Category: Trust
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Do This When Your Team Feels Unappreciated
Are you hearing that your team doesn’t feel appreciated? Even though you feel like you put effort into saying thank you, they are always hungry for more. Do employee engagement surveys indicate dissatisfaction? Even though there are all kinds of employee recognition programs in place. For acknowledgment to really stick, it must be grounded in…
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5 Ways to Engage Quiet Staff in Meetings
I was recently asked how a leader could get quiet team members to speak up more in meetings. The truth is, change doesn’t begin with the quiet team members, but with you.The secret to encouraging engagement and participation rests with you and your skillfulness in 5 specific areas.
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Turning Conflict Into Collaboration
Even in healthy conflict, if what you want to express is left unsaid because you’re not comfortable saying it, it simmers and eventually boils over. The outcome can be far worse than if it had been discussed immediately. And over time, those simmering, suppressed thoughts can be misdirected and come out sideways as sarcasm, blaming,…
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Gossip – It’s Just Like Sugar
Gossip is as addictive as sugar. It can also be damaging and slowly wear and tear at the vital framework that keeps a group or a team cohesive, a family solidified, and an organization moving towards its goals. Breaking the gossip habit is a powerful way you can positively impact your own happiness, even when…
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It just ain’t true!
For a long time, I believed an untrue story about myself. It wasn’t my story actually, meaning, it didn’t originate with me. Still, I kept telling and living it. Until one day, after living it for nearly twelve years, I had enough of that story, and I stood up to it. The story—which I bought into…
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Letting go of what is pretty darn good
I know that many people have a fear of letting go. I have something quite the opposite – a fear of holding on too long to what feels pretty darn good. Quick overview, I’ve built a booming coaching and consulting business that has allowed me to buy a beautiful home. I live in an area…
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You can only call me for 3 reasons!
I spent time today with one of my wonderful individual coaching clients. I love all the shared learning that comes from my work as my clients dare to step into vulnerability, reflection, learning and growth. Today’s call was no exception. My sweet, smart and ambitious client is also a go-getter, hard working and deeply…
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Trust Tree
I can’t tell you how often I’m asked, “What did it take to start your own consulting business?” I love that question because it helps me to reflect on what has gotten me here. And by here I mean being able to ride an Icelandic pony on a Monday afternoon. Stand with an intelligent,…
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Adulthood, True Purpose and Sacred Economics
I have been thinking a lot lately about the concepts and power of gratitude, abundance and the intrinsic and extrinsic rewards of sharing abundance. I believe this short film by Charles Eisenstein best explains and explores my desire of how to participate in our world financially. Your thoughts?
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Delving into the Spectrum of Trust
There is reoccurring theme cropping up in my leadership coaching work – trust. Lack of trust, fear of trust, loss of trust…all are words and phrases my clients use consistently. Not a new theme for sure. There are volumes of books and videos and advice and parables developed around the need for trust, how to…