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Category Archives: Personal DevelopmentI don’t know why people seldom end relationships well. Maybe it’s because we all want so much to win — and endings threaten us with losing. Maybe we’re annoyed that we don’t know how to derive any more mutual benefit … Continue reading
Posted in communication skills, Personal Development, Teamwork
Tagged ending relationships
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Wow! A second group of IT leaders from a major retailer in the San Francisco Bay area AGAIN valued the Creating Results-Based Teams workshop they attended. Here’s their internal survey results. Here’s the results from the first group. Share the knowledge … Continue reading The other day I received an interesting e-mail from a mom and IT professional who was inquiring about my ideas for teaching personal responsibility to kids. We felt our exchange could be worth sharing with you: Hi Christopher, I found … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Personal Development, Responsibility
Tagged teaching kids responsibility
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To prevent ourselves from spewing judgements and harm in productive relationships, traditional wisdom admonishes to “not judge.” But not judging is an improbable — if not impossible — action for all but the most emotionally and spiritually developed of us. … Continue reading Who can exhibit leadership? Anyone. Anytime. It’s leadership behavior that’s crucial to teams, not an assigned leader. Leadership is an emergent behavior (i.e., it emerges in a context of need or opportunity, rather than is assigned or part of a … Continue reading
Posted in Leadershift Gift, Leadership, Personal Development, Responsibility
Tagged taking responsibility
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Team Leadership Can Flourish in an Upset — But Only if You Know How to Respond Blast yourself and your team out of the excuse-mentality by treating every UPSET as an opportunity to learn how to improve your team building … Continue reading Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. ~ Chinese Proverb Are you more committed to coping or to growing? It’s a choice you make everyday, even if instinctively rather than intentionally. (Note: this is part … Continue reading
Posted in Personal Development, Responsibility
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Life transitions is the topic of a good personal development post on Edward Collozzi’s blog (despite the readability challenge for me of bold white text on blue background). I commented that I liked how he framed a transition as beginning … Continue reading CONTEXT? What’s context? It’s the set of circumstances that shapes an event, as in, “You’ve got to understand the context.” In meetings, most of us react blindly to context — but people who really know team building craft it! An … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Management Training, Personal Development, work training
Tagged mastering context
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Don’t try to motivate others. That sounds counter-intuitive and goes against what we’ve been taught we should do. Why? It’s far more effective to tap into the motivation that’s already in people. Most of us operate under the assumption that … Continue reading |
