Turn Positive Thinking into a Method for Reframing Obstacles
Year of Resilience Tip #11: Think Positive Positive thinking is not avoiding negative reality, but reframing it so you have the power to make productive change. This week’s tip is to turn positive thinking into a method for reframing obstacles. There is a...
Understanding Gratitude and How to Implement it in Your Life and at Work
Year of Resilience Tip #10: Practice Gratitude Research around gratitude is one of the secrets of a resilient life. Understanding gratitude and how to implement it in your life and work teams will strengthen your ability to The tip this week is to begin...
How to Create Resilient Goals
Year of Resilience Tip 9: Create Resilient Goals “A Goal without A Plan is Just a Wish” The origins of this modern proverb are unknown, but it gets to the heart of why goals generate stress in our lives. We know something needs to happen. We have a vague sense of what...
4 Reasons to Invest in Developing Your Leaders
Leadership development is crucial for any organization that wants to succeed and thrive in today’s fast-paced business world. However, many companies struggle to invest in this important aspect of their operations. While 86% of business and HR leaders agree that...
Tips for Managing Your Thoughts
Our internal conversation about people and events determines many of our own stress triggers. Learning to reframe forces deep self-awareness and will help you short-circuit the flight or flight stress response. The tip this week is to be mindful of your inner...
The Importance of Emotional Intelligence in Leadership
Do you have the traits of an emotionally intelligent leader? “What really matters for success, character, happiness, and lifelong achievements is a definite set of emotional skills – your EQ — not just purely cognitive abilities that are measured by conventional IQ...
Learn How to Accept and Navigate Conflict
Year of Resilience Tip 7: Accept and Navigate Conflict Avoiding conflict creates a build-up of stress. Learning how to manage conflict leads to a peaceful work life and the ability to deflect the effects of stress. The tip this week is to embrace interpersonal...
Be Comfortable with Confrontation
Year of Resilience Tip 6: Confront Relationship Challenges The thought of confrontation escalates stress in most people. Learning the skills of productive confrontation gives you a framework for lowering difficult conversations. Challenging issues become less...
5 Ways to Be More Self-Aware in 2023
Self-awareness is critical to so many aspects of leadership development. In order to continue to build your skill in motivating and inspiring people to accomplish great things you have to know yourself. You must know both your strengths and weaknesses as well as how...
How to Get Comfortable with the Uncomfortable Moments of Stress
Year of Resilience Tip 4: Don’t Fear Stress When we fear the emotions and feelings of stress, we accelerate their negative effects. Reframe your stress response as a signal for action. Changing your perception of stress allows you to regain power over life. The...
Identify and Manage Micro-Stressors
Year of Resilience Tip 3: Beware of Micro-Stressors Micro-stressors are like bees. One is annoying but a swarm could be deadly. It’s rarely the crisis events that derail you. It’s the small unseen stressors that accumulate until you are overwhelmed. The...
How to Be a Bold and Resilient Leader Who Leads Change
What organizations need now more than ever are resilient leaders willing to be bold and lead their people through change. Times are disruptive. Employee morale may be at its lowest level in years. We are all still recovering from the effects of the pandemic. ...
Stress as Energy – use stress to increase your work capacity
Year of Resilience Tip 2: Use stress energy to improve bursts of performance. Have you ever felt the rush of wind and spray of powder speeding downhill on snow skis? The first time you strapped on skis and stood at the top of a hill your stress responses went...
Understand Your Stress: Awareness is the Key to Managing it
Year of Resilience Tip 1: Awareness of your stress response is the key to managing it. The tip this week is to slow down enough to notice what your stressors are. Let’s start with the stressors. Can you define stress? Believe it or not, this is a fairly new term in...
5 Ways to Make Your Meetings Matter
Comics and critics lampoon meetings for their soul-sucking ineffectiveness. Back in 1957, Satirist and British Naval Historian Northcote Parkinson described a typical committee meeting starting with 4 to 5 members, quickly growing to 9 to 10, then ballooning to 20...
4 New Years Resolutions All Leaders Should Consider
Have you started thinking about resolutions for 2023? Over 38% of adults admit to setting New Year’s resolutions each year. Unfortunately, 23% quit within the first week, and only 36% make it past the first month. Only 9% of adults who set resolutions successfully...
5 Year-End Workplace Stressors and How to Handle Them
It’s that wonderful time of year of holidays and celebrations. We should be joyful and grateful, enjoying the success of another great year together at work. But, we are often stressed with unfinished work and high-priority items to close out the year. The news and...
What is Agile Leadership and Why is it Important?
When was the last time you took a ski trip with a group of friends and developed a completely new leadership methodology? Not only did it impact your business, but rippled throughout organizations throughout the globe. That’s the mythology behind the creation of...
The Leadership Foundations for a Thriving Work Culture
A thriving work culture is built on leadership. Leadership can extinguish the fires of the most enthusiastic employees if they do not display the right characteristics. Your intuition and experience tell you this is true. Think back on the great leaders you worked...
