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We Commit to Continuous and Active Un-Learning…
Many of the skills necessary for unlearning racist structures are the same ones that are necessary for having courageous conversations at home. It means lowering our defenses to listen to hard truths, empathetic listening, and acting from a place of compassion.
It’s Always About Relationship
Following on his last blog about ‘Being Your Best’, Duane delves into the “relational” quality that is essential to any and all evolutionary growth.
Step In. Stay In.
Duane elucidates the very personal and very subtle internal journey involved in choosing to be our best in every moment.
Being At Your Best
Catherine examines what it means to truly be at our best after having just won the WOW Leader of the Year for 2019.
Face Yourself First – Part 3
In part 3, Catherine wraps up this story with a discussion about strategies, including how some strategies can create the very situations we try to avoid. The cry of the overfunctioner is ‘I give and and give, why…
Face Yourself First – Part 2
Continuing… When I was young, I found my refuge in books. I read between the lines of Snow White, Cinderella and later Harlequin: I do not feel good enough, but ‘someday my Prince will come’. I will find ‘the one’, my ‘soulmate’.
Face Yourself First – Part 1
I was one of those little girls who was always on the outside of the group. Through careful study and imitation of the group I could work my way ‘in’, but then I would say or do something that would put me right back on the outside again…
Vulnerable Leadership in the Workplace – Part 2
The prerequisites for vulnerable leadership start with intention – the intention to have a positive relationship. The next steps, as well as skills #4 and #5, can help you assess your own leadership skills and, if needed, plot a course…
Vulnerable Leadership in the Workplace – Part 1
Most workplace problems are relational problems, and are at the root of staff morale issues, absenteeism, and low productivity. We want to feel passionate about our work, because we recognize how much time and energy we will spend in the workplace. However…