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Getting Comfortable in Talking About Personal Power
How comfortable are you with your own power? The power you have for living, doing your part in your family, in your team, your organization, your community? For those who are determined to lead their...
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Benefits from The Power of Imagination
Using Participatory Meetings as a Catalyst to Soar I have a great privilege in life as a result of working internationally as a meeting facilitator and trainer. The meetings and the training are both...
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Grandma, if it moves, don’t pick it up! (or, Making Informed Choice)
Great granddaughter Scarlett, age three, invited me to go for a walk into the woods. She was clear on what she was inviting me to. “Grandma, we need a basket to collect things. We need a flashlight to...
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How my love for well done meetings began!
I am thinking about how my love of well done meetings started and then carried out as a theme through over four decades. My first awareness of the importance of a meeting was when I was twenty and in...
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Harvesting the Best Ideas
People want to be successful. They want their workplace, their non-profit organization, their neighborhood association, their congregation and their family to be successful. Wanting success is the...
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The Backstory….Are you getting it? And does it matter if you do?
Superheros always have a backstory that compels them forward in their hero’s journey. Whether it’s the violent loss of loved ones, a science experiment (or science accident) with unexpected outcomes,...
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An Incredible Leadership Advantage…Benefiting From the Stories People Tell
The people in an organization know a lot about what is going right and what is not. This information often doesn’t benefit the organization as it is shared at the water cooler, the parking lot or at...
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I am not Available for This…Story
I have been fascinated with the effects on a culture of the stories that get told over time. People want to work and live in a life nurturing culture, and yet their own frequently told stories add to...
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Monitoring and Adjustment
One of my less stellar moments as a five-year-old was the end of year report card. The subject was music. My rating was a D and the teacher's comment was 'she loves to sing but unfortunately is always...
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Leadership, Hurricanes, the Known and the Unknown
Leadership into the unknown and weathering hurricanes has a lot in common. I am not saying that leaders experience hurricanes all of the time. For periods, leadership can feel as though it is in...
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From ‘Coping with Change’ to ‘Thriving in Change’
One of the few constants in life is, ironically, change. Assuming this belief is true, then the choice becomes about whether you wish to spend your life coping with change or thriving in change. Your...
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Working Cooperatively Requires Boundaries
On elementary school report cards, there is a grade for 'working well with others'. In organizations, people are expected to develop (or already have) the skillfulness of working well with others, in...
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Boundaries at Work
Last week we wrote about the importance of personal boundaries in team development. If you agree that personal boundaries at work are important, you might find yourself wondering "but what do those...
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Imagine, if you will, that you are in a conversation about something that requires change. The conversation may be at work, at home, in the community. The change may be big or little. It is out of the...
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It’s All About the People!
“Where flowers bloom, so does hope.” --- Lady Bird Johnson I have always been fascinated by kitchen table wisdom. What I noticed, even as a young child, is that people come home and talk about work at...
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From Project Management to Change Facilitation
Some years ago I was contracted to do an assessment of a multi-million dollar bi-country project that was falling behind on its targets. The project was designed to bring about a significant...
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When Positive Change Doesn’t Always Feel Good
Change for the better, for something positive, for something you have been wanting…still brings about the dynamics associated with change. Dynamics like a sense of loss, resistance, or fear are common...
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How You Define Yourself Affects Successful Change
How do you define yourself? Have you ever stopped to think about it? The Story You Tell Yourself Pay attention to the narrative you tell yourself about yourself. That voice in your head tells you a...
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A Formula for Change: D x V x F >R
One of the most valuable formulas to use as a framework for change was developed by the late Kathleen Dannemiller. It provides guidance for all of us who work with whole system change including the...
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Why we promise engagement…but never safety or comfort
It’s a common message we hear from leaders we work with. You want safety and your comfort zone maintained in a meeting, all while insisting you want something to change! We facilitate a lot of...
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