Hone Your Debriefing Skills
Debriefing is a structured process used to continuously improve planning toward a common objective. It originated in the military in order to quickly make effective changes. Strong leaders have a systemic way to reflect with their teams upon what happened, what should be changed or stay the same, and the reasons why…
Life Lessons From Mom
This blog is a bit different. I’d like to share some of the life lessons that my mother taught me during our time together on this spinning marble in space. These lessons apply to all of us and have helped me very much throughout life. I hope they help you as well…
Accept to Achieve
Imagine standing on a mountain peak and announcing “I will only be happy when half of these mountains are removed.” Sounds silly, but it isn’t so far removed from how our minds react to everyday workplace tensions. Somewhere along the path, we learned to hold our breath and suspend contentment so long as complex challenges aren’t resolved…
Communicate Assertively
Assertive communication is critical to leaders who want to flourish at work. Unfortunately, many leaders mistake assertiveness for aggressiveness…
Seek Discomfort to Grow
I've been reflecting recently upon the relationship between behavior change and comfort. It starts with auto-pilot, meaning we think and act automatically most of the time…
The Stretched Thin Myth
It feels as if you have more and more to do, and no time to do it all, right?…
Snap the Loop: Lessons from HBO’s Westworld
“Humans fancy that there's something special about the way we perceive the world, and yet we live in loops as tight and as closed as the hosts do, seldom questioning our choices, content, for the most part, to be told what to do next.” – Dr. Robert Ford (Westworld, HBO 2016)…
Four Focused Practices to Use When Spread Thin
“I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
It's very common for leaders to feel overloaded with personal and professional responsibilities…
Manage Both Content & Process
The content of a conversation includes what is being discussed, the reason for the conversation and the "facts". Most people focus on content more than process…
Leverage Your Five Senses
Our brains take in information in two distinct ways. One way is through abstract thinking, which includes words, images, and numbers. The other is perception, which occurs through sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch…
Faces of Autopilot
Autopilot is a term that describes when we think and behave in unaware ways that are not of our choosing…