Holiday stress is what too many people experience during a time that could be so much better. Hopefully, gathering for the holidays is a wonderful, warm, and blessed time for your family. But for too many others, it is nothing but "turkey and stressing", because of unresolved family issues or simply different preferences. For too many families, you can't talk about ...
Trying to control almost always ends up with a boomerang effect. The person controlling ends up being controlled. Is that what is happening with you? If you want to know if you are trying to control, the boomerang effect is a good sign that you are.Most control freaks find it challenging to label control as bad. How could trying to ...
Seldom will you find listening and asking questions to be essential skills for leaders.But why? It's a glaring imbalance in leadership training that overwhelmingly focuses on speaking and persuasion. Think of it this way - many people make a living providing speeches for organizational events. Being a persuasive, fun speaker is highly valued. They will often have a "Keynote Speaker" for ...
It's time to Act—Learn—Adjust! If you create a clear THERE, clear HERE, and the PATH with a Personal Planning Form, that is an excellent first step when you want to get things done. You have some thoughts on how to get THERE. So, execute your plan.THP helps you create a plan, but you do not know if it will work. We like ...
One of the first things you need if you want change in your life or organization is to identify your THERE! A clear THERE is the start of even radical change. Great inventions, plans, and achievements are the result of a clear THERE.Okay, here is the definition of THERE - your desired end result. THERE is what you want to ...
Few consider listening to be a critical leadership skill, much less, one of the most critical skills for life and relationships. Curiosity will help!When leadership is aligned primarily with persuasion and charisma, you won't hear anything about the most underrated leadership skill - listening!And, most people have trouble listening. Why is listening so important? Because without it, you have much ...
You have thoughts running around in your mind and you are confused. Clear thinking isn't happening with so many options to consider. It seems impossible to filter the information so you can make a decision in a simple, clear way.For me, those times become even more challenging when my feelings are engaged or when I assume something is very complex.Actually, ...
The desire to know when you actually don’t is a powerful force in people. In his book The Leader's Handbook, Peter Scholtes provides some interesting research and observations about opinion. His research data comes from the business arena, specifically manufacturing, where measurable data is available.So, his research is on something other than highly charged emotional issues about religion or politics, ...
Your productivity and values increase or decrease based on how you deal with two physical laws. Even if you do not know about the laws, they still impact you. So, if your productivity is not good, blame it on Entropy and maybe inertia as well.It is hard to imagine anything you do that ISN'T subject to those two laws. Your ...
Humility is something people value, but don't see in their leaders. In fact, only 25% rate their leader as humble. That means humility is critical and rare for leaders!In fact, in a survey of more than 1,750 executives worldwide, only 25% of the people in an organization believed their chief executive officer was humble. That comes from research done by ...