MENTAL TOUGHNESS IN AN AGE OF ENTITLEMENT
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” – Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning We all have the ability to choose how we react in our circumstances and given the situations […]
SHAPING THE NEXT CHAPTER OF YOUR LIFE – AUTHENTICALLY
The pandemic has created an opportunity to shine a light on the quality and depth of your life, your leadership, and your relationships. The past several months have been a time of reflection and evaluation to ask questions such as: Where is my career going? Do I really want to spend the rest of my […]
REOPENING • REENGAGING • REFOCUSING How To Make The Comeback Better Than The Setback
As we emerge from COVID-19 restrictions, new challenges lie ahead. I have been asked by many clients to help them navigate the transition into a new reality. Regardless of whether you have been on the frontlines in an essential service or working remotely, the next few months are critical for planning your personal transition into […]
LOOKING INTO THE SHADOWS: How Turning On The Light Can Nurture Psychological Safety
“This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine. There is nothing more confining than the prison we don’t know we are in.” – William Shakespeare An executive I am coaching recently shared his 360 data where his direct reports expressed that they didn’t feel safe around him; that his unpredictable volatility and insensitivity created an environment that […]
How To Deal With a Psychologically Unsafe Workplace – The Authentic Way
For those who were able to attend our webinar on Psychological Safety we want to thank you for attending and for the overwhelmingly positive responses. If you missed it, here is the link: https://youtu.be/80oVGPcXimc Please pass along this link to anyone you believe would find value from it. Our hope is that it will generate some […]
Staying Connected: Making The Beast Beautiful
Learn the alchemy True human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you’ve been given, the door will open. -Rumi Some people break during difficult times, while others break open and lead us into a better world. As this pandemic wears on, it is time to examine how to allow the pain of it to break […]
HOW TO BUILD COMMUNITY IN A TIME OF ISOLATION
A research project from the 1980s, documented in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that male heart attack survivors who were socially isolated had more than four times the risk of death than men with strong social connections. And a study of more than four thousand men of Japanese ancestry living in Hawaii found that […]
How To Find Security In A World Filled With Uncertainty
“Circumstances do not determine a person; they reveal a person” Reality has always been filled with uncertainty, but I’ve never had more uncertainty in my life than now. Here are just a few of the questions that have been on my mind recently: • Will we ever get back to relating comfortably with each other […]
MOVING FORWARD TOGETHER What Prisoners of War Can Teach Us About Getting Through The Pandemic
“Freedom has a taste to it to those who fight and almost die that the protected will never know.” – Written on a prison wall by a captive in Vietnam I heard once that the purpose of a crisis is not to break us as much as it is to break us open. As Remembrance […]
HOW TO RECOVER THE HUMAN ELEMENT
The students of a Hasidic rabbi approached their spiritual leader with a complaint about the prevalence of evil in the world. Intent upon driving out the forces of darkness, they requested the rabbi to counsel them. The rabbi suggested they take brooms and attempt to sweep the darkness from a cellar. The bewildered disciples applied […]
