How to Get Uncomfortable and Elevate Your Leadership in 2021
New leaders often don’t realize that that saying “yes” to leadership requires stepping out of the comfort zone. Avoidance is no longer a strategy. It’s up to you to navigate through the cultural politics, make difficult decisions and resolve conflict between employees...
How to Bust 3 Anger Myths
Many leaders share a common yet secret concern: a belief that they may have an anger problem. But as I often tell my clients, anger is not a problem and should not be viewed as such. Anger is a part of the human experience. While it’s true that anger mismanaged can be...
How To Tell When Your Managers Are Conflict-Averse
If in your organization there’s a high-conflict person causing disruption where team members walk on eggshells, their boss may request coaching for the high-conflict individual. Before saying yes, consider that the problem has not been accurately defined. There’s only...
Practical Ways to Lead Yourself During a Crisis
As our world deals with the COVID-19 pandemic, we see that the uncertainty factor can be itself dangerous by causing fear and panic. A leader’s job in times of crisis is all about alignment, and alignment is about focusing energy. To keep everyone else focused, it’s...
Paradox and Pain of our Time
My heart hurts for our country. I feel the pain of injustice, systemic racism, and implicit bias. And I also feel the fear and the pain of being misunderstood. I want to be a bridge, but a bridge has to be strong enough to bear the weight of connecting two sides. We...FREE DOWNLOAD
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