What is a leader’s greatest asset: existing knowledge or their ability to learn?
Ignorance and arrogance are a bad combination. Without the ability to learn and apply the learning business leaders are at best likely to repeat the status quo.
Michael Calzonetti
Your Boss’s EQ can Impact Employee Mental Health
The emotional and financial costs of mental health issues in the workplace and employee disengagement far outweigh the costs of training your leader-coaches to be better listeners, communicators and have more empathy.
Hate Cannot Ever Be Allowed to use Love to Spread Hate
We cannot allow racism, injustice and oppression or the symbols of the same to erroneously and insidiously misuse freedom and civil liberty to spread, inflict or perpetuate the total opposite of freedom and civil liberty. All symbols and practices that…
It’s OK to Talk About Your Mental Health Issues
“Real men” and good leaders include those with mental health issues. True courage and strength is talking about your struggles and fears openly with others, not in keeping them to yourself and pretending they don’t exist.
Understanding Our Unconscious Patterns and Our Fight and Flight Response
Sometimes feelings of being less than can take root in our psyche. In turn maladaptive behaviors driven by unconscious fears and an irrational need to control the external for ego survival can dominate our thoughts and behaviors. At home or at work.
Ultra Independence is not a Strength, it is a Trauma Response
Connection and relationship at home or at work require a mix of 3 factors: Independence, Interdependence and Dependence. One of these may be front and center at any given time. An ebb and flow based on situation and choice.
Leading at Home or at Work: Empathy is Not Enough
Coaching, parenting, leadership at all levels etc. require an ability to connect, to care about, relate to and sometimes care “for” another person. Important in all this is understanding 3 integral words: sympathy, empathy and compassion.