Your Source of Motivation Needs To Come From The Inside
This post is about finding your true source of motivation for lasting change. While on vacation recently, I read an interesting magazine article by Marshall Goldsmith, a very famous executive coach. In speaking about an executive whom he is currently coaching, he wrote, “During the next year, Bill will be ...
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The Benefits of Paying Attention To People
New studies have shown that customers who feel they get special attention from someone serving them are far more loyal to the company that employs that person. Even when customers have a problem that doesn’t get resolved, if they think that the people helping them are doing everything they ...
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Some Suggestions for Creating More Balance in Your Life
This post is about balancing work life and personal life. I’ve often gone on vacation only to find myself more stressed than refreshed when I’m done. Vacation has more to do with a state of mind and how we spend our vacation than how much time we take off. ...
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Suggestions for Boosting Your Mental Faculties
The post is about boosting your mental faculties. Sounds scary, doesn’t it? But the article “11 Steps to a Better Brain” (see link below) offers simple suggestions on how to do it. The article is rather lengthy, so here is a brief synopsis: It doesn’t matter how brainy you ...
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The Strength of Authenticity In Leadership
This post comes from Kate Dwyer, the coach who works with me from time to time. There is much benefit in using what you have, rather than straining for what you don’t have. We waste a lot of time coveting and imitating the strengths of others, when we could just ...
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Every Act of Kindness is Crucial
This post is about how important being kind to others is in our lives. In reading about a current environmental disaster and the people who have been hurt by it, I cannot help but be grateful for what I have and to give what I can. When we are reminded ...
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The 8 Attributes of Supportive Communication
This post is about the 8 attributes of supportive communication. They speak for themselves. 8 Attributes of Supportive Communication Problem oriented, not person oriented – focus on how problems and issues can be changed rather than on people and their characteristics (“How can we solve this problem”, Not “Because ...
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How To Define and Deal With Power
The post is about abuse of power. People who are in positions in which they supervise, manage or strongly influence others are in positions of power. Along with this power comes a great responsibility. When our decisions, our behavior and even our general state of mind have a great affect ...
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Going With The Flow
This post is about going with the flow of nature and it’s rhythms. Observing patterns in nature is a wonderful way to bring relativity to any moment. When we become discouraged at work because we think nothing is getting better, we can look outside and see that things do, in ...
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Emerson’s Definition of Success
I saw this brief but wonderful piece by Emerson over the weekend and had to share it. I realize that oftentimes fewer words have a greater impact. “To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of ...
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How Not To Blame Others
This post is about how not to blame other people when things go wrong. We all fear failure to some extent. And when we fail, we often blame other people around us for mistakes we’ve made. Sometimes we can’t control the outcome of our actions because of natural occurrences: ...
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Some Thoughts About Delivering the Right Message
This post is about how we deliver the right message to each other. It’s what I call the ‘delivery sandwich’. We all know the shorthand of that: Good News/ Bad News/ Good News. Sandwich the bad news between two pieces of good news. Sandwich the weakness between two slices ...
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