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?
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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Top 3 Posts on Finding Your Motivation for the New Year
Happy New Year everyone! If you haven’t already, you’re probably thinking about what your New Year’s resolutions should be, how you’re going to make them happen, or if you should have any at all. Many people advise that you need to get specific about what you want to achieve otherwise it won’t happen. Well, my...
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I have been spending a lot of time lately with an impressive team of strategic thinkers working on how to make the most of 2015 (more on this soon!). The sheer number of great ideas and collaborations we have come up with got me thinking about how important it is to Lead Positive in our...
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As we begin to close out the year, I’m taking the time to scan, snap, savor all that my team and I have been able to accomplish over the past year: publishing Lead Positive: What Highly Effective Leaders See, Say, and Do, launching my new website and blog, and most recently, working with an amazing...
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The Leader as Hero: 5 Essential Daily Acts
I often talk to leaders about putting themselves in the role of “Hero” as they tell their stories. Using the Hero’s Journey as a framework for explaining your vision and how you and your team will get there is a powerful tool to get people on board and start feeling the excitement of taking on...
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“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...
ReadGoing 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...
ReadYour Lead Positive Hero’s Journey (Part 2 of 2)
(Editor’s Note: For part 1 of this blog post, please go here) Your Hero’s Journey is the leadership story of what lies ahead in the pursuit of your goals. It is the story of the future you seek come true—your leadership vision realized. Last week, I discussed the first three phases of the Hero’s Journey: The Call,...
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