In your leadership journey have hard skills or soft skills been proposed as more useful to your success as a leader? 

Many leaders would respond that hard skills are a given because they are the skills “seen and measured.”  Hard skills are...

Self-awareness is a word leaders know yet how do we define it? 

What is self-awareness? 

1. Uncovering who you are
2. What you are
3. How you are 
4. Why you are! 

This is self-awareness!

There are so many benefits of taking the time to know...

What does it mean to cultivate a baseline of gratitude?

It is common knowledge that there are amazing benefits to the presence of gratitude in a person’s life. Some of the benefits measured are a healthier life, happiness, meaningful relationships, and...

Do you remember when Pluto was no longer classified as a planet? For decades you learned that Pluto was something that now is no longer. The reality of this requires you to unlearn what once was in order to relearn the new.

It can be a scary and daunting task to take what...

Do you consider yourself a lifelong learner? Most people think being teachable or a lifelong learner means you’re willing to keep learning new things, new ideas, and new skills.

That’s what I used to think. I was wrong.

Being teachable not only means...

You grow exponentially as a leader when you increase your ability to share knowledge that is timely and relevant across professions.  Avoiding interprofessional collaboration keeps you living in a bubble where you have solutions that fit you but perhaps no one else.

Life is difficult, painful, unfair, and unpredictable. When faced with difficulties beyond our control, there is an increased need for leaders to use their unique gifts and talents to uncover hope.

Sharing hope is an important form of indirect communication to move...

The concept of a decided heart comes from speaker and author Andy Andrews in his book “The Traveler’s Gift", published twenty years ago.

A leader with a decided heart is one who is not just thinking about themselves but focused on the greater good.

Four...

Today’s leaders need to hone their soft skills like never before. There’s nothing “soft” when it comes to soft skills development. In fact, soft skills are some of the hardest skills you will ever seek to acquire. 

In the USA, prior to March...

An effective leader should make space for generative dialogue. The word “Generative” speaks to the ability to produce, to originate. “Dialogue” comes from the Greek and translates into “meaning through words.” Putting the two words...