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Fall is officially here and I love fall! We are just starting the season and I'm already anticipating what is to come: the glorious colors displaying nature’s color palette, enhanced by the sunlight. What do the colors of fall have to do with your leadership and your relationships? On this blog I share how differences can be celebrated and optimized instead of becoming a source of conflict and negativity. 

Decision making is traditionally viewed as a rational process where reason calculates the best way to achieve the goal. Research in recent decades reveals that emotions constitute potent, pervasive, predictable, sometimes harmful and sometimes beneficial drivers of decision making.

Effective communication costs very little and the results can transform both you and your business. In today’s post, I am going to share the 4 worst communication mistakes. By learning to avoid them, and what to do instead, you will save time and money, your influence will increase and you will have better personal and business relationships too.

Everybody would like to have more innovation. But here is the thing, can you forget what you have been taught from Kindergarten and not be afraid of failure? Because the biggest hurdle standing between you and innovation, and your biggest enemy is. . . Fear of failure.

Many of the complaints I hear around workplaces that have difficulties with diversity and inclusion have to do with the perception that there is lack of respect. I agree that is a big problem, and so ingrained that many times the only ones that notice it are the ones that are being disrespected. Today I give 4 suggestions on how to develop respect.

Two words that are very much in vogue nowadays are Diversity and Inclusion, or the lack of it. Today’s blog explores meanings of words and gives special attention to Inclusion, which focuses on making the growing diversity of the workplace function better. It’s about empowerment, engagement, and respect. It is valuing the view points, beliefs, and practices of others.

Team resilience is the capacity of a group of people to respond to change and disruption in a flexible and innovative manner. In the face of adversity, resilient teams maintain their work productivity while minimizing the emotional toll on their members. Today’s blog focus is on 6 ways you can build individual and team resilience during a crisis.

In coping with the swiftness of the changes sweeping through and disrupting our lives, often our livelihoods right now, let’s dive a little deeper into how to cope. For many folks the disappointments and difficulties are beginning to tip into potential disaster. In today’s blog, discover the 6 C’s of Coping.

It’s challenging enough to manage yourself in quarantine without face-to-face human interaction and the structure of a typical workday. Now add to that the task of managing a team under those conditions, especially when you’ve never done it before. It can be daunting. This week’s post gives suggestions of what can help you be a better leader through a crisis.

In times like the one we are living at right now, it’s easy to see how one of the most difficult issues people are dealing with is the unknown. . . You might be having a bit of difficulty with it too. This blog invites you to look at not knowing as a gift.

As we enter more deeply into what I call a “panicdemic” due to the COVID-19 virus I see people getting more and more stressed out about all of it. Today I want to dress how you can shift from powerlessness and anxiety to strength and calm by an easy to do 2 min. exercise that can help you start your way into other calming practices.

Volcanos tend to be unpredictable and as a result, people get uneasy, since they can’t be sure when or how things can happen around them. Some leaders are like volcanos, unpredictable! In today’s blog we explore the positives and negatives of unpredictability.