Archive for August, 2009
The Heart of Listening
Our staff has been busy putting together a new workshop on active listening. It has our CEO stamp because it helps people look at the underlying patterns, learned in childhood that we bring with us to the workplace. This program is to improve communication skills, impact workplace relationships, help with...
Read MoreTo Your Health
The furor over health care points to a core concern in our society; the way we discuss and decide important issues. Learning how to talk about and resolve contentious subjects should begin at home and in school. It rarely does. Share This
Read MoreDisappointments: Move to Action
Sorry if things are unfair and your dreams are turning from bold colors to faded fragments. Guess what, instead of putting your head down and stewing you do something. The question is “What”? You have a choice; question is “Choose what”? In our “Total Leadership Connections program“ there is a...
Read MoreLeadership Strategies and Juggling
In our executive leadership development program we teach juggling. Yes, juggling. We don’t use plates or fire burning torches. The high potentials, entrepreneurs, and seasoned managers in our courses learn to juggle personalities. The capacity to hold lots of swirling egos without having them fall to the ground is the...
Read MoreDare to Vacate
These few weeks before Labor Day are the ones that scream out “STOP”. This is the end point before the next beginning. This is the last of those lazy days before the autumn surge. School soon moves into high gear. Work takes on a more intense flavor, executive leadership programs,...
Read More4 Tips to Better People Management
Last week when I visited Pilgrims Pride I saw the power of how good people management and a vision of “whole people at work” can make a difference. One reason, among many, has to do with their Human Resource department. Share This
Read MoreAbout Leading
One hot sunny day last week we drove two hours east to visit with some human resource executives at Pilgrim’s Pride in Pittsburg, Texas. Share This
Read MoreBeing Smart with Nature
When I was at Google last month I had the pleasure of hearing Dan Goleman talk about his new book “Ecological Intelligence”. Dr. Goleman has been, and continues to be a pioneer in “new thinking”. Share This
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