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7 Strategies to Address Team Infighting
Would it surprise you to know that having conflict with your team is healthy? It’s true. Having healthy, respectful disagreements where everyone expresses their point of view is important and allows the best ideas to emerge. When handled well, conflict can actually make a team more cohesive. However, when disagreements...
How a Leader Created Psychological Safety With His Team
How do you as a leader handle team meetings when one-minute things seem to be going along well, and the next an employee makes a comment that blindsides you? Such was the case during a recent teambuilding training I was facilitating. It was like watching a leader on a hire...
3 Ways to Combat the Great Resignation
As you know, the Great Resignation is one of the greatest challenges facing organizations today. But do you know why your employees are leaving? Before assuming they're moving on for better pay or more flexibility (although that may be part of it), take the time to schedule at...
If you are the “Fixer” with your Team, Read This
Despite reaching esteemed professional goals, Maria was angry, resentful, and tired. She didn't even realize how stressed she was until one day her husband said to her "Why are you always yelling at us?" That question was a wake-up call for Maria. She was so used to shouldering the responsibility and...
Leadership Lessons From a Mother Who Righted Her Wrongs
Before becoming a speaker, author, and leadership coach, I was a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. This role gave me the privilege of helping individuals, couples, and families share their stories, learn new skills, and turn around the unresolved conflict in their lives. I often think of a woman named...
Toxic workplace? How One Woman Chose to Stay & Grow
"When I was growing up, I learned to be cautious of what I said because it could set my dad off in an angry outburst at any minute. Just like in my family when I didn't want to rock the boat with my dad, the same thing is happening at...
PTSD Myths & Identifying It In The Workplace
A year has passed since the fear and reality of COVID set into the western world. Our lives have been turned upside down in countless ways. Work is no longer what it was, kids are struggling to keep up, parents are overwhelmed and exhausted to no end. Businesses and...
Change Your Workplace Culture By Being Vulnerable
Would it change the way you think about your co-worker if you knew they were the oldest of five kids and they grew up in a single-parent home in a rural area? They became like parents themselves at a very young age and have little patience for child-like behavior or...
Succeed In Business By Investing In Employee Relationships
Spending resources on how leaders and employees treat one another is often considered a waste of time and money when there’s so much work to be done, strategy to be executed, and bottom-line results to be achieved. Many leaders think that focusing on healthy behaviors and emotional intelligence skills in...
The Connection Between Behavior And Your Bottom Line
One of the most common questions that executive leaders want to know is “Can you prove that improving workplace behaviors increases bottom line results?” Truthfully? Proving how healthy behaviors contribute to a high performing and profitable organization is difficult to measure. The proof is in the end result. Think of...