Can you see yourself on the same level as those you consider “at the top” of your game? If you do, you’ll participate as if it’s the ninth inning and the game is close. The intensity and passion you will summon will be different than if you perceive yourself winning or losing by a lot. Many times, when you’re at…
Three simple rules in life: When it seems things are chaotic and challenging, how can these three rules cut through the clutter and help you move forward a little or a lot? Will you slow down to examine your thinking and imagine what’s possible?
Say exactly what you mean. There’s a concept! It’s very non-Midwestern. You won’t always be popular or please people, but you will be clear. You’ll also find the world around you (people, opportunities, events and rewards) will amplify. Too often, when trying to please others or deliver the message you think others want to hear instead of saying exactly what…
Silence. It can be the most welcoming, enveloping, and peaceful experience when outside standing still with snow falling soundlessly on a winter’s night. Silence can be the space you need to create, imagine, and renew. Silence can be a mechanism to contain your feelings when angry, confused, overwhelmed, or to demonstrate to someone you are disconnecting. Silence can be a…
When things get chaotic and seem to be out of control, disorganized, or out of sorts, it’s easy for overwhelm to be the result. When this happens, we must rely on structure and process to bring us back to a focused and organized world. One step at a time, we must look at our world from a 10,000 foot view…
Change management. It’s a topic that comes up all the time with my clients. When they talk about it, I’m always curious to ask, “what do you mean by change management?” Most often, they talk about the pace of change, the rate at which their team needs to learn to adapt to all that’s happening in the business, the new…
When you face the same situation repeatedly expecting different results, they call that insanity. Yet in the market today, the talent challenges are real. I’m in daily conversations with clients all over the world and everyone is challenged with their people. Most employers are expecting anywhere from 33-50% transition. How will we rethink our workplaces, our structures and our methods? …
As a feeling person, when the vast array of feelings collides all at once, it results in numbness for me. I can’t process them all, can’t feel anything, and am left in a void, feeling empty and wanting to disappear. If not disappear, I’d like to run away. Only I can’t. I must breathe, regroup, and center myself in something…
The world is fortunate to have you. What if we all believed this? How would we greet each other, meet challenges, work through concerns, explore differences, wake up each day and try things? When you greet the day with a solid belief in yourself, the world shows up to meet you there. How do we remind one another when we…
When you think about your team, do you recognize you’ll only go as far and as fast as the sum of all? It isn’t about any one of you, it’s about the collective. The intangible, connective tissue that bonds the team and makes those overlaps and gaps between you irrelevant. It’s about finding resources, accelerating what can be done, and…