WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR HUMANITY?
At the end of WWII, the United Polish Relief Fund appealed to the Canadian government to deliver penicillin to Poland. In October and November of 1945, the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) managed to deliver five tons of penicillin to Poland, the only humanitarian flights the RCAF would be able to make into the Soviet […]
THE COURAGE OF VULNERABILITY: Inspiring a More Human Organization
The value of vulnerability and its role in inspiring trust, creating psychological safety, and fostering collaboration and engagement on your team has been underscored in recent years. But a naïve understanding of what it means to be vulnerable can impede your growth, limit your impact, and even blow up in your face. When a senior […]
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 […]
