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Archive for the ‘Executive Teams’ Category
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
 Yesterday I talked about the tension at work where men are searching for ways to navigate that tough middle road between being a great employee or business owner and a father who is present for his children.
I saw this dilemma first hand at an off-site with a national sales group. Picture the scene: the team of 22 from a sales organization was at The Country Place Retreat Center to have some fun on our outdoors team challenge course and to take advantage of our new program called “Build and Give” where they would put some two wheeler bikes together that would then be donated to charity.
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Tags: Build and Give, Communication, Conflict, Family, Men, No, Ouch!, Soccer Dads, The Country Place Retreat, Women, Workplace
Posted in Behavorial Patterns, Business, Children, Collaboration, Communication, Conflict, Conflict resolution, Creative, Creative Energy Options, Executive Teams, Family, Human Resources, Innovative, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Development Programs, Marital coaching, Parenting, PatternAware, Patterns, Reflections, Story, Total Leadership Connections, Transformation, Trust, Tweets, Workplace Relationships, Youth | No Comments »
Monday, June 21st, 2010
 Hope all of you dads had a play day yesterday; and, even more importantly, that you were recognized and appreciated.
If you are an older dad, did you live in the “no guilt” zone? Or were there memories of missed little league games, missed school plays, missed opportunities to talk, really talk with the kids?
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Tags: Collaboration, Communication, Executive Coaching, Father's Day, Fathers, New York Times, Tara Parker-Pope, The Brady Bunch, Total Leadership Connections, Workplace conflict
Posted in Behavorial Patterns, Boss, Business, Children, Collaboration, Communication, Conflict, Conflict resolution, Creative Energy Options, Employers, Environment, Executive Coaching, Executive Education, Executive Teams, Family, Fear, History, Innovative, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Development Programs, Parenting, PatternAware, Patterns, Power, Reflections, Story, Total Leadership Connections, Transformation, Trust, Truth, Workplace Relationships, Youth, default | No Comments »
Friday, June 18th, 2010
In “Don’t Bring It to Work” I discuss the 13 behavior patterns that follow us from our original organization, the family into our work organization.
The BIG, I mean BIG question is “Why do we keep doing the same things over and over and over and over and over“?
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Tags: Avoider, Denier, Don't Bring It to Work, Family, Jon Stewart, Leaders, Observe, Organization, OUT Techinque, Pattern Spill, Patterns, Pleaser, Procrastinator, Transform, Understand, Workplace
Posted in Accountability, Avoider, Behavorial Patterns, Boss, Business, Collaboration, Communication, Conflict, Conflict resolution, Creative Energy Options, Economy, Education, Environment, Ethics, Executive Coaching, Executive Education, Executive Teams, Family, History, Innovative, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Development Programs, Media, PatternAware, Patterns, Politics, Splitter, Super Achiever, The media, Total Leadership Connections, Transformation, Trust, Truth, Victim, Workplace Relationships | No Comments »
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
I just saw a news bulletin that BP apologized for its mess. Certainly took long enough. Yet, there are so many who need to apologize, including Halliburton and other subcontractors.
 In any case, apologies do help when they are made with the intention of setting things right. We will see how big oil does in the days to come.
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Tags: Apologies, authenticity, Communication, Courage, Leadership, Leadership development, Observe, OUT, Transform, Transparency, Truth, Understand
Posted in Behavorial Patterns, Boss, Business, Collaboration, Communication, Conflict, Conflict resolution, Creative Energy Options, Employers, Ethics, Executive Coaching, Executive Teams, Integrity, Leaders, Patterns, Story, Total Leadership Connections, Transformation, Trust, Truth, Workplace Relationships, default | 2 Comments »
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 »
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
 What happens when as leaders we get stuck in our own stuff, when we have lost our own way? Where do we turn? How do we ask for help? After all leaders lead, they don’t follow!
The best time for growth is when we find ourselves in a pile of manure, and I agree with that concept. Actually growth and change do seem to come more effectively when we have been put in difficult situations more than when we are relaxing at the pool with a cool tropical drink in hand.
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Tags: Coaching, Collaboration, Communication, Conflict resolution, Direction, Executive Education, Leadership, Leadership development
Posted in Behavorial Patterns, Business, Coaching, Collaboration, Communication, Conflict resolution, Executive Teams, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, PatternAware, Patterns, Transformation, Workplace Relationships | No Comments »
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
Tags: Anger, Avoidance, Business, Denial, Ethics, Leaders, Leadership
Posted in Avoider, Business, Communication, Conflict, Conflict resolution, Economy, Ethics, Executive Teams, Health, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, Money, Patterns | No Comments »
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
Why is it so hard for all of us to get along? Why do we so often resemble the little kids in the school playground, either grabbing for what we want or sulking in the corner waiting for the teacher to save us? 
There is fascinating research about how behavior patterns are locked in our nervous system and how they come out to haunt us when we are stressed. It is time for us to “practice safe stress” and learn what our particular triggers are and how to keep them under control. It is also time for those of us in leadership positions to find new ways of handling workplace conflict by addressing the patterns that make us act like little kids. All leadership development programs should include a module on how patterns from our original organization, the family play out at work.
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Tags: behavior patterns, Business, Conflict resolution, Education and Training, Leadership, Leadership development, Management, Patterns, Safe Stress, Stress, Workplace conflict
Posted in Business, Collaboration, Communication, Conflict, Conflict resolution, Executive Teams, Leaders, Leadership, PatternAware, Patterns, Transformation, Workplace Relationships | 1 Comment »
Monday, March 1st, 2010
There was an excellent article by renowned leadership expert Michael Maccoby in the Washington Post about the upside and downside of “stretch goals”.
The Olympics, a perfect example of watc hing individuals and teams push themselves, motivated by the desire to achieve greatness. What Maccoby suggested is that we need to look at the fine line between going toward a vision that is possible and one that can ultimately turn sour.
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Tags: Accountability, Coaching, Collaboration, Communication, Conflict, Events, family patterns, Family-Based Patterns, Fear, Google, Health, History, Leadership, Michael Maccoby, Olympic, Sport, Summer Games, Summer Olympic Games, Team Building, Television, Washington Post
Posted in Coaching, Executive Teams, Family, Health, History, Leaders, Leadership, Neuroscience, PatternAware, Reflections, Team Building, The media, Transformation | 27 Comments »
Friday, February 26th, 2010
Stress and anxiety have been at the boiling point for the last year, and depending where you live, the weather has been the proverbial icing on the cake.
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Tags: Accountability, Anxiety, Behavioral Patterns, Blood pressure, Boss, Business, Coaching, Collaboration, Communication, Conflict, Consulting, Diabetes mellitus, Economy, Ethics, Family-Based Patterns, Health, Leaders, Leadership, Mental Health, Neuroscience, pattern aware, Physical exercise, Power, programs, Psychology, Relationships, Safe Stress Zone, Stress, Workplace Relationships
Posted in Accountability, Avoider, Boss, Business, Coaching, Collaboration, Communication, Conflict, Cultural Diversity, Diversity, Economy, Education, Employers, Ethics, Executive Teams, Family, Health, History, Human Resources, Leaders, Leadership, Management, Media, Money, Neuroscience, PatternAware, Patterns, Power, Psychology, Team Building, Transformation | 7 Comments »
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