Posts filed in Featured Articles.
How Leaders Get Others to Follow
Posted by Sarah Eaton on Jun 7th, 2010. Related posts: Achievement • Featured Articles • Leadership • Recognition.
CEOS. Parents. Dishwashers. Teachers. Children. Anyone can be a leader, including you. When you bring the best out in others so they become higher-performing with and for others – you are a leader.... More »
Does Your Team Operate as a Community?
Posted by Marcia Reynolds on Apr 3rd, 2010. Related posts: Camaraderie • Collaboration • Featured Articles • Team Development • Teamwork.
I lived in a shared household when I went to graduate school in San Francisco. Every Sunday night, we held a “house meeting” where all six of us met to dole out the week’s tasks for maintaining the... More »
Help Employees Recognize Their Role and Value
Posted by David Murray on Mar 17th, 2010. Related posts: Featured Articles • Influence • Leadership • Team Development.
You communicate with employees for a hundred reasons — to keep them “in the loop,” “up to speed,” “on the same page” — but what is the overarching purpose? You should try to make your company,... More »
Are You Facing Screens More Than Faces?
Posted by Jeff Davidson on Feb 26th, 2010. Related posts: Book • Featured Articles • Habit • Productivity.
Are you (or someone you love) spending more time staring at a computer or smart phone rather than face-to-face with friends, colleagues and out those you see out and about? Surveys indicate that excessive... More »
How to Make Meetings NOT Suck
Posted by Suzi Pomerantz on Jan 10th, 2010. Related posts: Featured Articles • Leadership • Productivity • Work.
You’ve probably been in meetings that wasted your time. Not just the idle chatter, or the time spent waiting for tardy attendees but the meetings that are overly long – and don’t enable individuals... More »
Working for Good? Just Connect!
Posted by Jeff Klein on Nov 6th, 2009. Related posts: Book • Camaraderie • Featured Articles • Listening.
I vividly remember one day when my daughter Meryl Fé was 8. As was often the case, I was in somewhat of a hurry, and needed to get her moving, out of the house, to the car, and on the road. The more anxious... More »
Listening: An Act of Love
Posted by Dianna Booher on Sep 3rd, 2009. Related posts: Communication Skills • Featured Articles • Listening • Love.
Many people now pay a psychologist to fill the role a friend used to play. When we open one of the modules in our interpersonal skills course with this first line, attendees nod, as if struck for the... More »
SOAPBOX® Motivation: Time to Speak Up
Posted by Kimberlie Dykeman on Aug 3rd, 2009. Related posts: Book • Featured Articles • Listening • Teamwork.
Truth is innately simple. Almost naively so. It presents itself without airs, fanfare, or candy-coated shell. It is what it is and yearns to be hung out there as bare as possible. When it becomes... More »
What makes us stick together in marriage?
Posted by Tim Kellis on Jul 27th, 2009. Related posts: Conflict Resolution • Featured Articles • Love • Spiritual.
With our rampant culture of divorce it is now more important than ever to understand what makes us stick together in marriage. One of the new aspects of marriage today is we now date before getting married,... More »
Feeling Edgy? Maybe It’s Time to Take the Plunge
Posted by Jane Pollak on Jul 22nd, 2009. Related posts: Achievement • Featured Articles • Talent • Trust.
As a long-time entrepreneur, “go for it” has become my mantra when it comes to risk taking. Too many people look back on their lives and regret that they were afraid to take a risk to achieve a goal. In... More »
Lōkahi Teams Require Lōkahi People
Posted by Rosa Say on Jul 13th, 2009. Related posts: Collaboration • Featured Articles • Teamwork • Work.
“Lōkahi seeks the harmony of bringing people to agreement. It’s the value of cooperation, collaboration and unity.” These are the words I most often use from Managing with Aloha when asked why... More »
Boomer Friendships: Making up for Lost Time
Posted by Carol Orsborn on Jul 7th, 2009. Related posts: Camaraderie • Featured Articles • Friendship • Happiness • Women in Relationships.
Recently, my adult daughter and a pack of her girlfriends descended on our house for chili. At 24, she has maintained and grown a social cohort who genuinely enjoy each others’ friendships. Maintaining... More »
