The Pause that Refreshes
Progress towards your vision, values, purpose and goals by stepping back to step ahead. Savor and celebrate your success.
Read article »Progress towards your vision, values, purpose and goals by stepping back to step ahead. Savor and celebrate your success.
Read article »Our leadership development choices raise us up or drag us down. Our development is our choice. Those accumulated choices prepare us to take advantage of unexpected opportunities or weaken our abilities and set us up to be victims of change.
Read article »Key characteristic of learning leaders; they refuse to be trapped by "conventional wisdom" or what others say is or isn't possible. Highly effective leaders go against the odds – or just ignore them.
Read article »Resistance to today's change comes from failing to make yesterday's preparations and improvements. We need to deal with change by improving ourselves. Then our time of success must come.
Read article »Not all experience is equal. Experience isn't what happens to us, it's what we do with what happens to us. There's a major difference between growth experiences and stagnating experiences. Just because we've shown up year after year and put in the time, doesn't mean we've gained by the experience.
Read article »Remember to take the time to Review, Assess, Celebrate, and Refocus. Discover the Personal approaches that can help you to avoid the pitfalls and pave your pathway to success.
Read article »A great fictional story, illustrating a major problem we encounter again and again in our work with individuals, teams, and organizations trying to move to higher levels of performance. It's the problem of balancing the speed and pace of daily life or operations, with periodically stepping back to make sure we're heading in the right direction.
Read article »Whether on the high seas or in a corporate boardroom, maps, charts, or plans are very useful in plotting a course to where we want to go. But they are useless if we don't know where we are now.
Read article »Daily, or even just weekly, small stretches accumulate into powerful new habits and ever-stronger discipline muscles. Discover the Personal Improvement Planning approaches that can help you to avoid the pitfalls and pave your pathway to success.
Read article »Daily, or even just weekly, small stretches accumulate into powerful new habits and ever-stronger discipline muscles. Discover the Personal Improvement Planning approaches that can help you to avoid the pitfalls and pave your pathway to success.
Read article »There is no one best or right way to keep ourselves growing and developing. But, without a vision and the discipline to follow through, there can be no personal improvement.
Read article »Only through knowing where we are can we change where we are going. Discover the Personal Feedback approaches that can help you to avoid the pitfalls and pave your pathway to success.
Read article »For professionals “on the grow” middle age can be a time of career renewal. Others can find their careers stagnating. Here are a few symptoms of stunted growth and how they can be rectified.
Read article »The journey of personal growth requires finding our own way by implementing a series of interconnected areas of growth and development.
Read article »Not all learners are leaders. But the research clearly shows that the strongest leaders are continuous learners. They are self-made leaders.
Read article »Effective leaders are made, not born. If we are not working hard to continually improve our leadership skills because we weren't "born with natural talent" then we are either copping out, misinformed, or both.
Read article »Many managers in leadership roles have stunted personal growth. We can focus on the gain of improvement, by keeping our preferred future and purpose firmly in front of us, and develop the "habit" of personal improvement.
Read article »Grow with change by focusing on a vision, choosing your outlook, seeking authenticity, committing yourself with discipline and continue to grow and develop.
Read article »Six critical areas of personal development for inner self-leadership to move outward to influence, guide, support, and lead others.
Read article »Change happens. We can't control much of the world changing around us. But we can control how we respond. We can choose to anticipate and embrace changes or resist them. The choice is ours.
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