Empathy Basics for Leaders:
Why it Matters, What it is, and What to Say Can you believe it? 92% of employees say they are more likely to stay with an empathetic employer. That’s not ten or twenty percent. It’s not fifty or seventy-five. It’s…
10 Tips to Boost Morale
01 | Focus On The Good Stuff …of what your people do, what they say, intend, contribute, sacrifice, risk,and hope to achieve. Instead of asking, “What’s going on here?” or “What’s wrong here?”, ask “What’s wonderful? What’s working?” 02 |…
Advocating With Non-Violent Communication
Happiness and harmony are established in proportion to how well we get our needs met. When we get what we need, and especially when we get what we want, we feel at peace, satisfied, joyful. So, how do we get…
Resolving Conflict With Ease
The gift of non-violent communication. Many times we come up against conflict or discord with another because of our differences—differences in culture, age, background, resources, knowledge base, preferences, or attitude (to site just a few). However, if we bolster our…
Unveiling Your Essential Beauty
The Essence of Every Woman’s Happiness. Whether you approximate the cultural ideal of beauty or not, are you like most women who suffer because they believe they’re not beautiful enough? Women young and old, slim and fat, yearn to behold the…
Our Greatest Power
The Power to Choose The greatest power of human beings is not their ability to think, speak, to plan or to build. No. It is their capacity to choose. The power of choice is the greatest power we possess. Our…
Transforming Difficult Emotions Into Powerful Resources
Have you ever felt like throwing your computer out the window? Ever wanted to punch your boss in the nose? How about scream so loud, you’d make the whole office shake? If so, I’d say you are alive and well!…
Five Steps to Flourishing Friendships
Friends are the greatest gift in life! They bring love, comfort, joy and celebration. When it comes to attending a yearly conference, meeting, reunion or camp, one has a unique opportunity to create friendships that last a lifetime and bring…
TO FULLY EMBRACE DIVERSITY CELEBRATE YOUR UNIQUENESS!
Permission Giving ourselves permission to be all that we can be is another giant step towards creating a culture that values diversity. But first, a reminder - I’ve noted several times that self-actualization is the at the pinnacle of Maslow's…
CREATING COMMON GROUND
Have you ever listened to a new friend telling you snippets of his or her life story, and after sharing portions of yours, maybe after every third sentence or so, one or both of you exclaim, "Oh wow! That happened…
