May 7, 2019 | Breaking Through, Building Community, Creative Leadership, Developing Teams, home, Managing Change, Strengthening Facilitation
You’ve brought together the right organizations and people at the right time, to talk about critical issues and solve complex challenges, but do you have the necessary work styles to ensure the goals you create get accomplished? During my facilitation and strategic...
Mar 7, 2019 | Breaking Through, Creative Leadership, Essentialism, home, Managing Change, Resources
Are you mindful of how you spend large chunks of your time? Are you choosing how to spend your free time or is your time victim to routines, habits, or societal norms? Are you aware of habits that might be time sinks throughout your day? Are there things you do,...
Aug 15, 2018 | Breaking Through, Building Community, Creative Leadership, Essentialism, Flip Phone Hack, home, Seeking Balance and Wellness in Leadership
In last month’s post, I offered a case for spending less time looking down at our phones and more time looking up and around at the world. This week, I want to offer some observation techniques or routines to practice looking up. And if you need to set an alert...
Apr 22, 2018 | Creative Leadership, Cultivating Creativity, Developing Teams, Essentialism, home, Managing Change, Seeking Balance and Wellness in Leadership, Thoughts for New Professionals
The Two Best Things You Can Do For Your Team I have a friend that is a flight-for-life helicopter pilot, a profession that you simply have to admire. When he visited some time ago he was intrigued by my work, both the content of my consulting and the concept of...
Mar 22, 2018 | Breaking Through, Creative Leadership, Cultivating Creativity, Developing Innovative Awareness, home, Strengthening Facilitation, Thoughts for New Professionals
Last week someone stopped me in the midst of a training and asked me to clarify what I meant by “deep listening.” The question should not have startled me as much as it did, since deep listening is a concept I refer to often. I’m glad that it did startle me, and I’m...
Mar 5, 2016 | Artist's Wheel, Breaking Through, Cultivating Creativity, home, Seeking Balance and Wellness in Leadership
Your BREAK THROUGH, Vol. 1, Post 17 Creative inspiration is all too often depicted as that light-bulb idea, striking us without warning or preparation, limiting the spark to the “chosen” artist. Instead of waiting for this divine moment though, I believe...
