Sweaty palms. A million butterflies tossing around in your stomach, threatening to escape out of your mouth. Your tongue feels like it's wearing a sweater made of sandpaper. Your voice is wavery and quavery. And most of all a looming sense of dread, with a … [Read more...] about Unlock Your Voice: Strategies for Powerful Public Speaking
Snappy, surly comebacks. Aggressive comments. Defensive droning on and on. You’ve heard them all (and, ahem, maybe have dished out a few too) Ever felt like your emotions are calling the shots more than you'd like? Not being emotionally savvy can … [Read more...] about Learning and Development Roundtable: Unlock Your Emotional Intelligence with These Epic EI Fundamentals
I have two simple tasks for you. Can you tell what made the difference? I can 99.99% guarantee that it was a lack of critical character skills or things that make us good humans. Take conflict for example. Have you ever paused to think about the cost of conflict in … [Read more...] about Learning and Development Roundtable: Critical character skills (or how to be a good human)
Fake news. Ridiculous claims that over time and with enough repetition can start to seem reasonable. Decision fatigue. Pressures to do more by yesterday and at an ever-increasing pace. Sound familiar? We make 266 decisions a day ….. Just on food (Source: Cheryl … [Read more...] about Learning and Development Roundtable: The Critical Benefits of Critical Thinking and How to Do It
Did you catch last week’s part one post where I shared half of my favorite reads from 2023? If not, you can catch up here. I wrote about books related to Learning and Development and DEI. This week I continue with my favorite books from last year on personal development, health and wellness, … [Read more...] about Have you read any of these, my top favorite reads from 2023? Part two
Another year of learning, laughing, and leading has passed and with it, I’ve curated my favorite reads from 2023. This is a ritual of mine, to share my favorite books with you. I’ve done so since 2018. Books are a key part of my learning. Since I was a kid I’ve escaped into worlds … [Read more...] about Have you read any of these, my top favorite reads from 2023? Part one
If you’re a regular reader you’ll know that I love a year (or more) long project. There’s something about the routine and ritual of having a project spread out over a year. In 2020 and 2021 I focused on clutter and got rid of three things every day for two … [Read more...] about Announcing my new, year-long anti-racism project (join me won’t you?!)
Is your motivation lagging and sagging? Do you feel perpetually behind, juggling a million plates in the air? So much so that you feel defeated before you even start? Does the idea of building good habits sound appealing, in part to address your motivation, but you haven’t a hot clue … [Read more...] about Learning and Development Roundtable: Getting motivated and building healthy habits (especially if you’re lagging and sagging)
As I said in part 1, in 2021, my annual project was clutter. As in getting rid of it. And last year and the year before it was gratitude. Here’s the backstory. In 2021 I decided to take on a year-long experiment. I decided to de-clutter big-time. Did I manage to do … [Read more...] about What I learned from two whole years of sending weekly gratitude cards, Part 2
In 2021 I decided to take on a relatively simple year-long project. Something that I could dedicate a short amount of time to and do it regularly throughout the whole year. In 2021 I decided to get rid of three things every day. Yep. Every day I ditched at least three items of … [Read more...] about What I learned from a whole year of sending gratitude cards to folks, Part 1
Information is flowing faster than ever. We are walking and talking faster than a decade ago. We’re inundated with platforms, blogs, websites, tweets, LinkedIn posts, Youtube videos, online courses, etc., etc. But who has time for learning? The better question is ‘who … [Read more...] about Learning and Development Roundtable- Design a customized learning plan for 2024 that fits you and your team to a T and increases your ROI
For eleven sweet years, I’ve been convening folks from around the world, for a free, monthly Learning and Development Roundtable workshop on a range of interesting and engaging topics that members have asked for. Our community is a global group of diverse, social change-makers, who are committed … [Read more...] about That’s a wrap for 2023 – Highlights of the year’s Learning and Development Roundtables Part Two
The trick is for the (scissor) blades to learn to work smoothly together, so as not to cut each other.
— Mary Jo Putney
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
— Amelia Earhart
There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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