- September 28, 2020Contemporary Issues
BLESSED ARE THE SPEED BUMPS!
This is a guest post written by Geno Olison. For more about Geno check out his bio below this post. While this post provides excellent, practical guidance about the work...
- March 25, 2020Contemporary Issues, Leadership
20 Questions to Help with COVID-19 Anxiety
As we get deeper into all of this, I can feel my own anxiety increasing and if what I’m seeing in my news feed is any indication, so is yours....
- March 15, 2020Systems Thinking
Systems Thinking in Anxious Times
I think that every leader I coached this week wanted to talk about coronavirus—actually, not the virus itself but the leadership challenges that it creates. Together, we remembered that this...
- January 24, 2020Emotional Maturity
Owning My Mess and Learning to See My Self More Clearly
I’ve been reading Brene Brown’s “Rising Strong” and recently finished the chapter about sewer rats and scofflaws. It speaks to how our self-righteousness and judgment of others and ourselves clouds...
- January 13, 2020Leadership
Let Us Help You Develop Leaders
A leader is not defined by how many followers you have but by how many leaders you create.” Mahatma Gandhi We believe this idea is a fundamental leadership concept, especially...
- January 3, 2020Leadership
Goals: It’s Complicated
Every year for at least 20 years, I spent January 1 happily working on my goals for the new year. And let me tell you, they were beautiful goals. Organized...
- December 11, 2019Emotional Intelligence, Guiding Principles
Managing Painful Feelings – Part 2
The subject line read “Help!” He sent me a long string of emails to read. His organization is engaged in a deep change process, and that the work has produced...
- November 8, 2019Emotional Intelligence
Managing Painful Feelings: Part 1
In my late twenties, I began seeing a counselor. After several sessions of trust-building, one day I complained about something in my life. My counselor asked: “How do you feel...
- October 30, 2019Emotional Maturity
A TOOL FOR NAVIGATING CHANGE IN A COMPLEX WORLD
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE The world is changing at a pace that is staggering. From the escalation of political polarization, to the increase of wealth disparity, to the increasing occurrence of...
- October 18, 2019Leadership, Self-care
When Leadership Hurts
What do you do when you open the email message cruelly outlining all your weaknesses and mocking your vulnerabilities and then realize that it wasn’t meant for you to see?...
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