Dropping the Knife of Judgment
How do we move beyond our political rancor and division? Where do we find the foothold to move forward?
Emotional Intelligence
#Microjoy to Engage Optimism
With days away from the election and heading into a COVID winter, we are full on into disruption. Engage #microjoy for optimism and happiness.
How to Be Safe – Really
Ignoring Inclusion Safety is as deadly and negatively contagious as any pandemic. We need hand, head and heart all engaged for collaborative problem solving and solutions.
COVID-Brain Coping Relief
There are many excellent strategies for COVID coping. Validation is a maximum-effect-with-minimum-effort emotional intelligence practice that increases engagement and COVID Brain relief.
Who’s Your Team Toad? A Personal Path to Inclusion
Projection creates the categories of us and them. It’s our fast track to polarization, to exclusion, to the need to dominate what we fear we cannot control. It’s also a vicious circle because when we’re alienated from what is within us, we will aggressively attempt to control and subjugate what is without.
Don’t Be Fine: Your Team Needs You!
Fine is devoid of the emotional connection and sharing that is essential to professional success. Here are practical tips to invite greater engagement in your team meetings.
Dear Team: Don’t Fence Me In!
How Essential Motivator (Temperament) Theory helps us recognize our core psychological needs, values and talents, and better leverage our differences together.
Stay Strong! Show Your Emotions
In this time of chronic uncertainty, it can be a real struggle to know how to stay strong, carry on – and to show (or not to show) your emotions.
Welcome the Stranger: Close to You
Leadership is the practice of learning and adapting, rather than executing expertise. Humility, curiosity and vulnerability replace polarization as we collectively move things forward.
Reality Testing: A Lifeline in the Storm
Thriving on chaos is a core leadership skill, but when we don’t know where to point our compass, it’s stressful. We’ve lost a vital sense of control.