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Archive for the ‘Consulting’ Category
Thursday, July 8th, 2010
This past week has been fascinating in terms of learning how the media works. It is not so much having something written about me, that has been done and it is always fun to see a book review about “Don’t Bring It to Work” or an article like the one in The Wall Street Journal a month ago.
That is so different from what has happened this week. I was asked to do an interview with radaronline.com. It is not the usual place you will find me. However, there I was talking with a reporter about one of the participants in our Total Leadership Connections program.
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Tags: Behavior, Coach, Coaching, Consulting, Don't Bring It to Work, Exploration, Jon Gosselin, Journey, Leadership Coach, Leadership Development Program, Leadership Program, Life Coach, Patterns, RadarOnline, Reflection, The media, The Wall Street Journal, Total Leadership Connections, Workplace Relationship Expert, Writing
Posted in Accountability, Behavorial Patterns, Children, Coaching, Collaboration, Communication, Conflict, Conflict resolution, Consultation, Consulting, Creative Energy Options, Executive Coaching, Leadership, Leadership Development Programs, Media, Parenting, PatternAware, Patterns, Power, Psychology, Reflections, Story, The media, Total Leadership Connections, Transformation, Trust, Truth, Workplace Relationships | 3 Comments »
Monday, June 28th, 2010
 Hey, take a minute and look in the mirror. Not to judge, just to look. Now, what do you see?
Most of us will start with what is wrong. Sad but true. We live in a sort and judge, sort and judge world. We come from a fix and hide, fix and hide society. Think about teeth; how white is white enough? Why should teeth be super white anyway?
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Tags: Authentic Leadership, Judge, Judging, Leadership, Leadership development, Self Reflection, System
Posted in Communication, Conflict resolution, Consultation, Consulting, Creative, Diversity, Executive Coaching, Executive Education, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Development Programs, Patterns, Psychology, Reflections, The media, Transformation, Workplace Relationships | No Comments »
Friday, May 7th, 2010
 A female executive I am coaching called me very early this morning and complained about how hard Sunday would be for her. My response was not super professional; all I said was “Huh?”
She then launched into a soliloquy about the fact that she had made a conscious decision not to have children and every Mother’s Day she had tons of people who would look at her with sad expressions and either ignore the whole idea that she was childless or make banal comments about overpopulation or the fact that many people have children who drive them crazy.
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Tags: Coach, Coaching, Communication, Executive, Leaders, Leadership development, Leadership Development Program, Mother's Day, Pattern Interrupt, Patterns. Leadership, Total Leadership Connections
Posted in Behavorial Patterns, Business, Children, Coaching, Collaboration, Communication, Conflict, Conflict resolution, Consulting, Cultural Diversity, Diversity, Environment, Executive Coaching, Family, Holiday, Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Development Programs, Patterns, Reflections, Total Leadership Connections, Transformation, Truth, Workplace Relationships | 1 Comment »
Thursday, May 6th, 2010
 Anyone remember this really cool kids book? It came to mind yesterday when I was tired and felt “used up.” I complained to Herb, my husband with a litany of “blah blah blah, my hair, my face, wrinkles around my eyes, and more blah, blah, blah.”
He looked at me with his bemused smile and said “That’s all good, you are a velveteen rabbit, it’s what life is meant to be, to use us up before we exit this play called life.”
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Tags: Executive Coaching, executive consulting, Executive Education, Executive Teams, Leader, Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Program, Reflections, Self Awareness, Total Leadership Connections
Posted in Business, Coaching, Communication, Conflict resolution, Consulting, Executive Coaching, Executive Education, Executive Teams, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Development Programs, PatternAware, Patterns, Total Leadership Connections, Trust | No Comments »
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
 The following video has gone viral and is lots of fun to watch. It teaches some good lessons about the “first follower” as a leader. These early adapters are visionaries in their own right, and help make a movement happen.
In the video, we are talking about dancing at the beach: lots of fun and freedom and spontaneity. I would like to present a question and would love responses from all who are thinking about the ethics of followership.
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Tags: Arts, Bizarre, Dancing Guy, Dancing on the beach, Ethics, Follow the leader?, Health, Humor, Philosophy, Polarization, Recreation, Sound bite, TED conference
Posted in Accountability, Avoider, Boss, Business, Collaboration, Communication, Conflict, Consulting, Cultural Diversity, Diversity, Economy, Education, Employers, Ethics, Family, Health, History, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, Management, Marital coaching, Media, Neuroscience, PatternAware, Patterns, Psychology, Reflections, Super Achiever, Team Building, The media, default | 4 Comments »
Friday, January 8th, 2010
 As I was writing my Elegant Leadership blog about the poor choice of language from Michael Steele, of the Republican Party, I was reminded of a powerful scenario from a Leadership in Action program I led years ago.
There was a group of 24 business people from various organizations who gathered together for a week to understand leadership capabilities from an experiential perspective.
