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“Vote with Your Feet” Doesn’t Mean Leave – It Means to Take to the Streets
Lately I have heard several people tell me the reason they left an organization, cause, school, church or political party was because they were proudly “voting with their feet”. Think of a world where anything I was involved in and which I did not agree forced me to...
How Alive is Your Organization?
If you had to rate how you alive your organization is on a scale of 1 to 10, what would your number be? For our organizations to be alive, we have to ensure the right mix of the business and human components. When companies set the intention on moving towards a...
Creating a Successful Culture
My client’s business has two thriving locations and he stood to inherit a third. This is when he came to me with a question for our coaching agenda. “How,” he asked, “do you change culture? Can it be done?” In his case, he described his existing culture as “a...
The Mindfulness Files: Compassion Gets the Customer
If you’ve been following the Olympics, you have no doubt seen some of the coverage given to the athletes who are adopting some of the stray dogs that roam Sochi. Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, and silver medalist, Gus Kenworthy have teamed up to provide the...
Here and Now…But How?
Being in the now is harder than we think. It means we actually have to get out of our head and into what is going on right now within us and all around us. It is good to be aware of the triggers that bring you into the present. When I am in the now, I always seem to...
Receiving Feedback – Sitting Down & Enjoying the Meal
In Parts 1 and 2, we spoke about how to give great feedback. We compared it to serving a great meal: first setting the table, to then creating and serving the meal. In this last part, we look at how to receive feedback. In other words, how to sit down, eat and enjoy...
Forget About Work-Life Balance – Part II
The task of creating work-life balance can sometimes feel just too challenging. In those cases, it might be fruitful to have another perspective. One way to think about it, is to notice that just by having opposing forces, a push-pull is created that keeps you from...
Critical Thinking – Vision, Knowledge & Experience
Sometimes we are stuck on the rails of life. Just putting one foot in front of the other and feel like we are getting things done. And we are. But, are we stepping back critically and looking at where we intend on going? An important part of thinking critically, is to...
Admiration: Incorporating Those Characteristics
I always ask my clients for people they admire and look up to. It is important to recognize these people because when we incorporate their characteristics into ourselves, we are moving forward toward the person we know we can and truly want to be. One of the people I...
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