If you’ve ever struggled as a leader with how to meaningfully connect with your team members while staying focused on achieving your organization's goals, you’re not alone. The generative tension that exists between demonstrating care and concern for others and...
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Sharpening Soft Skills: Seven Human-Centered Approaches For Leaders
Originally published on Forbes.com December 2020 2020 was a year of unprecedented change, volatility, and unpredictability - a time when emotions ran high, an epidemic of workplace stress reached a tipping point, and employee burnout was at an all-time high. Nearly...
5 Fundamentals for Keeping Your Team Engaged and Productive
Let's face it. The last few months have been anything but normal. Leaders have made a rushed conversion to remote working teams and managed the complexities of overseeing newly distanced employees. And just as the routines of remote work started to stabilize,...
Best Practices for Leading Virtual Teams
Now that many of you are adapting to working from home and virtually managing team members has become a very necessary fact of life, we are offering some practical tips to lay the foundation for maintaining engaged, emotionally connected, and highly effective teams in...
On Leadership with Michelle Ledford
I recently facilitated an Advanced Management Training Workshop Series for the Lakeland Chamber of Commerce. As part of the series that covered topics such as communicating for impact and cultivating a strong leadership presence, Michelle Ledford joined us to share...
Leading Mindfully: A Chat with Andrea Oliver of Hall Communications
In April, I had the pleasure of stopping by the Hall Communications studio for a Polk County Today interview about mindful leadership with Andrea Oliver. Here are some highlights from that conversation: As I continue to practice and teach mindfulness explaining what...
Between Stimulus and Response, there is Conscious Choice
Today’s leaders are living in a world of constant stimuli – the ping from the email inbox, the beep of a calendar reminder, the constant stream of text messages, phone calls, meetings and interruptions. Each task begs for attention and it often seems as if the hours...
5 Communication Tips That Can Make Love Last Longer
In celebration of Valentine’s Day and in honor of all of the relationships we hold near and dear, I’m sharing some relationship wisdom with you that was written by my cousin, Michaela Tomberlin, a licensed psychotherapist. Many of you have heard me share how special...
Inner Game Focus Creates Outer Game Impact
When an Olympic athlete steps onto a field of play after years of rigorous training and refinement of their technical skills, it is their mindset– their inner game –that makes the difference between the glory of gold or the acceptance of silver. The ability of an...
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How Designing Alliances Will Cultivate Cohesive Teams
Every leader has been involved in spearheading a strategic initiative that has gotten off track. When this has happened to you, were you able to identify the cause of the setback and quickly get your team back on track? Perhaps there was some misalignment about...
How To Create Meaningful Connection
If you’ve ever struggled as a leader with how to meaningfully connect with your team members while staying focused on achieving your organization's goals, you’re not alone. The generative tension that exists between demonstrating care and concern for others and...
Kim Long – Seeking First to Understand
Kim Long as the Executive Director for Polk Vision, leads a county-wide collective impact organization dedicated to aligning resources across Polk County. Prior to her current position, Kim’s varied career spans the corporate, non-profit, and private sectors and she...