Do you work to work or seek to daily create change? Driving evolution is what we need to do today and everyday with an eye to the future needs of our clients. When we stay put attending to today’s needs, we don’t see a ripple, just pain and dissatisfaction. Create a ripple from within the […]
We are meant to use trial and error to answer the big obstacles we face in life. Do you hesitate to put yourself at risk or are you open to learning by doing? No forward movement in your life can happen without digging for gold nuggets and understanding why it exists in that place. Then […]
The hardest barrier we have to leap is us. What I found is that we struggle personally and in the workplace with identifying what we want to be; what is our career going to look like. We tend not to look inside and find who we already are. There may be items to push away, […]
We no longer can afford to allow our imperfections to hold us up. We need to leverage our current level of imprecise imperfection, bring in others as the job is to big for one, and lead a collaboration revolution to success. An early step is to truly understand ourselves on who we are->get quiet, instruct […]
We have a ring around us that has been called our personal space. Others might enter at great risk. Our body language may tell them to back away. We need to let them into our space if we are desiring to accomplish great things. Open up your space to fill the room. You might find […]
We as a human have integrated this immediate tensing of our body when someone comes near us. Expand your space by visualizing something that makes you smile. You might just welcome a person who your key to get to the epic dream you have. Visit: http://freshstart1.eventbee.com to gain the inspiration you need to bring to […]
Sometimes we are a full-sized brand new crayon; other times we might be feeling a little less, like our crayon tip is broken off. The crayon is still usable and valuable to the total picture. Teams sometimes are a box of broken crayons. We need to embrace each other and realize the value that we […]
When you look at your social and emotional strengths, what do you desire to do in your time on this rotating orb? Where is it that you want to make a difference. APEX leaders do sit around waiting for the right time or the right thing to make them go. Where, when, what, why and […]
Quick to make an opinion. Quick to build barriers. Quick to protest. Quick to say someone is different. It may take a long time to do the things to make forward progress. Trust takes time to buy another’s product or service. Relationships take time. Achieving goals takes time. Where is the speed? We can change […]
We treat others in the first 30 seconds or less to an assessment of what we see and hear. We instruct our subconscious minds with the results to bring up with each encounter with that person. Our mind can only handle positive or negative assessments. If you see a person uniquely amazing, each encounter will […]
Whatever the moment we find ourselves in that is out of the norm, we do something that threatens to send us down a path. We hunker down. We allow FEAR to exist, to control us. FEAR is part of the equation as much as LOVE is. There are 63 characters that keep us where we […]
Courage is defined as mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty. We sometimes need to dig down deep. I know that you have it within you. The test is sometimes worse than the subject. It is within these tests that we find ourselves. It sounds easy like you can […]
We have seen people either take their eyes off the present or off the future. As a result they fail when one of those have a setback. Either the team or the company fails on its current goals and as a result its mission, or it fails in the future to take the steps necessary […]
When the distortions, the infighting, chaos, stuff hits the fan, happen at work, what returns the team to path ahead.Joe Dutkiewicz, founder and chief thought partner at Crayon Leadership, discusses how to take advantage of Thinking Blind to remove those distortions and forge forward. What do our teams do? When something happens what is the […]
Many obstacles may get in the way of the team reaching the performance they need to achieve the established goals to fulfill the business vision. Leaders think into the environment and become blind to the distortions of the egos in the room, biases aired, filters engaged to determine the path forward for the team to […]
