Strategic Alliances
Nov 14, 2013 1:15:06 PM Strategic Alliances are important. I recently had lunch with someone who has long been an important business contact, and whom I consider a proponent and advocate of mine. I don’t often get to see her, sometimes years go by with only the occasional email or phone call between our in-person […]
How I Learned to Trust
Apr 15, 2015 10:01:48 AM It’s easy to know intuitively if you trust someone or not, but what behaviors lead to that decision? If trust is so commonly described as a quality that must be earned what happens between the time of introduction and the mystical moment when a person proves their mettle? Excerpt from The […]
Psychological Safety: Trusting Me, Trusting You
Feb 19, 2020 10:00:00 AM Trusting myself and others is part of my life-long learning. Feeling safe inside myself, at times, requires telling myself that I’m okay and equipped to handle what comes next. For me, self-coaching or soothing myself, has been an on-again, off-again practice for more than twenty years. The need to calm myself […]
Accountability and Shame
Oct 13, 2020 1:54:48 PM This week I listened to Brené Brown’s podcast (Dated July 1st) on Shame and Accountability. Brené is the leading researcher on shame and vulnerability and I have been a huge fan of hers for years. (See my picture with her at a book signing in Denver in 2012). The podcasts timing could not have […]
Pattern of Integrity
Pattern of Integrity Sep 19, 2012 1:32:56 PM I recently delivered our Leadership Basics program to a really great group at Bureau of Reclamation. This is a fun program to lead because the participants really love reconnecting with who they are. The morning of the first day, I do this exercise on values; because I believe that […]
Power of Why: Values, Mindset and Visioning
Power of Why: Values, Mindset and Visioning Sep 15, 2019 12:42:59 PM The Power of Why is a term used to define what is most important, or what creates passion, purpose, and meaning for one’s work. It is the great multiplier when it comes to motivation. People are motivated by extrinsic and intrinsic factors. Extrinsic […]
Cycle of Transformation
Cycle of Transformation Nov 11, 2019 8:33:35 PM A song that is speaking to me these past few months is Let’s Be Still by The Head and the Heart. The lyrics, “the world’s just spinning a little too fast…if things don’t slow down soon, we may not last…the world’s not forgiving for everyone’s fears…the days turn into […]
Shared Leadership
Shared Leadership Dec 11, 2009 9:12:41 PM I was working with a group this week and experienced a remarkable example of shared leadership. Shared leadership happens when members of a work group step forward with honest, forthright opinions, and direct feedback. There is a clear shift of power, when first one person takes the reins and points the group in […]
Defeated or Determined?
Defeated or Determined? May 26, 2010 10:22:39 PM So much of what is created in life is dependant on attitude. This week I am struck with my own attitude and how I vacillate between feeling defeated and determined. As some of you know, my husband was in a terrible accident about ten days ago. He […]
Practicing Gratitude
Practicing Gratitude Nov 30, 2010 12:48:02 PM I was listening to my iPod while traveling on business a few weeks ago, and the lyrics of a Sheryl Crow song really struck me, that “it’s not having what you want, it’s wanting what you’ve got.” Of course…right? Gratitude is obviously about being thankful for what you […]