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Tags: Accountability, Behavioral Patterns, Coaching, Communication, Conflict, Cultural sensitivity, Diversity, Economy, Education, Family-Based Patterns, Fear, Health, History, Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Leaders, Native American, Native American Indian, neuropsychology, Neuroscience, pattern aware, Politics, Power, Psychology, Relationships, Resilience, Sankofa, Transformation
Posted in Accountability, Conflict, Consulting, Cultural Diversity, Diversity, Economy, Education, Ethics, Fear, Health, History, Honor, Human Resources, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, PatternAware, Patterns, Politics, Power, Psychology, Uncategorized | 28 Comments »
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
 We can thank Tiger Woods, John Edwards, and all the other guys who have been looking for love in all the wrong places. Or, have they?
Relationships are the most complex, most confusing, and most important part of what it means to be a human being. I am hoping that we have finally hit the wall looking at relationships through a superficial, selfish lens. Perhaps we can begin to look at what really matters in this interesting teen-decade of the century.
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Tags: behavior patterns, Behavioral Patterns, Communication, Family-Based Patterns, Infedility, Interactions, Relationships, Sankofa, Transformation
Posted in Accountability, Communication, Conflict, Consulting, Ethics, Integrity, Marital coachiing, Neuroscience, PatternAware, Patterns, Politics, Power, Psychology, Reflections, default | 40 Comments »
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
I am so delighted to introduce you to my new blog “Elegant Leadership” that will be posted at http://blog.ceoptions.com/ after the New Year. Since I love to write I will have a more personal blog at www.sylvialafair.com to include thoughts and ideas about relationships, health, and education, as well as business.
Elegant Leadership will include all my newest research concerning leadership. I will suggest the best books, articles, and unique individuals I can find to help you on the difficult daily journey of being the best leader you can be.
Why did I choose the title “elegant leadership”? I honestly think it chose me. I woke up with the term, like a drum beat, repeating over and over in my head. Maybe I had a dream about it, not sure. All I know is, I love the word “elegant” as it is used in scientific realms. In nature elegant signifies finding the simplest and most precise way of responding.
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Tags: Accountability, Behavioral Patterns, Book, Family-Based Patterns, Fear, Health, History, Leaders, Leadership, leadership programs, Management, Media, Money, neuropsychology, Neuroscience, Politics, Power, Psychology, Relationships, Resilience, Stress, Super Achiever, Team Building
Posted in Accountability, Boss, Business, Coaching, Collaboration, Communication, Conflict, Consulting, Diversity, Economy, Ethics, Executive Teams, Fear, Health, History, Holiday, Honor, Human Resources, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, Management, Marital coaching, Media, Money, Neuroscience, PatternAware, Politics, Power, Psychology, Reflections, Super Achiever, Team Building, The media, Uncategorized, Workplace Relationships | 7 Comments »
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
Tiger Woods’ stories are touching almost every aspect of life in organizations today. Does he owe anything to the golfing community where he is seen as a CEO of sorts? Does he owe anything to his previously adoring public? Of course he owes much to his family, not just wife and children. What about his mother, and mother-in-law who fainted, assumingly from the stress, last week?
One area that could possibly shed some light on the issues of today would be to look at the life Tiger had as a youngster and how that has played out in his adult work-life. This is simply another perspective to consider. Having worked as a family therapist for years, I know first hand that what goes on in someone’s, anyone’s home, is multilayered and complex and cannot be analyzed into two simple categories of good Tiger, and bad Tiger.
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Tags: Accountability, Behavioral Patterns, Conflict, Ethics, Family therapy, Family-Based Patterns, Health, Leadership development, leadership programs, pattern aware, Psychology, Relationships, Stress, Wealth vs Health, Workplace Relationships
Posted in Accountability, Avoider, Coaching, Communication, Conflict, Consulting, Education, Employers, Fear, Health, History, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, Money, PatternAware, Patterns, Power, The media, Uncategorized | 24 Comments »
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Are leaders measured by different standards than the rest of us? If not, they should be! They are the ones who set the standards of what matters at work, or in society, and if they are in the “Follow me, I know the best way to go” mode, then we really need to ask and understand what and why we should follow.
It is time to evaluate our teachers, our politicians, our gurus by standards that show they live what they teach. However, are sports stars or media moguls in the same classification? They are great at letting us know the best way to swing a bat, make a basket, run a race or what to wear to be hip and in. That is a far different cry than how to live a life.
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Tags: Accountability, Behavioral Patterns, Coaching, Communication, Conflict, Ethics, Family-Based Patterns, Fear, Health, Relationships, Role model, Super Achiever, Team Building
Posted in Accountability, Coaching, Consulting, Education, Employers, Ethics, Executive Teams, Fear, Health, Leaders, Leadership, Marital coaching, PatternAware, Patterns, Psychology, Reflections, Super Achiever, Workplace Relationships | 6 Comments »
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