How Will We Activate the Power of Positivity for 2017?

Posted by on Jan 10, 2017 in Blog, Intentions, Values and Core Beliefs | 0 comments How are you feeling about 2017? Are you happy, sad, enthusiastic, fearful, excited, worried, optimistic, pessimistic, uncertain, conflicted? You might be feeling all of these emotions and many more on a moment by moment basis as 2017 gets going. And since we’re all human and subject to our evolutionary programming, we have what’s called a negativity bias. That means we are naturally more...
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Is Your Mindset Working For or Against You?

Posted by on Sep 10, 2016 in Executive Coaching, Values and Core Beliefs | 0 comments Mindsets, beliefs about our intelligence, talents, and personalities, profoundly affect how we live our lives. Is your mindset working for or against you? Some people relish a challenge and tackle it with excitement while others approach the same challenge with dread or avoidance. Some people experience a setback as an opportunity to learn and grow while others see the same setback as a...
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What Leadership Behaviors Do We Need Most for the Future?

Posted by on Jul 6, 2016 in Blog, Executive Leadership, Leadership, Women in Leadership | 0 comments In the McKinsey Report, Women Matter 2, there were nine key leadership behaviors identified that improve organizational performance. Of these behaviors, four were seen as most effective in addressing the global challenges of the future and yet, not sufficiently prevalent in corporations. Of the four most critical behaviors, three are more often demonstrated by women and one is considered...
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Bad Leadership – Why are we so reluctant to talk about it?

Posted by on May 2, 2016 in Blog, Leadership | 0 comments Leadership and being a leader is almost invariably viewed in a positive way. The leadership literature and the industry supporting the training and development of leaders are overwhelmingly focused on the positive aspects of leadership. When searching on Amazon for “good leadership” there were 35,620 results and when searching for “bad leadership” there were 3,931...
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What is Behind the (Far Too Common) Failure of Women to Help Other Women in the Workplace and What Can Be Done About It?

Posted by on Mar 3, 2016 in Blog, Women in Leadership, Women in the Workplace | 0 comments According to Madeline Albright, “there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.” But why wouldn’t women help one another at every opportunity? Shouldn’t it be easy enough for women to help one another whenever possible, particularly in the workplace? It turns out that it isn’t all that simple and women don’t always naturally help one another in the...
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Business Ethics: What is a Leader to do?

Posted by on Jan 8, 2016 in Blog, Leadership | 0 comments Though the corporate mismanagement, corruption, and accounting scandals at big public companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Adelphia, Health South, and Arthur Andersen that resulted in the creation of Sarbanes-Oxley Practices for Good Corporate Governance may seem like bad memories from the past, the crisis of ethics is far from over. Unethical business practices are on the rise according to...
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