If You Don’t Ask, You Don’t Get
All asking does is get an answer. It moves you from the ‘what if’ into the ‘what now’ or ‘what next’. Instead of fearing a negative outcome, enjoy the clarity that no or yes provides.
Do Carrots and Sticks work?
When stakes seem high and people aren’t producing, carrots and sticks often start to show up. But does it work?
If You Can’t Do, Teach
If you can’t do, you should teach. You learn best by teaching. Don’t overlook the opportunity that teaching can provide. It can make a big impact on you and others.
Why You Need a Coach
I have been a teacher for 17 years. In the first few years of work, my practice improved daily. However, after a few years, I noticed that my teaching plateaued. It wasn’t until I worked with an instructional coach that it really started to grow.
Why We Need to Add Goldilocks to Our Lives
To motivate people we need to assign Goldilocks Tasks - challenges that are neither overly difficult, nor overly simple. Finding that sweet spot brings joy and purpose into our lives.
Small Changes Can Make Big Differences
Friday night, date night! What a great way to end the week. Or so I thought…
Keep Up the Effort
Work, ideas and art can be good before they have been endorsed. Sometimes it takes time for greatness to be realized.
How to Build Culture Like Oxford
The way Oxford differs - and excels - is in its purposeful creation of community. Yet, building community doesn’t have to be challenging. It also may be less about picking the right people and more about setting the necessary conditions for community to thrive.
A Lesson Learned from the Great Resignation
The Great Resignation has been a surprising post-pandemic outcome. Entrepreneurship is on the rise. People want to have authority over their actions and surroundings and entrepreneurship is one way to accomplish this.
While this is great news for all those budding entrepreneurs, what about the rest of the workforce? Fortunately, they too can experience the same outcomes and rewards.
Accelerate
James Dyson once compared his business to long-distance running. The moment you feel tired is exactly when you should accelerate.
What NOT to Do When Leading an Online Workshop
I recently held a virtual workshop. It didn’t go as well as planned. But the experience showed me what didn’t work…
Letting Go of Limitations
When I was 23, I was in a head-on collision.
A lesson I can take away from this experience, almost twenty years later, is the importance of freeing myself from limiting thoughts.
Success is a Snowball
Whether it’s debt or any task you’ve been letting build up, start your snowball. Give yourself the push you need.
The Joy of Unexpected Gifts
No program or work environment is successful without ongoing support and appreciation. Consistent gestures create an environment of kindness and positivity where people genuinely enjoy coming to work.
Slower Can Be Better
For decades I have believed that more is more. Then I decided to stop striving. Somehow, I achieved greater quality by working less.
Can bosses be friends?
Keep the work environment inclusive. Friendships between bosses and subordinates makes this difficult to do.
Managing Expectations
About 15 years ago I presented at one of my first academic conferences. I am not sure what I was expecting, but it wasn’t this.
