“Whether at work or in personal relationships, genuine transparency goes hand in hand with the very real risk of rejection, nonetheless it is worth that risk”. The end of May marks the end of this phase of this weekly writing project and looking back over the past 18 weeks, I feel like soundly pushed ...
What used to be referred to as work-life balance has now merged into a technology enabled “worklife”. Staying connected simultaneously provides freedom to work without location as a limitation and an expectation of nearly always being available to your organization. Even for those of us who truly enjoy the work we do and don’t ...
“We know our actions speak louder than words, but what are we actually saying when we think we are being silent”? When I taught my first undergraduate leadership course as a graduate student nearly two decades ago, one of the first topics we covered was Johari’s Window (Luft & Ingham, 1955). This simple quadrant ...
“It’s not always my job, but it is always my responsibility”. Often one of the first things we say when we meet someone new is to ask (or be asked) “so what do you do”? While we know as a cultural reflex, this mean what do you do for a living or what is ...
“There is no microwave version of self-change. You have to commit to it and persist in it”. Feelings and attitudes are not the same thing. To greater or lesser degrees we are all governed by our feelings. While we sometime think of feelings as something we cannot control, we can all think of examples ...
“Like an optometrist exam, getting your clearest vision often involves trying on a series of different lenses. Discarding some, keeping and making slight adjustments to others to bring matters into focus”. False dichotomies are named as such because in truth, there is always a continuum in which individual preferences, tendencies and work styles fall. Though ...
“Growth requires you to look in the mirror until you see something that makes you uncomfortable. You can either change or purposefully choose to stay the same”. If your organization is anything like mine, your role involves participating in a fair number of meetings and other interactions which evoke a range of emotions from excitement ...