Leadership Communication – Creating Clarity Easily
There can be some very definite challenges in our communication with teams, clients, prospects and peers. We are mostly moving too fast to communicate well while trying to complete a “to do” list that is probably way too long to accomplish ever. If you had to give...
Kids and Money and You
My beloved spring is here and I have so many weeds. It could be that is what I grow best. Actually, I don’t clean out my gardens and containers in the fall so the bugs and beetles and birds have places to hide and find yummy bugs. So I have weeds. Big ones with lots...
Spring – Our Lives Can Be Renewed
Hope is spring to me and spring time arouses hope. As a gardener and a curious sort, wandering around seeing the green tips of new life coming up from the dark, wet, cold earth NEVER gets old. I am sure if I were left in the earth through fall and winter, I would...
STOP!
In our leadership careers, we have read so many required books and heard numerous suggestions for: Creating a succession plan Communicating with difficult people Sales techniques for closing the deal with a prospect Management tips Budgeting for the short and long...
Leadership – Nothing Is Normal Now – Creating Relationship Strategies
Old Normal. New Normal. No Normal. Until 2020, the model for training, attracting and becoming a good leader was pretty obvious. We worked on creating best practices for the training effective leaders; designed good leadership succession programs for the organization;...
The RED Book
As I was preparing for the tornado watch this past weekend (which turned into a warning), I made sure that my RED Book was right by my laptop and phone. It is probably the most important physical piece of content in my home. WHY? It contains a physical copy of...
Take it apart, put it back together again
My son in laws are very talented and smart men, in their professions and in their personal lives. They could not be more different as individuals, but have the same outlook when something electrical and/or mechanical is not working. In evaluating a quick fix, it...
Communicating well/effectively is the Leadership evergreen skill to value most
Conversations through the years with leaders, executive and owners of businesses, support that communicating with impact and effectiveness is the skill they hope to use and then instill with their people. Learning to communicate well is a never ending opportunity for...
OK, Now I Get It!!
Sad is sad. Angry is angry. Happy is happy. It is not possible to be all those same emotions at the same time. However, we can certainly shift from happy to sad very quickly so it can feel like we are both at the same time. In coaching with a new client and her...
Where to begin, where to finish
When the top articles from our top business leaders discuss the impact of stress and anxiety in relation to ourselves and barely mention our engrained ideas of what leadership is, I listen. And so should you. Everything is different and it feels unfamiliar. We are...
