Love Taking Meeting Notes? ME NEITHER!
Finally! A viable alternative to taking notes or wasting time with the replay…meet Nugget!
Serendipity and New Nuggets!
Serendipity is a chance for both gratitude and increased awareness
Confirmation Bias: Tuning Out the Truth
The horse, with blinders on – filters out any unnecessary information, and for us, inconvenient information that conflicts with what we want to keep intact for ourselves. I feel like I’m doing battle with my own biases all the time now, and the election season has made it particularly challenging. “When we would like a […]
Head, Hands or Heart? Your Listening Style determines what you Hear AND what you Decide….
There’s plenty out there on how to deliver our message for maximum impact – but we are all listeners too. How we listen, and the filters we use in listening can determine much about what we absorb, the nature of our relationships and the actions we ultimately decide to take in our lives, our businesses, our world. Here’s a chance to […]
“Blursday” – Another Sideswipe from Covid 19
Are all your days looking alike? Here’s a way to take charge of your calendar! A column in yesterday’s paper struck a chord with me right from the title “What Day is it? Welcome to Blursday” For too many of us, the days of the week are all starting to feel like Sunday. Which you would […]
It’s Official – We’re ZOOMED!
I’ve been on three Zoom calls today – which have taken up 2.5 hours of my time. My head hurts, my eyes feel fuzzy, and aside from status updates and content of one kind or another – what was accomplished? In-person meetings tend to energize me (mostly). Online meetings drain me. (almost completely) Why? Is […]
12 Rituals to Elevate Your Virtual Meeting
Are we sick and tired of Zoom yet? I sure don’t want to be because it’s here to stay and we’re all finding out how much time we save by not having to commute. Plus, many experts tell us that much of our educational and business systems are going to make heavier use of this […]
Five February Jumpstarts!
I suspect I am allergic to coffee. But I am in DEEP DENIAL. So don’t rave to me about your macha or your mushrooms or the latest miracle herb. I. Love. My. COFFEE. But it doesn’t love me anymore. Sneezing, teeth grinding, TMJ, anxiety… you get the picture. And now comes Michael Pollan’s new audio […]
Let’s Add Value over Noise in 2020…
New Year, New Decade, New opportunities for… let’s call them “Behavioral Upgrades”. Feels like a good time to ask “Am I adding value or just adding to the NOISE? “ We all have a driving need to be heard, connected, part of community of people who truly “see” us. But now everyone is screaming to […]
Your Workplace “Weather Report”
I first notice the contrast in light – dark blue mountains in the background as the storm clouds grumble away – slapped into retreat by strong western sunlight. And the lake is a blue expanse mirroring the mountains. The foreground is bathed in the textured gold of a dry autumn meadow. It’s the contrasts that […]