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All Leaders Fart

(Yes this is includes you too ladies 😊) According to health professionals ā€œeveryone farts. Doctors say the average person farts anywhere from 5 to 15 times per day. Farting is a normalā€. Let’s not forget that leadership is a human experience. PS: pull my finger.
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Crying in the Rain

Crying in the Rain

Because of the work I do around emotional intelligence I often find there’s a misconception by others that I have all my shit together. That I am immune to emotional hijacking. And that just isn’t true. During a recent coaching conversation around managing emotions, I shared this personal example: It...
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I am Smartest When I am Dumb

I was coaching a mechanical engineer, our first two sessions were awful. Not because of him. He wanted coaching. They were awful because I thought I needed to be a mechanical engineer, I was trying to be smart in a subject I knew absolutely nothing about. After the second laboured...
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I Do Care What Other People Think of Me

I REALLY DO! There’s the old adage that you shouldn’t care what other people think of you. I say poppycock! I think this advice limits our growth, and does more damage then good. Have you ever noticed when this ā€œadviceā€ is given to you? It’s only when someone says something...
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How My Ego Got Me Fired

At a time when my client needed empathy and support, I choose to focus on BEING RIGHT, thus making him wrong. Ultimately I backed him into a corner leaving him only one option to regain his dignity: to fire me. Upon reflection: When I focus on BEING RIGHT, my attention...
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