet Apart is Better Than 6 Feet Under
With no definitive assurances that we are doing the right things, social distancing is proving to help quell the Covid-19 virus from getting even wors...
Are You Paying Attention?
Attention is caring – it requires suspending our focus on ourselves and placing our awareness on the “other.” Indian philosopher, Krishnamurti w...
Understanding the Link between Psychological Safety and Team Effectiveness
Guest Blog Post By Laura S. Scott Imagine you’re a team member tasked with a highly complex problem and your boss tells your team, “Failure is...
Leading with T.R.U.S.T.
by Gerri Vereen Trust is like the air we breathe. When it’s present, nobody really notices. But when it’s absent, everybody notices. –Warre...
Purge Perfectionism and Be Happier
Perfectionism is sometimes justified as having high standards. No one brags about low standards. You go too far when you become consumed with “g...
Talk to Me: How to conduct an informal 360
As the year winds down, it’s important to review how you are doing in relation to goals you have set, professionally and personally. A great way to ...
Assessing the Emotional Intelligence Factor – Part 2
Improving your EI is about managing your inner response to things and choosing a new way to handle your inner reaction to people and situations. For e...
Assessing the Emotional Intelligence Factor – Part 1
The biggest reason leaders fail is not intelligence or IQ, but lack of emotional intelligence or EI. Fortunately, EI is developable; IQ isn’t. Resea...