Connect • Collaborate • Create Solutions
(This is a continuing blog series from my attendance at the Boundless Compassion Retreat and Facilitator Training in late June 2018. Some of the contents are adapted from Boundless Compassion – Creating a Way of Life by Joyce Rupp, 2018, with permission from Joyce Rupp, author).
There are four seeds of compassion: [Read more…]
This is my second blog about my compassion journey that begins later this month at a week-long learning retreat called Boundless Compassion.
This is a journey to deepen my understanding of compassion, of collaborating with others to bring compassion to our community (business, education, faith communities and neighbors), and bringing consciousness to my business clients of how compassion directly impacts their culture, staff productivity, and sustainability. [Read more…]
One of the challenges in cultivating emotional intelligence is developing the skill of self-reflection. Self-reflection is defined as “the exercising of introspection, and a willingness to learn about yourself” in order to achieve self-awareness. This is the first competency of emotional intelligence. It is from our self-reflection that we become self-aware. [Read more…]
Recent surveys show that men, in particular those in management, are uncomfortable mentoring women or even working alone with a woman. The most recent survey is from LeanIn.Org and SurveyMonkey who partnered with #MentorHer
I’ve facilitated sexual harassment training workshops for over 25 years, to thousands of people in hundreds of businesses and organizations. I’ve realized it is time to ask provocative questions in a facilitated dialogue between women and men to talk about what needs to be said about sexual harassment. [Read more…]
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“The three largest forces on the planet – technology, globalization, and climate change – are all accelerating at once,” and this acceleration feels “like driving a car that went from zero to sixty miles per hour in five seconds.”
Freidman says that as a result we no longer know how to be patient, to pause, to be late, or to reflect. We’ve “made waiting technologically obsolete.”
There’s a lot of talk today that no one listens anymore. If we all keep talking, how can anyone listen deeply? Maybe that’s the problem.
Whether we are interacting with leaders, co-workers, customers, or those in our personal relationships, connecting with people demands that we listen, but listen for what? [Read more…]
I recently had a leadership team complete Patrick Lencioni’s “5 Dysfunctions of a Team” assessment. As part of the exercise, the team identified several strategies for team improvement. [Read more…]
“In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I’m going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here’s a chance to grow.” (Carol S. Dweck, Professor of Psychology at Stanford University)
Ambiguity, uncertainty, the unknown, and change can create emotional stress and cloud a leader’s vision.
Another New Year ushers into our lives. If there is one hope I have for myself and others, it is to be present with ambiguity and uncertainty that will continue unabated. The search for certainty is folly. Once you have it, or think you have it, it’s gone. [Read more…]
