One of the biggest complaints against the Millennial generation is they do whatever thing we ask them, but then they come back to us and ask for their next assignment. If we tell them to go do A, we expect them to do B, C and D without needing us to tell them it needs […]
People often ask me what are the benefit of doing a team building or communication style training and which tools would I recommend. Here are my thoughts on both of those questions as you think about ways to strengthen your team in the coming year. First, what are the benefits of doing a teambuilding or […]
This is the time of year when all the New Year’s Resolutions and intents drop off our radar. It’s when we revert to the norm. We struggle to have energy and motivation to keep something new moving forward. In the book, The Road to Character by David Brooks, he writes about the need to push […]
Last week I wrote about the gift of failure and how we can help retain Millennials by showing them the benefits of failure and by showing them how to work through failure. This week, I’m going to share a recent failure of mine and how it helped me, and how it can help younger folks […]
There’s been a lot of buzz around Simon Sinek’s Millennials in the Workplace video this week. He talked about Millennials and hit on one of the key things we work with leaders on – why Millennials leave companies, and how you can help retain them by teaching them the gift of failure. First, let’s define […]
As holiday letters are pouring into our mailbox (thank you – it’s nice to get something besides bills and junk mail), I’m reminded of the “Christmas-letter effect.” You know what the Christmas-letter effect looks like – the amazing letter that tells you all the good things that happened to someone’s family over the year, but […]
“I’m so sick of this topic! Why are we still talking about Millennials?” Well, we’re still talking about Millennials because according to a recent Forbes article, Workforce 2020: What You Need To Know Now, Millennials will comprise almost 75 percent of our workforce by 2025. 75 percent! There are a couple of reasons folks are […]
My morning started with an amazingly kind email from a client saying, “…it is not a secret both at work and in my family that for me your name is linked to a positive turning point and basically your name is connected with joy.” What a delightful gift it was to open this message on […]
“I thought we made a decision about this, but here we are in the same meeting, deciding the same thing again two weeks later! Why?!” If you’ve ever thought this, you aren’t alone. Most of us have been part of teams or organizations where you feel like you simply spin your wheels and never move […]
This week I taught a class on Having a Heart of Hospitality at our church. The focus was on getting past the things that make it hard for us to be welcoming or that keep us from inviting people to be part of our lives. One of the activities was based on two table settings […]
