By Holly Adams
Posted Winter Book Stack
Lots of reading lately. 📚 These are fantastic! What do you recommend for 2021?
By Holly Adams
In Accountability, Challenges, Communication, Employee Development, Leadership, Mindset, Strategic Grit, Success
Posted Strategic Grit: Turning Chaos into Insight
Did your expectations for 2020 crash and burn? Don’t throw the smoking heap of unrealized goals and planning out! There are treasures buried there, including lots of learning and new insights. [...]
Are you ready to not just plan but DO?
Strategic Grit with Jennifer and Holly Are you ready to not just plan but DO? In our introductory blog post we promised a springboard for clarifying the future you want to create and bringing it [...]
By Holly Adams
In Accountability, Communication, Employee Development, Feedback, Leadership, Perspective, Self-Awareness, Wednesday Wisdom
Posted Uploading Responsibility
3 Ways to Prevent Uploading Responsibility You’ve probably heard the saying “Don’t bring me a problem without a solution.” And managers I know tell me that employees who are too quick to escalate [...]
By Holly Adams
In Accountability, Communication, Employee Development, Leadership, Self-Awareness, Wednesday Wisdom
Posted Self Awareness Resources
Self-Awareness A pivotal moment in my self-awareness journey came several years ago during a heated discussion with a coworker. At the time, I was a Human Resources Manager attempting to point [...]
By Holly Adams
In Challenges, Communication, Employee Development, Leadership, Mental Toughness, Mindset, Perspective, Purpose, Self-Awareness, Success, Wednesday Wisdom
Posted Summer Reading
Here are a couple of books I’ve read recently. Feel free to add them to your summer reading list. If you pick one of them up, please let me know what you think (social media links below)! If we [...]
By Holly Adams
In Accountability, Challenges, Empathy, Employee Development, Leadership, Role Recognition, Wednesday Wisdom
Posted Take Action or Take Notes
Today I’m sharing a nugget of insight from a recent client conversation. As we talked about this client’s organization’s response to COVID-19, he expressed pride and gratitude in the way the [...]
By Holly Adams
In Accountability, Challenges, Communication, Employee Development, Feedback, Humility, Leadership, Mental Toughness, Mindset, Self-Awareness, Wednesday Wisdom
Posted Living with Dichotomy
We might all be in the same ocean, but we’re all in different boats. This analogy sums up the range of responses I’ve witnessed to the COVID-19 pandemic. While some people are hording toilet [...]
By Holly Adams
In Communication, Employee Development, Mental Toughness, Mindset, Purpose, Self-Awareness, Wednesday Wisdom
Posted Spring Break Reading
If you have the opportunity to pick up a book in the next couple of weeks, here are a couple you might consider. Mindset By Carol Dweck, PhD. The Untethered Soul By Michael A. [...]
By Holly Adams
In Accountability, Challenges, Employee Development, Leadership, Mental Toughness, Mindset, Self-Awareness, Success, Wednesday Wisdom
Posted Losing and Mental Toughness
“I want to see him lose.” I was with a group of friends who had gathered to watch a sporting event on TV and those harsh words got my attention even though they weren’t directed at anyone in the [...]