Good day, team, This week’s coach’s challenge is about learning to trust. When I first pondered this idea, I thought it was about trusting other people. But upon reflection, I realized that it was first about trusting myself and then trusting others. That is, we build trust by behaving reliably and by expecting the best […]
Good day, team, The coach’s challenge for this week is to refrain from gossiping and spreading rumors. I don’t think we gossip intentionally. My observation is that it tends to “happen to us.” That is, we hear or see something about someone else that we think is odd, or creates an emotional reaction in us, […]
Good day, team, The coach’s challenge this week is about abundance. Look around you. What do you see? Do you have everything you need? Do you have everything you want? What is the difference? Are you grateful for what you have, or do you find yourself constantly longing for what you don’t? Recently, I’ve been […]
Good day, team, The coach’s challenge this week is about not being afraid to lead. In thinking about this subject, I remembered a defining moment in my own life, when I was elected president of my eighth grade class. It was a hard campaign against the star quarterback of our junior high school, and I […]
Good Day Team, The coach’s challenge for the week is to inspire and energize your team members. Each of us has a certain amount of energy that we bring to our jobs each day. That energy is affected by the people we work with and the events that take place. Since we know that we […]
Good Day, Team, The coach’s challenge for the week is inspired by a quote from Albert Einstein: “A problem cannot be solved at the level of consciousness in which it occurs.” The challenge this week is to consider one problem you’re currently dealing with and find a completely different way to solve it. To create […]
Good Day Team, This week’s challenge is about strengthening intragroup connections. I’m using ‘intragroup’ as a word to describe ‘within the team’. It’s a good time to think about what you’re doing to strengthen the connections between people when you’ve recently added new people, re-organized people into new positions, and/or made changes to the way […]
Good Day Team, The coach’s challenge this week revolves around managing your boss. In the January 2005 special issue of the Harvard Business Review, there is an interesting article entitled “Managing Your Boss”. The article talks about “the process of consciously working with your superior to obtain the best possible results for you, your boss, […]
Good Day Team, The subject of this week’s challenge is “no blame”. As you may remember, I send this particular challenge out about every six months. Blaming others is so prevalent that I find it useful to remind myself and others what a waste of time and energy it is. The definition of blame is, […]
Good beginning of the week, everyone- The coach’s challenge of the day is to “celebrate what you want to see more of”. Throughout the week we often witness each other making an effort that goes above and beyond the usual standard of a “job description”. It may be a small gesture (over in a heart […]