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Archive for the ‘Marital coaching’ 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 »
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 »
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 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 »
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
In a recent Psychology Today article, there was an old spin on the Tiger Woods affair. He did what he did, “because he could”, suggests the PhD psychologist. It was the aphrodisiac of power that lured him into “misbehaving”.
Remember when Bill Clinton had the whole world riveted with his shenanigans in the oval office? Lots of time went into the discussion of “should we care or not, and “whose business is it anyway”? and “it only belongs with the family”.
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Tags: Accountability, Behavioral Patterns, Ethics, family patterns, Family-Based Patterns, Intimate relationship, Leadership development, pattern aware, Relationships, Tiger Woods
Posted in Accountability, Coaching, Ethics, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, Marital coaching, PatternAware | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Why do we care what happened to Tiger Woods and his car accident? Do we care if the same thing had happened to a next door neighbor? What is the reason we salivate and wait for the next bit of news about celebrities and their private lives?
Maybe we are just getting ready to accept the fact that it is an illusion to want to separate who we are at home from who we are at work from who we are in the media from who we are at a party from who we are at the gym from who we are……get the point?
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Tags: Accountability, Behavioral Patterns, Coaching, Communication, Ethics, Family-Based Patterns, Leadership development, leadership programs, Patterns, Power, Workplace Relationships
Posted in Accountability, Coaching, Communication, Conflict, Education, Ethics, Executive Teams, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, Marital coaching, Media, PatternAware, Patterns, Team Building, The media, Workplace Relationships | No Comments »
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Lots of buzz about Tiger Woods and a party girl is coming to the surface after the car crash on Thanksgiving. What does it mean to you and to me? Does it really matter if he is having an affair? Does it matter that he won’t talk to the police? Does it matter that Nike is standing by their guy?
All of this will swirl for a week or two and then fall into that mysterious void where old stories go as new ones emerge. One thing we know is that Tiger is a great golf player. Beyond that what are his virtues? Have we ever voted for him to be an exemplary leader? Do we really all want our kids to be like him? Is it all about money and recognition?
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Tags: Accountability, Behavioral Patterns, Ethics, Family-Based Patterns, Leadership, leadership programs, pattern aware, Positive role models, Power
Posted in Accountability, Coaching, Communication, Conflict, Consulting, Ethics, Honor, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, Marital coaching, Media, PatternAware, Patterns, Super Achiever, Team Building, The media, Workplace Relationships | 3 Comments »
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