by Robyn McLeod | Sep 26, 2019 | Team Development
Recently a client (we’ll call her Sue) shared her frustration following a conversation she had with a colleague. The discussion seemed pretty benign to me, so I asked Sue why she had such strong feelings about it. She then gave me the back story of an earlier...
by Lisa Kohn | Sep 19, 2019 | Team Development
We unfortunately set people up to fail all the time. We may have the best intentions, and we may think we’re setting our reports up to succeed, but we may be making things more difficult for them. We may not be giving them the resources and support they need, or we...
by Chatsworth Consulting Group | Oct 9, 2018 | Thoughtful Leadership
“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” ~George Bernard Shaw Years ago I was at an internal meeting at Verizon. A leader stood up and said one of the best things I’ve ever heard. “We make every...
by Chatsworth Consulting Group | Aug 7, 2018 | Personal growth
“It’s not whether you get knocked down. It’s whether you get up.” ~Vince Lombardi My client was discouraged. Honestly, when she told me what had happened, I was discouraged too. We’d worked together diligently to come up with a plan of...
by Chatsworth Consulting Group | Jun 12, 2018 | Thoughtful Leadership
“A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.” ~Anonymous We coach and teach clients to offer more praise, to provide more positive feedback, and to catch people doing things right. All of these are important and...
