a day to create looking for inspiration paint, write, photograph Join me in sharing an original Haiku every day this month, or simply comment on this post with your unique Haiku.
30 Day Haiku Challenge #3
beautiful morning sun glistens on the water sunshine makes me happiest Join me in sharing an original Haiku every day this month, or simply comment on this post with your unique Haiku.
30 Day Haiku Challenge #2
a misty morning the smell of boat gasoline summer lake cabin Join me in sharing an original Haiku every day this month, or simply comment on this post with your unique Haiku.
30 Day Haiku Challenge #1
my fear of flying a nervous flight attendant stow all sharp objects Join me in sharing an original Haiku every day this month, or simply comment on this post with your unique Haiku.
Communicating Reflectively
I’ve always prided myself on my communication skills. I’ve always felt confident that I could string the right words together to get a point across. In fact, I’ve been able to get through a lot of difficult situations by capturing the essence of a problem and possible solutions through narrative. Several years ago, as a …
Plain Language
After more than 25 years in education, I’ve started to see with great clarity instances where some practices don’t align with research. I’ve also started to question the ways we message what we do. I recently read an article about “systems thinking,” which is basically the art of being able to see how things connect …
Three Conditions to Inspire and Empower Your Team
Great leaders inspire and empower others. They inspire members of their team by nurturing curiosity and intrinsic motivation. They empower members of their team by giving them a voice, sharing in the decision-making process, and promoting the idea that there are often multiple “right” answers. The culture of the organization also plays an important part …
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Sometimes you have to work at looking through the glass.
That may seem like an odd thing to say. However, because of the pandemic, a lot of us have gotten accustomed to engaging with others on the other side of a glass or plexiglass shield. This has made it challenging at times to discern the person on the other side from other objects reflected from …
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Shift to “Get to”
I’ve been curious about what motivates people for a long time. As such, I’ve spent a lot of time figuring out ways to establish the conditions by which team members are inspired. Incorporating opportunities for team members to link their purpose to their work, providing a degree of autonomy over how they work, and giving …
Embrace Imperfections
I’ve done some dumb things in my life. Like convincing a friend that we should swim down a local river so that we could collect all the jewelry and other precious things people had lost… …or when I challenged the same friend to kayak on Lake Michigan in March during a storm. …and I can’t …
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