by karen | blog, Leadership, performance improvement, teams |
How can a healthy woods or forest help us understand high-functioning teams and the great resignation? A healthy forest has a diverse species of trees, bushes, and ground cover growing with some friendly competition to keep all healthy. It is sustainable and...
by karen | blog, communication, conflict, Leadership, performance improvement, teams |
Teams are like a woods. A healthy woods (team) has a variety of species who grow in their strength; the environment encourages their growth and contribution. Even in the winter, as I clear the entanglement of honeysuckle from my woods, I see such parallels to the...
by karen | Leadership, Spiral Daily |
What do people trust about you? Ordinarily, I think of trust as positive. Although, anything that is consistent about a person is something we learn to trust. Example, we can trust someone could be consistently late, or consistently in opposition to whatever we say,...
by karen | blog, conflict, Leadership |
Truth is stranger than fiction, which came to mind when I read Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton. If you didn’t know the story was true you’d enjoy it as great fiction. I was drawn to this book from an innovation/organizational development perspective and as a minor...
by karen | blog, centering, Leadership, performance improvement, Uncategorized |
Welcome Lauren Windle, guest blogger! Ahhhhhh… yes! Those were my spacey, blissed out feelings after a particularly good yoga class as I settled comfortably into savasana last week at a nearby yoga studio. Not so extraordinary, you might think, that’s what yoga is all...