Are YOU a High Trust Leader?

I have been truly lucky to have had many remarkable bosses and leaders. People who embodied trust and extended it to all. These leaders…

• Saw things in me that I didn’t see in myself.
• Believed in my...

I had presented this topic so many times. 

I had seen people’s faces light up, and I had experienced many, “ah-ha” moments with audiences and this topic in the past. 

I knew this lesson could be amazingly impactful and...

Does anyone enjoy feeling anxious? How can it be good?

Anxiety for its own sake may not feel wonderful - but it the emotion is powerful. The power of anxiety can be "harnessed" and used to your advantage.

I often feel a twinge...

Ever feel like you’ve tried every strategy, every approach, every angle, every tactic, over and over, and yet, you still cannot get that underperforming employee to meet expectations?

Managing performance is a fundamental part of any...

In my Coaching for Excellence class, we start with an "enlightening" activity.
 
Participants are asked to recall a person who acted as a coach to them, sometime during their lifetime. It could be a workplace coach, a teacher, mentor, or sports...

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600 seconds. That’s all the time you have to grab your audience’s attention - and then keep it....

When I was a kid in grade school, teachers stood in the front of the classroom and tried to fill our heads with volumes of the important facts, figures, and concepts that we would need to be successful in the world. Mathematical formulas, grammar...