Recently, one of my clients told me, “you listen fast,” I was stopped in my tracks and wasn’t sure what he meant. Many of us feel we don’t have the time to listen, especially these days with so much noise, distractions and competing priorities. Time feels squeezed more than ever. There is something about the word “listen” that implies you are ... [Read more]
1000 Days to Self-Mastery?
1000 days to self-mastery is an intriguing and overwhelming thought. 1000 days, really? What does this mean and why do it? In the Kundalini yoga tradition I practice it is said if you practice a meditation or a kriya for 1000 days you will experience self-mastery. A kriya is a series of postures, breath, and sound that work toward a specific ... [Read more]
Go Slow to Go Fast In The Age of Speed and Microwaved Cycles of Change
Speed seems to be the mandate these days. Yet "go slow to go fast" is a key phrase to keep in mind when focusing on productivity and managing personal energy. It's all about perspective. We live in an age of hyper connectivity with soundbites that compete for our attention at a deafening roar. The walls of our organizations are more porous than ... [Read more]
Are You Activated Enough?
What do I mean by activated? Are you engaged with your work, with your life? Are you clear on what you are doing and why? Do you feel energized by what you are doing and who you are being? If you are underactivated then there is no juice, you are not energized. You may even be depressed, cynical or checked out. This state doesn’t get you ... [Read more]
Creating Space. Good-bye 2016. Hello 2017.
Creating space is my mantra for 2017, to ensure I have a joyous, thriving year, regardless of what is going on around me. This past month, my email inbox has been flooded with people trying to thank me, sell me and give me messages over the holidays and for the coming year. I waited until the end of the year to publish my message. My ... [Read more]
How Do You Embrace A Love of the Challenge?
If you are a high achieving leader, you love nothing more than a meaty challenge. How do you find your sweet spot of being energized by a challenge that will stretch, and maybe tax you, but not overly so? It’s in overcoming our greatest challenges that we can feel really alive and accomplished. Yet there is a fine line between feeling the ... [Read more]
What Are The Critical Questions You Ask Yourself In Chaotic, Uncertain Times?
If you are wired like most humans, when confronted with uncertainty, your questions would be oriented from your limbic brain – how to create stability, security and safety for yourself. Your questions would be oriented more toward the short-term - solving your immediate problem versus satisfying a longer-term vision of where you really want to be. ... [Read more]
Are you an ambitious leader who is at a crossroads – with your team, career, or work/life equation?
I work with smart, successful, capable people, who make big decisions everyday. Sometimes it can be challenging to hold your own stuff when you are in the thick of it. My clients come to me as an objective third party who can hold the space for them, in a safe and neutral way, while they think through where they are, where they want to go, and ... [Read more]
Managing Oneself: An Evolution in Human Affairs
I continue to highlight excerpts from Harvard Business Review's book, On Managing Yourself. Peter Drucker's article, "Managing Oneself," gives a different perspective in how to stay engaged during the course of your working life. Because it is more commonplace today for people to outlive the organizations for which they work, and to be mobile, ... [Read more]
Leading Team Kickoff Meetings
I support my client’s in designing and planning all different kinds of a day or multiple-day team meetings. The purpose of these meetings could be strategy planning, visioning or organizational change meetings, such as restructuring departments. If you are planning a lengthy meeting (a half a day or more) where you are bringing a leadership team ... [Read more]
Leadership & The Art of Boundary Setting
Being a great leader requires you to have clear, strong boundaries – and also know when to be flexible and collapse or expand them. It’s knowing in any given moment where your boundary needs to be in light of: What you want to accomplish How you need to lead your constituents - what they need to hear and the way in which they need to hear ... [Read more]
Leadership Tips from Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton shares his thoughts on what makes a great leader. He gives clear and varied examples from world leaders on four key aspects of leadership. A great leader: Envisions Explains Includes Executes A great leader explains “here’s where we are and here is where we ought to go.” “You need to have a 30 second version, five ... [Read more]
Focus Friday: What Inspires You to Exceed Your Own Expectations?
A great question raised in this scene – What inspires you to exceed your own expectations? For me, it is surrounding myself with others who are striving or doing what I am trying to do. When I am going into unknown territory, it’s reminding myself that I possess a unique combination of skills, talents and experiences never before existing on the ... [Read more]
Focus Friday: How Do You Maintain Your Leadership Filter?
First, what IS a leadership filter? It’s how you personally filter and process information so you are passing on the right content and tone of your message to your constituents. Are you passing on stress, confusion, or clarity? I had several conversations with clients this week about this very point. When you are on your email late at night ... [Read more]
Focus Friday: The Journey from Trauma to Nurturance – Dentists Who Lead In Creating a Nurturing Environment
Dentistry, leadership and nurturing environment. Do all these words really go together in one thought? I don’t know anyone, other than my daughter, who loves going to the dentist. Most people hate going, perhaps because they fear needles, pain, the drill sound or just the unknown. I myself had a really bad experience about eight years ago. The ... [Read more]
Focus Friday: Are You Living In Passion or Stress?
Passion and Stress both harness strong emotions. Both move energy. It’s a question of what kind of emotion you are experiencing. What is passion? It’s a strong, exciting feeling that energizes you and is generative – it builds on itself. The online Merriam Webster dictionary also gives the following definitions: A strong feeling (such as ... [Read more]
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