I left my Coaching for Personal and Professional Mastery (CPPM) program at Newfield Network in 2005 with a sense of sadness. Not only would I miss seeing people who became a meaningful part of my life for a few months; I knew I would miss the stimulation of new ideas and the challenge of trying on new behaviors. But, I […]
Listen my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year. …………..Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Most Americans have some knowledge of the midnight ride of Paul Revere; he rode a horse and warned […]
I remember the first time I recognized traces of desperation in a leader’s voice. I was on the phone with a high school principal I had never met who lived on the east coast of Florida. We were discussing high school sports, and she veered off the topic to make a comment that let me know […]
“Developing excellent communication skills is absolutely essential to effective leadership. The leader must be able to share knowledge and ideas to transmit a sense of urgency and enthusiasm to others. If a leader can’t get a message across clearly and motivate others to act on it, then having a message doesn’t even matter. […]
When I was a child and my parents took me to church, I frequently heard about forgiveness—usually in terms of specific indiscretions. I also heard about forgiveness in terms of turning the other cheek, which I tended to believe saintly or very noble people did more often than regular people. I recognized the need to maintain […]
Have you ever said, “I’m not sure why, but I just don’t trust him (or her).” Maybe your intuition is tapping into the Body-Emotion-Language Connection. It is clear that we lose trust through broken promises, but body language also promotes or prevents trust. In the 1980’s, Albert Mehrabian conducted research that led to the often-quoted statement […]
