Team Building

Leadership Strategies: Nature and Team Building

27 May, 2010Collaboration, Communication, Decision Making, Leadership, Nature, Relationships, Team Building, The Country Place, Workplace Relationships

Off sites have gone through much iteration over the past decade; we have gone from the exhilaration of river rafting and indoor climbing walls, offering employees fun and entertainment, to let’s just get “the business” done. In the present environment companies are demanding goal-driven, results-oriented retreats. This no nonsense approach...

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Leadership and Discovery

14 May, 2010Business, Collaboration, Communication, Conflict, Conflict Resolution, Executive Teams, Family Business, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, leadership development, Leadership Strategies, Patterns, Team Building, Transformation, Workplace Relationships

One of the most exciting aspects of being an executive, an entrepreneur, and employee is what you can learn about yourself, on the way to completing a strategic plan, a new product launch, or finishing the filing. Amazing things happen when you pay attention. “Attention to what?” you ask. Attention...

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Leadership Strategies: Getting and Giving

7 Apr, 2010Collaboration, Communication, Conflict, Education, Leadership, leadership development, Leadership Strategies, Patterns, Reflections, Team Building, Transformation, Workplace Relationships

Last week we had an amazing group of young people at our retreat center, The Country Place Retreat and Conference Center, in the Pocono Mountains of Pa.; they give hope for the future! They were inner city teens from New York who all had difficult times as children. Yet, the...

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Leadership and Creativity

1 Feb, 2010Collaboration, Communication, Consulting, Diversity, Economy, Education, Employers, Ethics, Executive Teams, Honor, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, PatternAware, Patterns, Power, Psychology, Reflections, Super Achiever, Team Building, Transformation, Trust

Leadership and creativity are linked at a core level. Great leaders are also artists in many areas. The following amazing photographs show us how, if we trust each other and find that core creative place, we can make the ordinary extraordinary!   In Japan, rice is essential to life, both...

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Elegant Leadership and Risk Taking

19 Jan, 2010Accountability, Avoider, Boss, Business, Coaching, Collaboration, Communication, Conflict, Consulting, Diversity, Economy, Education, Employers, Ethics, Executive Teams, Human Resources, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, leadership development, Management, Media, Money, PatternAware, Patterns, Power, Psychology, Super Achiever, Team Building, The media

Recently Jeff Zucker, President and CEO of General Electric Co’s NBC Universal Entertainment, told PBS interviewer Charlie Rose: “It’s the sign of a leader to step up and say you know when something’s not working, and have the guts to reverse it”. By the end of the interview, it was...

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Leadership Strategies: Confidence to Do It Yourself

29 Dec, 2009Coaching, Communication, Health, Holiday, Leaders, Leadership, leadership development, PatternAware, Patterns, Team Building, Women in the workplace, Workplace Relationships

Boy, can the little ones teach us to pay attention to how we respond to life! And, they can be a great monitor for us, even better than the most experienced adult. Here is a fun, and also deeply important incident that happened over the weekend.   My husband Herb...

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Humans and Universals

14 Dec, 2009Business, Coaching, Collaboration, Communication, Economy, Education, Employers, Ethics, Human Resources, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, leadership development, Management, Team Building, Workplace Relationships

In today’s Managing Leadership blog, there are some fascinating thoughts about how everything is connected; who we are, what we do and which elements – physical or psychic – drive our behavior. These are important concepts that too often are left in the dirt of the road as executive leadership...

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Leading and Telling

2 Dec, 2009Boss, Coaching, Communication, Conflict, Education, Employee burnout, Employers, Fear, Human Resources, Leaders, Leadership, leadership development, Management, PatternAware, Team Building

What happens when you feel the world is closing in and you just have nothing left to give? What do you do when the tensions and stress of daily life seem to escalate rather than subside? What happens when you feel like you are driving on empty? Most of us...

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Large and In Charge

1 Dec, 2009Business, Coaching, Communication, Conflict, Consulting, Education, Ethics, Executive Teams, Leaders, Leadership, leadership development, PatternAware, Patterns, Team Building, Workplace Relationships

When you think of leadership, what are the key words that come to mind? Most will make a list that includes: Powerful, Capable, Confident, Ambitious, Risk Taker, Effective, Charismatic, and so on. The discussion continues on blogs and in articles about what constitutes effective leadership, what we need to include...

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The Tiger and the Truth

1 Dec, 2009Accountability, Communication, Conflict, Ethics, Health, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, Marital coaching, Media, PatternAware, Patterns, Team Building

Lots of buzz about Tiger Woods and a party girl coming to the surface after the car crash on Thanksgiving. What does it mean to you and to me? Does it really matter if he is having an affair? Does it matter that he won’t talk to the police? Does...

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