Building Trust through Vulnerability
How vulnerability reveals blind spots and how courage is a muscle we can flex to build trust. Taking the temperature of your team: Are you noticing division and reserved communication between your team members? When expectations are misaligned, it becomes remarkably challenging for team members to stay engaged, perform tasks well, and solve problems across […]
Self Leadership in Times of Uncertainty
Thanks to COVID-19, we are in a time of major transition. It’s common during transitions to lose people, places, and things that were once standard in our lives. With shortages of basic necessities, we may become less concerned with material things, so that we can focus more on what matters most: our communities and the […]
Adversity is Good for Self Leadership
In workshops, naming the skills built on The Self Leadership Journey serves as an exercise for self-reflection and group learning. Participants chronicle the expertise they learned and the skills they developed during times of VUCA at any given point of their life, personally or professionally. When people share this journey with peers across teams they […]
Let’s Talk About Courageous Conversations
When it comes to hard conversations, the books Crucial Conversations and Crucial Accountability prove to be invaluable resources. Many companies implemented them in their professional development curriculum for employees to build their communication muscles to empower them to solve problems with peers before escalating. Essentially, employees are able to get the work done because of […]
Grow Yourself, Grow Your Business
Self leadership development is at the core of what I do, whether I’m providing executive coaching or facilitating a leadership development workshop. It’s usually interpersonal issues, such as our reactions to situations and how we view ourselves, which causes us to become stuck. The self is under more pressure today than ever before. The boundaries […]
How to Be Happy Right Now
Align your vision and celebrate progress Happiness is about now, not the future, but so many of us struggle with this concept. I know because I experience it myself. It’s the mental, physical, emotional, financial, and relationship challenges that prevent us from being present in the now and content in our current reality. What I […]
Master Your Facilitation Skills
Save Time, Be More Productive Ask any professional, and I’m sure they’ll have something to say about work meetings, particularly pointless ones. We’ve all had the eye-ball-roll-and-groan experience when that guy asks a question right at the end of the meeting – again. Or, the meetings that go so far down a rabbit trail you […]
Creating a Culture of Vulnerability at Work Through Leadership
In recent years, there have been multiple studies that indicate that vulnerability is a success factor in the workplace. Brené Brown, a name frequently associated with the topic of vulnerability, defines it as “uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.” Mutual trust is required for teams to work effectively, and vulnerability is the foundation of that trust. […]
4 Tips to Get the Most Out of Your Mastermind Group
A client who runs a mastermind group recently asked me how she could maximize the group’s time together. It’s a great question. With so many intelligent minds in one place, you want to soak in as much knowledge as you can. It may seem a daunting task, but it comes down to preparation and facilitation. […]
