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Dispelling the Myths About Employee Engagement: Focusing on What Matters

People-Whispering Tip “Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.”  ~ Kahlil Gibran “The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.”  ~ Travis Walton “Constant development is the law … Read more

How to Bridge the “Passion Deficit”

People-Whispering Tip “I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.”  ~ George Burns “The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else.  The driving force of a career must come from the individual.  Remember: Jobs are owned by the … Read more

Becoming a Self-Reflective Leader

People-Whispering Tip: “The unexamined life is not worth living.” ~ Socrates “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” ~ Blaise Pascal “Look within!…The secret is inside you.” ~ William Shakespeare “Seeing within changes one’s outer vision.” ~ Joseph Chilton Pearce Becoming a Self-Reflective Leader During this holiday … Read more

How Inclusion Creates an Engaged Culture

People-Whispering Tip: “No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.”  ~ Mohandas Gandhi “I want to appreciate you without judging. Join you without invading. Invite you without demanding.  Leave you without guilt.”  ~ Virginia Satir “To say ‘we’ and mean ‘I’ is one of the most recondite insults.” ~ Theodor Adorno What We Can … Read more

Why Won’t People Be Accountable?

People-Whispering Tip: “The job of managers is not to know everything and decide everything but rather to create an environment in which there are a lot of people who both know and do.” ~ Jeff Pfeffer & Robert Sutton “The greatest problem with communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished.” ~ George Bernard … Read more

Struggling to Get Started and Get Things Done?

People-Whispering Tip: “When you reframe problems as projects or opportunities, they will cease to bother you and will begin to stimulate you.”  ~ Alan Cohen “How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.” ~ Anonymous “If you wish to drown, don’t torture yourself with shallow water.” ~ Bulgarian Proverb   3 Keys … Read more

Influence WIthout Authority

One of the misconceptions people often harbor about leadership is that it implies positional authority. While tacit authority certainly helps, it is even more important to be able to “influence without authority.” At a recent workshop, the participants were a selective crop of the “best and the brightest” relatively newly hired “high potentials.” As is … Read more

Changing Habits Changes Culture

People-Whispering Tip: Changing Habits Changes Culture DiSC Assessment Application: The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team, Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team Product Briefings Across the Country, and The Work of Leaders Book Transformational Coaching Tip: Tips for Championing Execution Through Feedback People Whispering Tips:   “Habit is habit and not to be flung out … Read more

Patrick Lencioni’s Antidote for a Dysfunctional Team

People-Whispering Tip: Antidotes for the Five Team Dysfunctions DiSC Assessment Application:  The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team, Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team Product Briefings Across the Country, Everything DiSC Virtual Certification, and The Work of Leaders Book Transformational Coaching Tip: Tips for Championing Execution Through Structure People-Whispering Tip: “The antidotes for worry are gratitude, action, and … Read more

The Key to Culture Change

People-Whispering Tip: Not All Trust is Created Equal DiSC Assessment Application:  The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team, Complimentary Discovery Conversations, Everything DiSC Virtual Certification, and The Work of Leaders Book Transformational Coaching Tip: Tips for Championing Execution Through Momentum People-Whispering Tip: “Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.” James Broughton “Trust is a great force multiplier.” … Read more