The Numina Blog

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...

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 waiting to be...

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...

When we take on a new client, we test for 12 essential human skills. One of these is the ability to enter the other’s reality. Successful people can see and feel what the world looks like through another person’s eyes. Election times, for example, highlight how...

Success in any creative endeavor depends on trust. If your colleagues trust you, they will give in ways they didn't know were possible. If banks and investors trust you, they will finance your projects. In deep personal work, if a client trusts you, he or she will see...