Month: January 2020

The best opportunity for dealing with resistance is for leaders to reason with the resistors. Bargaining, manipulating, using power, and ignoring are not only ineffective strategies, they can actually make resistance worse in that resistors may step up their resistance, go underground, or go guerilla by spreading rumors, undermining efforts, and engaging in subtle sabotage.…

Those who can tell stories can change the way their listeners view the world. In the process, they can also change the way they view the world. In Telling the Story, Geoff Mead defines narrative leadership as something that goes beyond increasing profits, market share, and share holder value. Rather, it is about understanding the…

Coaching conversations necessitate planning, and the most effective way to do so is to use F.U.E.L., which stands for: Frame the conversation. Understand the current state. Explore the desired state. Lay out a success plan. F.U.E.L. is an easy-to-follow outline that helps guide leaders through the practice of coaching. It is not a cage but…

Happy New Year to all 2020! We make resolution every year and most important is how to make as a part of our Habit. The brain’s prefrontal cortex is the home of critical thinking skills, also known as higher-order thinking. Deeper inside the brain are the more primitive structures that are responsible for automatic functions…