by Chatsworth Consulting Group | Jul 23, 2024 | Thoughtful Leadership
“The willingness to show up changes us. It makes us a little braver each time.” ~Brené Brown Sometimes leading is scary. Sometimes life is scary. Sometimes something comes our way, and we don’t know how to handle it. We don’t know how to have...
by Lisa Kohn | Apr 11, 2024 | Awareness
There was a time when “stupid” was the “s-word” for my children. They felt it was offensive, and squealed when we used it. And perhaps they were right. “Stupid” is one of those loaded words – if you’re directing it at a...
by Chatsworth Consulting Group | Oct 17, 2023 | Communication
“Genuine listening means suspending memory, desire and judgment – and, for a moment at least, existing for the other person.” ~Michael P. Nichols The other day I was ‘listening’ to my colleague. We were in the midst of a heated discussion, and it was her...
by Robyn McLeod | Aug 17, 2023 | Thoughtful Leadership
“I need people to be more accountable.” It’s a statement I hear often from leaders as they express frustration with poor performance, mediocre results, silos within their organization, and other ills. If only people would be “more...
by Robyn McLeod | Apr 27, 2023 | Communication
“I tell my team all the time how great they are,” one leader recently told me. Yet, I knew from conversations with her team members that they felt their leader did not see them as competent and did not trust them with high-level work. While she said how...
