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You’ve got to be kidding me!
We just crossed over the 5 minute mark of his story, and this is all I was thinking.
Another department manager asked me for some help. He was having some trouble with two employees, who weren’t getting along, and he desperately needed me to hear out his...
“The office feels empty”, Rachel thought to herself. “Oh well, maybe a lot of folks are just out.”
In fact the whole week felt empty with fewer interruptions than normal. That’s not too bad, she got a lot done and was feeling good going into the weekend.
As the day...
Adam burst into 90 seconds of non-stop profanity. All to tell Sam he had enough and he couldn’t take it anymore.
Once Adam got everything off his chest and calmed down. Sam got more background. Adam felt disrespected, wasn’t getting cooperation, and was beginning to question how he...
Have you ever closed your eyes in a meeting?
Like in a 1-on-1, was the other person talking, and you just shut your eyes? Them thinking you might be nodding off or bored with what they’re saying? I bet that was uncomfortable for them.
Some people, like myself, close their eyes to get a...
She was frozen. Standing in front of a room full of her peers and upper management, she didn’t know what to say. How could this happen?
This is her project, she’s the lead, she knows everything about what’s going on. But now, she’s reading her slides and flipping through...
Mindfulness is not meditation.
I believe a lot of people think mindfulness is meditation so they don’t have to do it. They think to themselves that it’s to mystical or woo-woo, they don’t associate themselves with those things, so now they don’t have to practice...
To help remember the four categories of cognitive readiness, we use ACES. This is not only a good way to remember but a good way to understand as one category feeds into the next particularly well, in this order. The S and fourth category is Social Intelligence.
Have you ever seen people who...
To help remember the four categories of cognitive readiness, we use ACES. This is not only a good way to remember but a good way to understand as one category feeds into the next particularly well, in this order. The E and third category is Emotional Intelligence.
Emotional intelligence, EQ,...
To help remember the four categories of cognitive readiness, we use ACES. This is not only a good way to remember but a good way to understand as one category feeds into the next particularly well, in this order. The C and second category is Cognitive Intelligence.
Cognitive intelligence is an...
To help remember the four categories of cognitive readiness, we use ACES. This is not only a good way to remember but a good way to understand as one category feeds into the next particularly well, in this order. The A and first category is Attentional Focus.
Attentional focus is the focus of an...
The best way for a leader or manager to improve their skills for the 21st century culture is cognitive readiness.
How do you ensure your leadership skills keep up to date and improve as your career, business, industry, and world changes? How do you make the best possible decisions when dealing...
Has your significant other ever complained? I’ll wait. You may have to really think about that. Is it so infrequent that you forgot the last time they did or you didn’t even notice?
Enough sarcasm, it happens all the time, right?
How does it usually go? After you two talked and...
