Authenticity

Can Toxic Teams Change?

Healthy teams are a thing. The key to achieving it is focusing on something called psychological safety. Sounds hard, but the tactics are pretty straight forward.

Heading for the second mountain

If the first mountain is about building up the ego and defining the self, the second is about shedding the ego and dissolving the self. If the first mountain is about acquisition, the second mountain is about contribution.

No, no, not me

One of the organizations I worked for was full of small “p” politics. Our employee recognition program should have given out Emmy Awards as there was more drama than a day-time soap opera. Looking back now, the headwaters of the drama came from a lack of trust, a lack of accountability, and self-preservation skills that had been learned over time.

Real Men Quilt

They say you shouldn't meet your heroes, just in case actually getting to know them ruins the image you've conjured up — not so, in my case. In fact, my Dad was a hero to me and many others.

Take this job and...

We have talked about this before, but here are three simple reasons why you should hit the delete button on a scorched earth resignation email.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Show Me Your Scars

This is Remi the cow dog. He was born to do one job - a job that he loves - herding.

HR Pep Talk #2

Courage Over Comfort

These women were so authentic and proud of what they had accomplished, but they were also reiterating the experience that I was wanting. Listening to them, it wasn’t just words about what it could be like. They were sharing a true experience.

HR Pep Talk #1

Dear HR friends, do any of the following sound familiar?

Warren G. Bennis

I was built to do this. - Todd McCauley

It was a blast to hear from Todd McCauley. Todd is a pilot, adventurer, and entrepreneur. He is the owner / agent of CENTURY 21 Eagle Rock, a full-service real estate brokerage in Eagle, Idaho. Through years of experience, trials, misses, and successes, Todd created a goal execution process that will blow your mind. In deploying his model, Todd has had extraordinary results in all areas of his life. In what will be a three-part series, Todd shares a roadmap anyone can follow.

You Throw Like a Girl

I was trying out for the middle school girls’ basketball team and during the third day of try-outs, the male coach pulled me aside and said, "You are way too aggressive on the court. If you want to make the team, you need to play like a girl. This is a girls’ team not a boys team."

Lucky

The power of vulnerability

Brené Brown studies human connection -- our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity. A talk to share.