Jill Bolte Taylor’s stroke of insight is an amazing testimony about the Left and Right Brain hemispheres, about a scientific passion to serve, about recover-ability driven by the human spirit and about “Who are We?” The miracle of Taylor’s story is first in how she was able to stay totally curious in a middle of a stroke episode, revealing that her fascination with brain function...
Read More
The corpus callosum is the largest bundle of nerves in the human body. It connects the two halves of your brain. It helps the right and the left hemispheres of the brain to communicate and coordinate their activity. As with your brain so is the case with your organization. Certain parts represent and are more inclined to “left brain” functions and other parts are by...
Read More
For Managers participating in our Top Talent, High Potential and Leadership Development Programs that include a Mentoring Engagement. Here are Mentoring Best Practices to help you make the most of your mentoring relationships. Further discussion about the difference between mentoring and coaching can be found here. What is Mentoring? Mentoring is: 1. Transferring relevant experience to help the mentee succeed. 2. Working in an informal...
Read More
To apply my “Jet lag free travel” strategy, understand that we humans have two energy systems. One system is slow in nature. The other is fast. The fast system handles new impressions, quick and unpredictable twists and turns and the instant responses you are required to produce. In your house you have the patterns of your life, which include how you get up in the...
Read More
It’s amazing and rather sad how new forms of addiction join the officially recognized list of addictions every year. We should all stop and ask – what does this picture tell us about the human condition? Why are so many people so out of balance? Are you addicted to your blackberry (crackberry)? Do you have an “involuntary habit” of checking your Smartphone every 64 seconds?...
Read More
Dear Leader, In a recent leadership summit I asked the participants this question: What defines a ‘bull market’? As this was not a Wall Street firm the managers looked surprised and eventually someone said: “I thought we were in a leadership meeting not in a seminar about investing. What does a ‘bull market’ have to do with the leadership and personal development conversation we were...
Read More
50 percent of coaching insights and decisions that are not acted upon are lost within 24 hours. More than 80 percent of coaching insights and decisions are lost if not acted upon within 72 hours. The best time to act on your decision and take your insight forward is always now. Every insight and decision must be validated and confirmed in action. Insight is an...
Read More
What is the role of a transformational consultant and coach? We help the client to transform and improve their condition. We design a process and create an experience that helps leaders grow and realize their vision. What is the most important competency to do this work? I believe it is the ability to learn – learn-ability. I learn so much from the people I work...
Read More
This story by Ben Dunlap tells of a Passionate Life that will move you to tears. It’s the power of his irresistible inspiration about courage and greatness that Dunlap communicates so evocatively. It is the belief that human beings are fundamentally good, that there is an insatiable curiosity and a desire to learn, and an irrepressible need to know and grow, and the inextinguishable drive...
Read More
