A Woman Scorned
I was just informed that Hailey Glassman is proposing to write a book about all the “dirt” from the Gosselin drama. All I can say is “Enough “ and “Where are her parents”?
Archive for the ‘Communication’ Category
A Woman Scorned
Friday, September 3rd, 2010Enough!!!! Already!!!
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
Many of you may know that Jon Gosselin is in our “Total Leadership Connections” program and he, along with the other participants is peeling away the encrusted layers of old hurts, old betrayal, and old beliefs.
The process of becoming a leader is a rigorous one. He has had to face his demons and slay a few dragons on the way to self-awareness. This has been made more complex every time there is another gossipy tidbit on sites such as Radar-Online.
Workplace Dilemmas: Judging Your Judgment
Monday, August 30th, 2010In the past few weeks I have been pruning my own inner garden. Sadly, there were weeds taking over the beauty of the flowers. Some of my weeds had to do with patterns I wanted to deny, like being a denier. And it has gotten in the way of my best judgment. I felt like the shoemaker without any shoes and I must admit I have been beating myself up, until an old friend said, “Well, remember, we always teach what we need most to learn!” Guess I forget that too!
The following article about judgment is excellent. Take the time to read along with my response. In the meantime I am checking every moment, every conversation to make sure I am not denying the truth that sites at the heart each and every conversation.
Leadership and Storytelling
Friday, August 27th, 2010
Storytelling
We all know that the best way to get a point across it through a story and real, honest emotions. I have been getting lots of questions about the book that Jon Gosselin and I are writing together.
Leadership Dilemmas: In Bad Taste
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010Sometimes the pattern of pleaser gets more play than what is healthy and appropriate. This whole mosque issue is about much more than freedom of speech. It is about dignity, honoring, each other and real deep down sensitivity.
Those who resonate with the pleaser pattern, that manner of being where to be liked, accepted, maybe in the “in crowd” means always saying “yes” to what is presented is the blind side of discrimination.
No, I don’t mean discrimination as in the black-white issue, or the Israeli-Palestinian issue, I mean in the ability to discriminate between what is really healthy and appropriate and what is just going along to make it easy.
3 Ways for Stress to Work for You
Monday, August 23rd, 2010
Stress O Meter
Stress and change are the most intimate of bedfellows. They feed on each other and can make days dark and depressing or exhilarating and enticing. We get to choose. But before we can choose, we need to peel back the layers and understand why change is such a complex force and how simple responses with one word can make all the difference..
Creating a Winning Workplace
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
Winning Workplace
Just arrived back from California and felt so proud and honored to be with the folks who are at “control central” at CEO. Everyone is busy buzzing along with tasks and projects and a piece that is in short supply in most companies, fun.
Leadership, Bears, and the Honey Pot
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
Interesting that most little kids get a teddy bear at one point in their babyhood, and of course there is always Winnie the Pooh to warm hearts. All animals have a symbolic message and symbols go deeply into the unconscious parts of our thinking and feeling. This post by Arianna Huffington is excellent. She asks us to think about what we read and hear and then what we think about what we read and hear. For me Arianna represent an eagle that is able to soar above the fray and notice all the subtleties of what is going on.
Sarah Palin, “Mama Grizzlies”
Workplace Conflict: A Stone in My Shoe
Monday, August 2nd, 2010
Last week a client called to tell me he couldn’t sleep. I knew just to listen. Then he said he was losing his appetite. I knew just to listen. Then he said something interesting, “It’s like, Sylvia, like every step I take there is a stone in my shoe and when I stop to shake it out there is nothing there.” He then admitted he felt stupid telling me that and yet, and yet, the gnawing, uncomfortable feeling would not go away.
Workplace Conflict: Bigger than Ever Before
Friday, July 30th, 2010
Workplace Conflict
Do you think there is more workplace conflict today than, say, ten years ago? If you said yes, you are right. More companies are reporting that stress is super high and that arguments are over the top.