I am so stinkin’ proud of the team members of one of my clients. I’ll tell you why but let me first explain a few things. To be humble is to possess the virtue of humility. Since that isn’t extremely helpful in defining humble, let’s look at humility. To have humility is to be simple
If you break a bone, people can see you have an injury. They may ask when you will be better, and perhaps even get into specifics of what it will take to heal. They aren’t usually too shy about asking what happened. It is not uncommon for them to offer up their own broken bone
Seven times in the last three weeks. That is not a good thing. Seven different people commented to me about their direct supervisor being a poor leader. Seven different people. Seven different supervisors. Seven different places of employment. Seven different industries. In each instance, I asked questions and engaged in discussion. No one told me
It started with a simple question, “Do you think we could get a bottle of wine for the table?” and ended with one woman storming away while the other women looked after her, confused by what just offended the woman in the black blazer. The rest of the people sitting at the table sat in
Kate Spade. Anthony Bourdain. More than 120 others every day according to leading statistics on suicide. Some of which happen close to wherever you call home. It is so sad. It breaks my heart because that means there are people living in a place of deep hurt every single day. I’ve shared my story before.
Find people who are doing what you want to do and ask questions. Learn from them. Ask for advice. Soak it up. Learn from their mistakes. Learn from their successes. Do what they did to get where they got. That is advice I've been offered again and again. And I listen. I make those contacts
A position does not automatically make you a leader. Having the title, "CEO" or "Boss" or "President" does not necessarily mean you are a leader. There are certain things that I believe people must do in order to be considered a true leader. If you... are ok with status quo, you are not a leader.
A close family member graduated at the end of 2017 from Drug Court. Drug Court is a program that treats the addiction instead of incarcerating it. The Drug Court program isn’t for every situation. Thankfully, it was right for our family and we will be forever grateful as it played a significant role in saving
Fitness challenges seem to be popping up all around us. I thought I’d adopt the fitness challenge idea to issue a kindness challenge. Below is a step by step action list for you to follow that won’t take a lot of time, will cost you very little (nothing if you are creative), and should
With the struggle for businesses to find talent these days, it boggles my mind that not all businesses are taking more time to invest in their employees and show them that THEY MATTER. Here are three SIMPLE things you can do to treat your employees better this week than you did last week. 1) Ask