Posts by Bonnie Artman Fox
Deliberate Practice: The Key To Building Your Expertise
As a child my mother wanted me to take piano lessons. I wasn’t crazy about the idea but I didn’t have a choice, both my sister and I were expected to take lessons. As with learning any new skill, taking the lesson is one thing, practicing so the lesson sinks in is another. Any skill…
Read MoreYou Can Lead A Horse To Water…
This is a four part series of blogs addressing the question “Can Abrasive Employees Really Change?”. Part I addressed the importance of the managers working through their own anxiety before intervening with the abrasive employee. Part II outlined key elements of a proven change process. Part III discussed accountability as both helping to sustain change…
Read MoreThis Leadership Approach Accelerates Change
This is a four part series of blogs addressing the question “Can abrasive employees really change?”. Part I addressed the importance of the manager working through their own anxiety before intervening with the abrasive employee and staying calm. Part II outlined key elements of a proven change process. Today in Part III, we discuss a…
Read MoreSteps To Turn Around Abrasive Employee Behavior
This is a four part series of blogs addressing the question “Can abrasive employees really change?”. In Part I we addressed the importance of the manager working through their own anxiety before intervening with the abrasive employee. Today we address how to create the conditions of change through a proven change process. Change…
Read MoreWhen Your Purpose Is Taken Away
Seventeen people arrived for the interview, nervous yet determined. You see this wasn’t your typical interview. It was an audition for a chorus line. The 17 people soon learned that only eight would be chosen, four women and four men. Then tension mounted. As the audition continued with the dancers learning more dance steps and lyrics,…
Read MoreA Mom Who Made Wrongs – Right
As most of you know before my current role as a speaker and coach I was a Marriage & Family Therapist, I had the privilege of watching individuals, couples, and families take the skills we discussed and turn around unresolved conflicts in their lives. During this week leading up to Mother’s Day, I remember one…
Read MoreUninvited Guests at The Holiday Table
Many of us will be sitting around a dinner table over the next several weeks as we celebrate the Holidays – be it with family, coworkers, or a neighborhood cookie exchange. The table represents a place of gathering, a time of connection, a place of replenishment – both in food and conversation. Sometimes there are…
Read MoreThe Choice To Choose
“In between stimulus and response there is a space, in that space lies our power to choose our response, in our response lies our freedom and our growth” ~ Victor Frankl The above quote is the basis of why I selected “A Conscious Choice” as the name of my business. I firmly believe we each…
Read MorePresent, But Not There
Presenteeism. This one word costs U.S. employers between $150-260 billion a year. It’s a concept that is identified as a contributing factor to lower productivity and higher costs to employers. By definition presenteeism is usually associated with employees coming to work who are medically ill, have an injury, or have an underlying anxiety. In other…
Read MoreHow One Woman’s Internal Peace Saved Her Life and Hundreds of Others
We handle external conflict well when we have internal peace. On August 20, 2013, Antoinette Tuff was a shining example of this concept. She started out her typical work day at Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy Elementary School, where she was suddenly met with a gunman who entered the school stating, “We are all…
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