Honoring Their Nature
This week, we’re talking about working with natural behaviors to achieve stellar results.
Determining Shared Success
Only when you know what success looks like can you effectively work toward it.
Recognizing the Good in the Bad
Humans tend to provide feedback around negative behaviors when, in fact, providing feedback around positive behaviors is far more productive in the long run.
Keep Noticing Good Behaviors
When you want someone to change a behavior you need to continue to give them information about their success, otherwise they’ll revert back to old patterns
Ignoring Problem Behaviors
This week, ignore an irritating but not destructive behavior while watching for a positive behavior that you would like to see expand in its place.
Rewarding the Right Behaviors
Defining powerful, impactful behavior and recognizing / rewarding it, will help you accelerate success in your team, department, and organization.
When Life Feels Dark and Heavy
One of our clients recently had a difficult month, and a dear friend and mentor sent him this writing by John McQuiston called “Each Day”. We want to share it with you, as it is an important reminder when life feels dark and heavy. Each Day At the beginning of each day, after we open our eyes to receive the light of that day, as we listen to the voices and sounds that surround us, we must resolve to treat each…
Great Questions Can Change Your Life
Last week, we wrote about Growing Your Wisdom built on the quote by Mark Twain: “Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would rather have talked.” At the end of that post, we promised that this week we would look at how to formulate questions that create meaningful conversations. Over the course of our careers we’ve discovered, time and again, that identifying a great question can dramatically change your interaction. We’ve talked about this…
Growing Your Wisdom
“Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would rather have talked.” ~ Mark Twain We love this quote from Mark Twain as it reminds us of a core truth – one must listen fully and completely to gain wisdom and perspective. And, wisdom and perspective can help us create more meaningful lives, more success in our service to others and to our work, and more impact in our worlds. Unfortunately, listening isn’t as natural…