Is ‘Live and Let Live’ Useful for Leaders?
I was recently coaching a young leader who had taken some kind of a self awareness test that provided her with the information that she is a conflict avoider. She was quite disturbed by this as she...
View ArticleThe Greatest Conflict? Conflict with Self
I think that the greatest amount of conflict is a person’s conflict within his or her own self. In some people, this shows up as the inner voice gets into judgment with self criticism. In other people,...
View ArticleGrief is Grief
In order for an organization to move forward without unnecessary and long term damage, it is imperative that we offer the opportunity for conversations that are based on emotions, and thus it is not as...
View ArticleWhen Change Occurs There is Collateral Damage
It is time to look at the impact of the loss of dreams when change occurs. Might the loss of these dreams be even harder to deal with than the change itself? Might loss of the dreams be what stops...
View ArticleReframing
Might it be that you need to add another part to the act of reframing? You might also need to reframe the loss of the ‘dreams for the future’. Continue reading → Continue reading →
View ArticleHope as a Leadership Competency
Through Monday’s ceaseless hope and his expression of it, even from his position as a driver in the agency, he demonstrated great leadership. He did not do this as a short sprint…he did it as a...
View ArticleHope and a Critical Mass
If it is true that an important leadership competency is instilling hope in people, how is it possible for a leader to carry out this competency while simultaneously not being able to make the kind of...
View ArticleThe Hope Factor as a Leadership Competency
Imagine if you can, team building within a business unit of people, who have no sense of hope for a good future for their business unit or for themselves in their organization. Imagine the same team...
View ArticleStanding for What You Believe in as a Leadership Competency
The journey to leadership development starts with self awareness and then must move on to overcoming deep seated fears that get in the way of taking the stand that is necessary to claim one’s...
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Anchoring Energy
The leaders who work with us who seek to develop their abilities in working with the unseen world learn about anchoring energy. Put another way, they learn about the importance for people to experience...
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Grandfather Energy
Annually we participate in the Genuine Contact Summer Academy in Europe. The Summer Academy includes an international mentoring circle, a peer to peer learning opportunity. One of the highlights for me...
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Accessing Collective Intelligence in Organizations: Part One
Moving from fragmentation to connectedness In alignment with one of my favorite Albert Einstein quotations,”The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking...
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Collective Intelligence: Part Two
Working with archetypes My exploration has taken me through an interesting journey that often challenged my previously held perspectives, causing me to discard patterns of thought and behavior that no...
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Collective Intelligence: Part Three
Learning from the elders During the 1980’s, I also expanded my career from responsibility for public relations in one organization, to achieving a life dream of becoming CEO of another organization....
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Collective Intelligence: Part Four
A gift to the human race I was also grateful to receive news in 1991 that it was time for the Medicine Wheel to be given by the red race of the native people to be used by the full human race. The red...
View ArticleCollective Intellegince: Part 5
Use of participatory meetings to access collective intelligence Immediately upon this gift of the Medicine Wheel being released and my awareness of it, in rapid succession, I met Harrison Owen and...
View ArticleCollective Intelligence: Part 6
The advent of positive psychology Judging by the focus of people’s thoughts and conversations, knowing what works seems to be harder to know than what doesn’t work. The newly emerging field of positive...
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View ArticleA Journey Nearing Completion
The second edition of The Genuine Contact Way is nearing completion. Editing is done, the designer has carefully placed all of the words and images into the book and the final proof is happening before...
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Genuine Contact for Small Business
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * This blog post is the first in our new bi-weekly small business column by Rachel Amanda. Rachel Amanda has...
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