Coping With Change In Your Organization Today’s newslink is not to a news article, but to the Dodging Landmines video series posted on bnet.com, offering quick tips to leaders trying to help their teams through major changes in the workplace. If your workplace is like mine and you find yourself experiencing change firsthand, as well as [...]
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September 19, 2011Sunday Service
September 18, 2011It’s 2011 Peace Week! There are many organizations dedicated to the pursuit of peace; cultivating peace within ourselves, having a peaceful relationship with others, offering peaceful resolution to conflict, building peace within a community or culture, or striving towards global peace between nations. Click HERE to go to the Peace Week site and register. You will then [...]
Thank you Thursday
September 8, 2011Today and tomorrow, I am attending the Ohio Diversity Council’s 4th annual conference. I am attending presentations on some excellent topics: “Extraordinary, Powerful Women,” “Managing Four Generations,” Managing Diverse Talent,” “The Feminization of Leadership,” and more. We will hear wonderful speakers, such as DeeDee Myers, former White House Press Secretary; Donna Brazile, Democratic Party Strategist; [...]
Tuesday Tidbit
September 6, 2011Continuing with inspirations shared from our 2011 Leadership Summit, this week’s Tidbit is reactions to the Ideas Worth Sharing session, our version of TED Talks. For those of you not in attendance, three presentations were given; I led off speaking about “Servant Leadership,” Dave (company founder) followed, with a story about being “Politely Persistent,” and [...]
Be God-like? Really?
August 3, 2011Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children. Ephesians 5:1 Throughout the Bible, there is instruction and direction for people to become God-like. It can be pretty overwhelming to strive for what is seen as pure, sinless, perfect. Me? Be like God? Really? This past week, my husband and I visited a newly rebuilt local church. [...]
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July 20, 2011Fostering A Culture of Dissent In our office, Kouzes & Posner’s The Leadership Challenge is the basis of our leadership model; a set of expected leadership behaviors and attitudes across all employees of the company. Today’s link is to an interview that reminds me of the importance of fostering an environment where “challenging the process” is not only [...]
Tuesday Tidbit
July 19, 2011Love, love, love this quote! A blogger friend of mine, Darren Sproat, shared this quote last week in one of his posts; I immediately knew I had to share it with my team. One more reason why it’s important to Challenge the Process! When we share the richness of our ideas with each other, we [...]
Tuesday Tidbit
July 12, 2011Since I kicked off my “summer tour” yesterday, (Monday afternoon side-by-sides in each of my departments), it seems appropriate to share some quotes about observation. A few observations and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth. – Alexis Carrel All ideas come about through some sort of observation. – [...]
What possibilities are being created in you?
July 9, 2011Today. This moment. You are filled with possibilities. Are you paying attention to them? I am honored to be published once again on Geoff Talbot‘s creative expression blog, Seven Sentences. I invite you to read my post, “What Possibilities Are Being Created In You?” and comment on Geoff’s site. I hope that you are always being fully [...]
The text of the Declaration of Independence
July 4, 2011IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which [...]
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