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Cultivate Success for Your Organization with a Culture Transformation

For centuries, culture has played an integral role in how humans live and work. The culture someone grows up in can shape the arc of their life journey. An individual raised in a strict or closed-minded culture may be more likely to avoid taking risks or maximizing opportunities than someone who lived their life without limits. In a nation, village, family, or organization, culture begins at the top. One of the biggest challenges of leadership [...]

Revolutionize your Organization with a Tailored Employee Well-Being Strategy

Recently, a friend of a friend approached me in distress, sharing her struggles as a leader facing ongoing employee disengagement and workplace stress. Despite her best efforts to implement conventional solutions, she saw no improvement. Morale was low and productivity had taken a hit. Recognizing the need for a holistic approach to address these issues, I guided her toward a solution that, while revolutionary to her, was one of the most effective tools I use [...]

Wondering How to be More Resilient? Try Whistling While you Work

Cue scene. Seven exceptionally joyous guys skip in, surrounded by chirping birds and scurrying mice. Leading the way is a beautiful princess in a glamorous gown. They’re singing and dancing together in perfect harmony and you can practically feel pure happiness radiating off of them. Plot twist. They’re not at a fancy ball… they’re working. For most people, that’s not how a typical workday goes. If it does, more power to you. But many of [...]

Level Up Your Leadership Strategy with Emotional Intelligence

During shelter-in-place, some people learned to bake sourdough, some turned their living rooms into gyms and others found solace binge-watching true crime. If you jumped on that bandwagon and watched too many hours of TV to count, you may have noticed that Mensa pops up fairly often in the tales being told. Obviously, being a genius and a serial killer do not go hand in hand, but the term “evil mastermind” does ring a bell. [...]

Increase Workplace Productivity by Harnessing the Power of Empathy

Have you ever been so immersed in a movie that you find yourself riding an emotional rollercoaster with the characters as their stories unfold? Whether or not you’ve experienced the same situations as the characters, by putting yourself in their shoes, you demonstrated the innate ability to understand their feelings and actions. This is empathy shining through. As humans, we have the ability to be empathetic, and the movie industry uses this to its advantage. [...]