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Giving Back

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Serve the community that serves you. It’s important to look for how we might gain something for ourselves, our project, and our organization when we give our time to a training event, a strategic planning session, or some other collaborative group effort. After all, to support our individual and collective growth and sustainability is a […]

Make a Connection

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Connecting with yourself and others builds the ground for collaboration.  I view human connection as the emotional connection upon which trust is built. In all human affairs, these relationships either enable things to work or cause them to fall apart. All else is secondary. To create a connection with others, be connected with yourself: Be […]

Recruit the First Follower

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How many times have you experienced a great learning or insight and returned to your workplace wanting to share it with everyone only to be met with a lukewarm response? This is a common concern we hear from those who attend our Journey Workshops…If only I could give my colleagues at home even a taste […]

Face & Embrace All Resistance (FEAR)

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Fear is our greatest impediment to effective leadership. From my work as a facilitator, coach, and consultant, I would wager that we have all been paralyzed, or at least slowed by fear at some point. Operating from fear, our capacity for reason, compassion, and long-term effectiveness erodes. Our actions are usually sub-optimal if not downright […]

Be a Catalyst for Clarity

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It’s easy when we’re trying to present something new, particularly in a training and development environment, to be overwhelmed by all that we want our participants to know on the subject. As good trainers, teachers, and facilitators, we want our audience to get the most learning in the least time. The problem is that this […]