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Turning Potential Into Results
Use your anger to recover yourself.
My commitment is to encourage you to lead, yourself and others, by discovering, developing, and being yourself. Inviting you to see the movie “Women Talking” coupled with sharing Sonya Chemaly’s well-researched, conscious-raising Rage Becomes Her: The power of women’s anger does that in spades for me. Take 5 minutes to hear Chemaly speak about women’s…
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Heal to Move On
IF, THEN IF saying “Let’s move on” means “get over it, forget about it, let bygones be bygones,” THEN we’re also saying, “Give up. We can’t deal with it.” IF saying “Let’s move on” means “go forth without regret or thwarted expectations, and with a clear conscience and our integrity intact,” THEN we’re also…
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Conflict: A bug or a feature?
There’s an assumption that conflict always involves anger and is always negative. That friction – opposing views, misunderstandings, differences of opinion – between people is to be avoided at all costs. The trouble is that avoiding friction in our relationships is not cost-free. Avoiding friction often erodes and diminishes the very relationship that we seek…
Read MoreStop Putting up with the Glare
Client story: An employee wanted to move to another workspace because the extreme glare on her desk made it hard for her to work. She was convinced that the glare was coming from a newly painted office building outside her window. To try and solve the problem herself, she put a row of plants on…
Read MoreNeeded: (Kind) Back Seat Drivers
Two weeks ago, I was tired (more like, fried) from a 12-hour international flight, returning from a dream vacation sailing in the Mediterranean. We climbed into a taxi and headed out of SFO. I gave the driver the address where we parked our car in San Carlos. On the ramp, heading south on 101, the…
Read MoreThe Question Determines the Answer
The popular phrase “What’s wrong with this picture?” doesn’t always help us to get things “right.” Things don’t always go as planned. We run out of gas. Miss our daughter’s play. Miss a connecting flight. Get laid off. Have cold lunchmeat for Thanksgiving because the power went out before the bird cooked. When something happens…
Read MoreThey’re coming! Whoa..They’re here!
The Holidays. Family gatherings. Gift giving. Travel. Perhaps just reading these words stresses you out a little. If I added “The Mall” to the list, I’m betting “a little” might be replaced by “a lot”! Regardless of what this season means to you, whether you are looking forward to it or pulling up the cushions…
Read MoreIntroverts Unite! (oh, might be tough…)
Hi, I’m Camille and I’m an extrovert. I confess that from time to time I’ve overlooked the talents that introverts have to offer. I’m reforming. On a recent flight home from Ohio, I read Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain. I picked it up because in…
Read MoreWhat’s Your Beef?
Remember Wendy’s 2006 commercial with the old lady complaining about the patty size with the slogan “Where’s the beef?”? Complaining is often a way we identify our disatisfactions and things we want to change. On the other hand, if we don’t know we are complaining, it can adversely affect our performance, putting us in a…
Read MoreHow to Reach Metaphorical Mountain Tops at Work
Today’s workers are being asked to do more with less, to reach higher goals with fewer resources and in less time. You understand the need, you want to say “yes” and mean it, but you say “yes” with uncertainty and doubt. What’s going on? How come you can’t authentically say yes to climb the mountains…
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