ABT Tools & Tips

Shift Your Leadership With Our New 3-Day Workshops

What a time we live in! Some days, the leadership opportunities feel so exciting that you can’t wait to get out of bed and seize them. Other days, it feels more like this:     In today’s volatile business environment, you as a leader are being confronted with a storm of unceasing challenges: radical change, competitive...

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Shifting From Threat To Challenge

Way back in February 2016, Kathy wrote a blog post called, “Is Workplace Trauma The Key To Success?” about how we can turn tragedy into doable challenges that move us forward. She wrote: Your greatest power in the face of adversity is your power to choose how you will react—that’s where Asset-Based Thinking comes in....

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Is Workplace Trauma the Key to Success?

February 25, 2016 - ABT Tools & Tips, Read Blog Posts

What if you got fired? What if you messed up a presentation that was the stepping stone to your next promotion? What if your boss threw you under the bus for a mistake that wasn’t yours? Very few of us go through life without some kind of interruption in our careers. And while deep breathing...

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Expand Your Capacity for Wisdom

October 23, 2014 - Lead Positive, ABT Tools & Tips

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” ~ Henry David Thoreau In Thrive, Arianna Huffington writes that wisdom is a deeper awareness and connectivity that “frees us from the narrow reality we feel trapped in.” In one of Psychology Today’s most popular blog posts, Adam Grant, author of Give and Take: A Revolutionary...

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Going From Setback to Bounce Back

Failing fast. Sounds good in theory but in practice it can feel very wrong—and be very painful. For most of our lives we’ve been told that failure is not an option. So despite the obvious benefits of experimentation, bouncing back from failure—much less bouncing back “fast”—remains a lofty ideal. And the challenges of failing fast...

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