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Your personal mid-year review: looking back, looking forward, and why it’s important – especially in 2020
We’re halfway through the “vision” year, 2020. What a year it has been so far! While it may be hard not to focus on all of the upheaval, uncertainty, loss, and pain that has defined the last several months, many of us have also had shining moments, opportunities to...
You need your head and your heart to lead
"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart." ~Eleanor Roosevelt Obviously a much-heralded leadership competency is Emotional Intelligence. Especially now. With everything so uncertain and so many of us so triggered, I need to be even more...
Why pausing is such an important leadership skill, and how to do it
As an Executive Coach, I get to work with many powerful, successful leaders, and many of them have a habit that's getting in their way. They're reacting too quickly, and not reacting Thoughtfully. Their colleagues will say: "I ask him a question, and his immediate...
The hardest work of leadership
"Contrary to the opinion of many, leaders are not born. Leaders are made, and they are made by effort and hard work." ~Vince Lombardi "She's a born leader," people say. According to Vince Lombardi, leaders are not born; they are made. I have to agree. I have to agree...
Ways to build compassion into your culture and lead your team, now when it’s getting even tougher
I recently said to Robyn that we should make Audre Lorde our patron saint. I have yet to find a quote from her that I don’t love. And need. The quote that is resonating most these days, that I wrote about last week on my personal blog, is “Caring for myself is not...
How can you make your life and your leadership even more “worthwhile”?
While we wrote this this post when life was only about quarantine, it is, we believe, even more pertinent now. Now is a time to live our lives for the betterment of this world – and to take care of ourselves (and others) while we do. Nourish your body. Your mind. Your...
Leap out of your comfort zone
This earlier post from our blog in some ways seems off topic right now, but in some ways it also seems right on. Now is a time to leap – and charge – out of our comfort zones. To take action to bring forth the reality we want. Talking and dreaming only will not get us...
Thoughtful leadership starts with understanding
We appreciate the positive and supportive outreach from our Black Lives Matter post. Many of you want to take action. Many of you want to see change happen. Many of you want to listen and understand more. This earlier post from our blog about the need for more...
Black Lives Matter
From Robyn: As a mother of two black men and grandmother of two black boys, the events of the last week and a half have been heart wrenching, painful and terrifying. From Lisa: As a person who is not of color, I am heartbroken at the systemic racism in our country and...
How you can see things differently and move forward with clarity
“Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see life with a clearer view again.” ~Alex Tan It is an intense time, and, as we keep reminding clients (and writing in our blog), emotions are more likely at the surface and spilling out...
Mindfulness: The right way to do it
I know we just wrote about mindfulness, and perhaps we should be mindful about how much we're sharing about mindfulness…but in our defense: It really can make a difference (see this article). It really can be quite simple and also quite difficult to practice, all at...
Are you burning your life brightly?
"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." ~George Bernard Shaw It is too easy to take our day - and life - for...
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