What Actually Moves the Needle

I often hear people tell me: “You cannot actually change people.” In the way this is spoken, it is totally true. Team leaders and marital partners alike know what it is like to bloody your head against the brick wall of trying to get someone to be who they are not....

3 Ways to Ask More from Your People

These days, most leaders are asking more of their people. We have clients who have asked their teams for pay cuts or to defer salary, or departments to make sacrifices to meet reduction in force targets and do extra work to earn every available scrap of revenue. How...

Find the Deeper Truth

When someone answers the question,”What’s up for you?” the response you receive will typically be a story or two about people and situations that are currently grabbing their attention. Inside those stories is often the kernel of a truth about the teller...

How to Set Boundaries

**originally published November 23, 2020** Many people report difficulties setting boundaries and drawing clear lines. This may be affecting your performance as well. Does it seem to you like there’s too much to do and not enough resources? Are you constantly...

Origination Happens in Dark Times

As you track a person’s life, there are obvious cycles and rhythms. Up times and down times. Same for a team, city or the planet even. For example the more sensitive among our clients report that, when they wake up in the morning, they can feel the mood of their city...