Shakespeare wrote: There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. Our mindset impacts the quality of our lives every moment we are alive. What is your mindset right now? Are you looking forward to the destination/outcome of completing a task or goal or are you enjoying the journey? If you are like me, goal driven and future
I saw a post that left me with that ‘ugh’ feeling deep in my gut…it was lumping leaders into boxes of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ based on eagerness to be measured by an assessment. There are many reasons why a leader may be hesitant– from poorly managed past assessments to personally not feeling psychologically safe – a lack of eagerness isn’t
Is it a problem to fix or a pattern to heal? There is so much power in the shifting of focus from a ‘problem to fix’ to a ‘pattern to heal’. Patterns are found all around us – it is impossible to step into nature without being surrounded by them. Our existence as humans is no different. We and the
“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face”. This Mike Tyson quote is one of my favorites because, well…life. Let’s be honest, we can have the best laid-out plans, we can put everything and everyone in place for it all to go perfectly and then…life happens. Everything shifts. It all falls apart. Those perfectly laid out plans that
How to successfully navigate team dynamics Sigmund Freud discovered many years ago that it is part of normal human life to project our innermost fears, judgments, hopes and dreams onto others. There are many management books, intervention tools, and thoughts on what to do about this when it happens in a work setting. When we load another person up by
