Working in teams can be tough, which may be the very reason for the popularity of reality TV shows. “Did you see what he did when she did X and how they responded?!”It can feel like there are multiple thick, messy blocks between your team's intentions and your results.We’re … [Read more...] about Learning and Development Roundtable: Working with all kinds of people (yes, even the difficult ones): Simple skills for real-world teams
We all know that working together, solving problems innovatively and experiential learning is fun and rewarding for any organization, but have we realized that playing games and using our hands when building pathways, structures, and solutions will create better end products and services? That … [Read more...] about Get with the game, the Makusudi/Purpose game
“Twelve months of guided simplicity.”The title caught my attention.Sign me up!Enter joy, ease and sinking into simplicity. I’m a few months into the Simple Year program now and it’s remarkable in its, well, simplicity and powerfulness.Big change sometimes comes from big … [Read more...] about Here’s how: ease and elegance in simplicity
When I started my business in 1998 people were still running to Blockbuster to rent VHS videos (I know, right!) and Britney Spears had just released her debut single “Baby One More Time.” I’m wrapping up a month of celebrating 20 years with 20 business lessons learned from the last 2 decades of … [Read more...] about 20,000 people. 20 years. 20 business lessons. What I’ve learned over the last 2 decades of running RPS
Have you been affected by the talent gap? Good people are hard to find & ever increasingly so. Plus the hiring process is time consuming, difficult & comes with big stakes.What do you look for? What has to come part & parcel with the staff? What can be taught? What’s … [Read more...] about How to stem the talent gap & stop fighting fires with these 3 simple steps
Warning: this post is a little graphic. I decided to run it because I originally received the joke from my mum-in-law. I figured if she found it funny you may too. Two young boys walked into a pharmacy one day, picked out a box of tampons and preceded to the checkout counter. The man at the counter … [Read more...] about He ain't heavy, he's my (misinformed) brother – how a little information can go a wrong way
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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