How Full is Your Bucket? – Book Summary
Rath and Clifton’s message is both timeless and practical: every interaction matters. We all have opportunities each day to fill or empty the buckets of those around us.
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How to Cultivate Emotionally Safe Spaces
How to Cultivate Emotionally Safe Spaces In recent years, conversations about emotionally safe spaces have increased in workplaces, schools, counselling settings, and communities. Yet emotional safety is more complex than simply declaring a room, meeting, or organization to be “safe.” Every person enters a room or space with unique experiences, memories, wounds, beliefs, and hopes. […]
Psychological Safety: Strategies to Thrive at Work and Home
“Lacking a sense of psychological safety, people shut down, often without realizing it. They are less likely to seek or accept feedback and also less likely to experiment, to discuss errors, and to speak up about potential or actual problems.” Christine Porath, professor, at Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina and author of Mastering […]
Take Care of Yourself in the Middle of the Blame Game
When I interviewed women for the book, From Woe to WOW: How Resilient Women Succeed at Work, a store cashier told me this story. She cried in her basement suite for a month after she was “accused of stealing when she did not even have training on how to manage the cash register.” She […]
People Boost: How to Encourage Others’ Personal Strengths
First help your staff or volunteers to discover their strengths. Strengths are talents, skills and knowledge that enable us to effectively complete certain activities.
High Performance Relationships by J. Peters – Book Summary
High Performance Relationships is a well-researched, practical, and helpful resource for those ready to mend, deepen, or enhance their relationships. Dr. Peters has systematized a lifetime of self-searching, research, academic work and leadership experience. She is thorough in ensuring her personal perspectives are in alignment with current research, drawing from the fields of communications, career […]
Stressed Workers and How to Manage Leadership Stress
In an interview with leadership coach, Gary Smith, we explored the commonly asked question, “How does stress affect leadership?” We discussed how to use stress in a positive way, how people’s ability to change varies, how personality preferences can cause misunderstanding, and how to support stressed workers. The leadership author, John C. Maxwell wrote: The […]
Book Review: From Woe to WOW by The Advocate
Patricia’s book encapsulates, in a manageable and organized manner, the lessons learned by many women since the advent of the Feminist Movement in the 1960’s
Exploration of Sex and Gender Differences
Women are still under-represented in all levels of government and in corporation boardrooms. At the same time, women are over-represented in family shelters.
Why Distressed Women Tend and Befriend
The research reported by Professor Shelley E. Taylor and her team at UCLA. In 1998 they began to wonder if women had different reactions to stress than males. By 2000 they reported a phenomenon they called Tend and Befriend.
You Can’t Be Serious: Putting Humor to Work – Book Summary
Not only is humor a key resilient strengthening tool it has become a hot topic in the world of employment.
Find Your Calling: Live Your Life Purpose
Wouldn’t you know it? As soon as I made the grand statement in the article Use Your Strengths that identifying your strengths is an “easy and meaningful way to feel on purpose,” O magazine of Oprah Winfrey’s empire publishes a feature called, Everyone Has a Calling. It leads with “There’s The Thing You Do For A Living—And Then There’s The Thing You Were Born To Do.”