Leadership

I recently found myself on the other side of coaching and want to share the experience with you. Yes, it involves a dragon boat: a long boat with 18 oarsmen. I agreed to be a dragon boat oarsman [...]

“We’ll, there’s another one out there now,” my friend quipped. We were meeting for coffee and, as so many of us do, she was killing time while our orders came up by scrolling through her emails [...]

Being accessible is important when you’re a manager with a team to lead. But what happens when your team takes advantage of that accessibility and interruptions threaten to sabotage your own [...]

You won’t find me in front of a TV very often, and when you do, one of the last things I’m probably watching is a reality TV series. But (surprise!) a couple of weeks ago I actually watched some [...]

Here are a couple of quick reads that provide a good value for a short time investment. Almost Everything, by Anne Lamott The inside flap of this book promises an exploration of ‘life’s essential [...]

Of all the potentially fabulous ways to spend a day in Las Vegas, most people wouldn’t pick sitting in a hotel conference room with a dozen strangers. But that’s exactly what I did last week when [...]

Today’s WW is more of an announcement than a dose of wisdom, but wisdom is exactly what I hope to gain during my upcoming training with Dr. Jason Selk, whose work on developing mental toughness [...]

An email with the subject line of “crickets” snagged my attention recently. The email was from a friend and it was about the way a company treated her after a series of job interviews. More than [...]

I’ve been hearing a lot of bad job-departure stories recently and this has me thinking about how organizations handle employee off-boarding. There’s a lot of emphasis on hiring employees. HR [...]

I was intrigued as I listened to a recent podcast that referenced part of the Marine Corps Drill Instructor creed.   These recruits are entrusted to my care. I will train them to the best of my [...]