The health and productivity of teams, whether professional, personal, or community-based, is commensurate with the health and productivity of the individuals who make up those teams. When team members are physically and emotionally healthy, it absolutely has a direct effect on the speed and quality with which products and services are delivered to their consumers, the ability to effectively communicate …
One Degree of Separation
Last week, I wrote about an agreement from a women’s conference that I really loved and this week, I have one more for you: The answer is in the room. At Sara’s conference, we agreed up front that the answers we were seeking were “in the room” already. I found this such a comforting thought. It reminded me of the …
I am ONE with that!
I recently attended a 3-day conference in Chicago called “Women Starting Movements” which is an annual conference put on by my business coach, Sara Connell. I always come home with a journal and a brain full of ideas, new methods, and commitments to implement into my business plan. Maybe equally beneficial, I also come home with a heart that’s filled …
Failure Avoidance Vs. Error Recovery
I often hear from employers and managers that finding critical-thinkers, problem-solvers, or self-starters is hard to do in this day and age. And yet, it’s interesting that the very traits that makes them so are generally frowned upon in business and in society in general—taking risks; exploring new possibilities; learning and adjusting from the inevitable mistakes. Many of the world’s …
Being a Champion
A recent post on Facebook said, “What if you awoke tomorrow morning with only the things you’d expressed gratitude for or had championed today?” It gave me a moment of pause as contemplated what exactly had I expressed gratitude or appreciation for that day… there’s so much I would never want to live without and would certainly miss in my …
Infinite Promise
If anything stays in one place too long in my house … it becomes almost invisible to me. For example, I often post meaningful quotes or passages on the front of my refrigerator, but after a while, if I don’t change them, I don’t even “see” them anymore. Early one morning last week while searching for a coffee scoop in …
Life’s GPS
When you need directions to some place you want to go, what’s the first thing you punch into your GPS? Your destination, right? Your GPS already knows where you are currently and quickly calculates the quickest route to your desired location. And what does it give you next? The next turn…. Not all your turns… just the very next one …
We Can Give It… But Can We Take It?
Why is feedback so easy to give but so hard to receive? In my experience most of us have negative emotions associated with feedback. Receiving feedback, even from people we trust and with whom we have good relationships, can cause us to have a defensive, emotional response. Sometimes that response is voiced and sometimes we internalize it. Either way, we …
The Worst and the Best is Yet to Come
Someone said to me recently, “Just when we survive the pandemic, then we’re hit with skyrocketing inflation and a likely recession… when will all this ever end? When will things finally get back to normal?!” I just smiled because my experience has shown me that “normal” is anything but black and white. Neither is it a straight line but rather …
Quietly Quitting or Boldly Creating?
If you’ve been on social media lately or read recent news headlines, you’ve likely heard about the tidal wave of employees “quietly quitting” their jobs. A recent Gallup poll of a random sample of 15,000 full- and part-time U.S. employees (aged 18 and over) in June of 2022 found that at least 50% of the U.S. workforce are quietly quitting—meaning …
