Empowering people to make strengthening choices
Hi My Friend, I wanted to make a quick announcement. I’m converting some of my content into audio products and publishing them through Listenable, an audio app for people who want great educational content wherever they go. Here is a short version (1 hour and 9 minutes) of my parenting course. It’s made up of […]
I recently read an analogy about love written by Don Luis Miguel called the magical kitchen. I want to share and also expand on his analogy in my post today. It’s about opening your heart to the love inside. The Magical Kitchen Imagine that you have a magical kitchen. You have any food you want […]
Hi my friend, I recently launched my new course entitled “Leadership to Engage Hearts and Minds: 17 Tools to Improve Your Team Management and Build Employee Engagement.” Increase the motivation, commitment and engagement of your team members Create a positive climate in which people want to give their best Spend less time reacting and fighting […]
Research tells us that 70-80% of leaders spend a good deal of their time in a reactive mode. You probably know what I mean. They’re down in the weeds, sometimes fighting fires or dealing with the crisis of the moment or handling day-to-day issues to keep an organization running smoothly. And, I get that some […]
In my last blog post, I shared my personal bias that most employees want to succeed. They want to contribute and make a difference. Furthermore, it’s our job as leaders to make this possible by creating a culture which empowers people; a culture in which everyone wants to give their best. Yet so often this […]
In my transition from practicing psychology to full-time consulting, I was asked to serve as a director of Human Resources for a 2000-person electronics firm in the Pacific Northwest. My initial reaction was “No. I have no training in HR and am not qualified.” However, after some back and forth with the company president, I […]
I’ve been thinking about my parents lately. They were part of what we commonly refer to today as the “greatest generation,” those souls born between 1901 to the late 1920s. We call them the “greatest generation” because they lived through a number of defining moments including World War I, the Spanish Flu epidemic, the great […]
Many people are overwhelmed by fear, uncertainty, stress, and anxiety as the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across the globe. So, my purpose in this article is to give you a process to help you face your fear and manage your negative emotions during this time of upheaval. Face your fear and negative feelings associated with it […]
