Vulnerability is Sexy!

Overcoming fear in decision making

I’m kind of sick of writing about “leadership change”… I can’t change people and neither can you.  But what I can do is cause a disturbance.  I use to let fear run my game.  Then at about age 37, I tapped out.  I was exhausted with trying to make sure everybody was happy…and that’s when […]

Entitlement – It Rears Its Ugly Head From Time to Time

Employee Accountability in workplace

Today’s post is from guest blogger Heather Kinzie. Heather has been a Human Resources professional for nearly 20 years.  She likes to make things better so she develops/presents training courses and facilitates team/process/strategy improvement events.  Her clients benefit from her expertise and her insight but moreover, they appreciate her pragmatic and often brutally honest thoughts, […]

How to Create a Corporate Culture of Innovation

If you want your company to be innovative, you need a support system for innovation. Seems a little obvious, right? Maybe not. This Global Innovation 1000 study shows that one key thing innovative companies have in common is a culture that supports innovation. However, only half of the companies surveyed have this kind of culture. Wow. Here’s what the study […]

Creating Teams in the Workplace

DPA (Designing Your Partnership Alliance) Have you been picked to be The Chosen One to lead a winning and dynamic team to victory?  When I think about the definition of a true leader, it’s someone who is humble yet confident, as well as fearless, passionate and resilient against the critics.  It’s an individual who always […]

Free Your Mind

The True Meaning of Diversity in the Workplace

In many situations, it invokes emotions and heated debates like nothing else and in other situations it stimulates innovation and growth, leading companies to great success. IT is nine letters, one word. Diversity. Free Your Mind How can one “thing” result in two such varying outcomes? Simple. With diversity comes difference. It involves variances in […]

Got the Promotion? 5 Steps for Managing Your Former Peers

5 Steps to Navigating the Shift in Power

The hottest months of the summer are also the hottest months for earning a promotion at work. Once you get the promotion, though, there are plenty more challenges on the way. Now you might be in a position where you have to manage your former peers. There will be an abundance of mixed feelings among your coworkers. Some […]