My Gratitude Project 2024
Welcome to My Gratitude Project 2024 where I am celebrating the small things I’m grateful for every day in November. Nov. 2 Every year in November, I practice 30 days of gratitude.* Taking time to be grateful about what is going right grounds me and helps me focus on what I want more of in […]
5 Tips for Better Leadership with Emotional Intelligence
If you want to increase your emotional intelligence, try these 5 tips for improving team performance. What most people want to know is how does emotional intelligence make people more successful, and more to the point, how can you raise the EQ of yourself or your team. There are a lot of things you can […]
What is Psychological Safety at Work and How Does it Improve Performance?
Psychological safety at work helps teams catch and correct mistakes—without blame, shame, or retaliation. Key Takeaways Psychological safety at work is the key to an office culture where everyone brings their best game every day. Let’s start with a definition. Psychological safety at work is the assurance that you will not be retaliated against or […]
Five Tips for High-Stakes Deals Demonstrated by Evan Gershkovitz’s Fierce Mother
The historic prisoner swap offers a case study in what it takes to succeed at making complex, high-stakes deals. For most businesses, high-stakes deals involve not lives but livelihoods, affecting dozens or even hundreds of individuals. Negotiations are often fierce. Looking at the prisoner swap completed on Aug. 1, 2024 in hindsight, there are a […]
How to Double Team Results: Boost Trust Like this Manager Did
Without the advantage of trust, the smartest, most experienced team will become distracted by conflict and division. You need it to inspire your team, find consensus, and bring out everyone’s best efforts.
Delegate Responsibility, Not Tasks
My new blog in Forbes offers two great tips to help you delegate responsibility for better results. When people don’t know how to delegate effectively, a lot of problems can happen. Often, managers who aren’t sure how to do it just take on the work themselves. That can lead to burn out. Others try to […]
Build Better Relationships with Emotional Intelligence
Building better relationships is a skill we all need for success at work and in life. Some people are simply better at building better relationships than others. If your team lacks cohesion and members tend to remain siloed or in conflict, good news! We can all learn to become better at building mutually satisfying and […]
Dialing Emotional Independence in Just Right
Emotional independence works best when you’re not too high or too low in independence, but find a mid-point that’s just right. To maintain good relationships–important for happiness at work and in life–it’s best not to be too aggressive or too weak. The best relationships are built on being able to keep communication lines open respectfully […]
My Gratitude Project 2023
Every year in November, I dedicate myself to 30 days of gratitude. Read all my posts here. Nov. 1: Honestly, I need gratitude more than ever this year. I can hardly express the unspeakable sadness I have experienced recently. I see fear and anxiety from conflict and violence writ large across the globe. Every day […]