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Achieving Work-Life Balance
One of the biggest reasons for stress is the inability to find balance in our lives. Perhaps the focus on seeking work-life balance frustrates many of us because the equation is all wrong. Work is not...
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Five Essentials of Meeting Facilitation
Sometimes seeing something done poorly makes me better appreciate why things should be done a certain way. This was the case when I witnessed a recent meeting facilitation. I had an opportunity to...
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Virtually Connected Yet Digitally Distracted
Our reliance on smartphones not only enables us to connect with each other at any time and any place, it has also changed the nature of our connections in a profound way. Because we have a phone that...
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Listening Your Way to Success
How often do you struggle to get people to buy what you’re selling? I’m not suggesting you are a sales person, per se. However, all of us are selling something whether it’s seeking the boss’s...
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Learning Skills: Knowing vs. Doing
So often knowledge and skills are linked together as a single unit. And while there is certainly a strong link between what we know and what we can do, these terms need to be uncoupled in order to...
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Reducing Office Politics Through Soft Skills
Admitting you don’t know the answer. Apologizing when you’ve made a mistake. Putting yourself in another person’s shoes. Not speaking poorly about someone behind their back. These are things we learned...
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Tim Duncan: The Selfless Leader
Earlier this week a great leader and perhaps the best power forward to ever play in the NBA quietly retired from the game. In his typical understated fashion, Tim Duncan stepped away from the game he...
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Telling the Truth to Yourself & Your Boss
Sometimes the most difficult part of being fully present and connected in the workplace requires simply speaking the truth: to yourself and to others. Because we are often reluctant to be emotionally...
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The Measure of Leadership
How do you size up a leader? Do you choose and accept him or her based on the perspective of your particular newsfeed? Or do you assess a leader based on who your friends and family respect? Does it...
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Lifelong (Workplace) Learning
It’s nearing the end of summer and time for the kids to go back to school. September should also remind us that lifelong learning is vital in order for each of us to stay relevant at work and vibrant...
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Managing Conflict in the Workplace
Conflict occurs in all relationships. It is natural and it can be detrimental only when it is ignored or not dealt with appropriately. When handled well at work, conflict can strengthen relationships,...
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The Value of Thought Diversity
As much as we have learned the importance of diversity in the workplace, it is often focused on gender, race and ethnicity. Thought diversity is more subtle, but just as important. That’s because our...
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5 Steps to Behavioral Change
Whether you are trying to lose weight, run a marathon, secure a new job, or change your behavior to be more effective in the workplace, you are the primary driver of your success. As Henry Ford put it:...
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Thriving in the Workplace
We live at a time when employee engagement is especially low. Employees are dissatisfied, discouraged and disinclined to be optimally productive. This is bad for both employers and employees. According...
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Collaborator in Chief
The result of the recent presidential election means Donald Trump will become leader of the United States of America. However, I don’t recall him ever previously referred to as a business leader or any...
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Passive-Aggressive Behavior at Work
Effective communication is important to every successful organization because it enables the dissemination of information needed by employees to get things done and it builds relationships based on...
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Leader as Storyteller
Let me tell you a story. Nothing perks up an audience like those few words because we are wired for story. It is in our very DNA as we have told and listened to oral stories from the very beginning of...
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Courage in a Time of Uncertainty
In the face of these uncertain times, it is necessary for each of us to be brave. Though it is easier to simply follow along and protect what we currently have, we also need the courage to stand up for...
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Leadership Lessons from New POTUS
We can learn a great deal from leaders who model excellent behavior and traits we want to emulate. Other times, when we see poor behavior and traits that demonstrate ineffective leadership, we can...
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Presence in the Age of Distraction
Perhaps it’s a sign of the times, but never before have I felt it so difficult to be present. Whether this is about mindfulness, grounded or being in the moment, the ability to stop multitasking and...
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