Are You Wasting Time on Self-awareness?
In working with high school teens and teams in corporations, my leadership and team building sessions start with questions designed to explore the need for [...]
Secrets to Make Sure Your Goals are not Gone with the Wind!
January is the time we set personal improvement goals - a.k.a. New Year’s Resolutions. We also set business goals designed to drive production and profit. Yet [...]
What’s On Your Calendar for Professional Development?
There are currently 37 “awareness topics” for the month of October. Sadly, “Professional Development” did not make the list. Personally, I think every month of [...]
Where Were You on 9/11
Last week I wrote about the power of reflection and processing the major events in the world and in your personal life. Today is the [...]
Where Were You When . . . ?
This weekend, while out for dinner with friends, we stumbled upon one of my favorite conversations starters, “Where were you when . . . ?” [...]
What’s On YOUR Bookshelf?
Several years ago, my new employer suggested that I join a networking group to learn how to “do the job” for which I was hired. [...]
Making Feedback Work for You
“Can I give you some feedback?” Researchers tell us that the reaction in our body upon hearing those words are like the body’s reaction upon [...]
Find Success – It’s In Our Nature
Spending time in nature is one of my life’s greatest pleasures. Luckily, time in the great outdoors also produces three potential benefits for our mind [...]
Will 2017 Be Your Year for Adventure?
If your New Year’s resolutions are retreads of years gone past and do not include adventure, it’s never too late to add some. What are [...]
Lessons Learned from Olympic Sized Dreams
For the past two weeks I have been motivated, inspired, and sometimes saddened by the events that unfurled in the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics. For [...]