by tgale | Jul 16, 2012 | Blog, Enneagram, Leadership Development, Monday Morning Wake Up Tips
“Challenge is the core and the mainspring of all human activity. If there’s an ocean, we cross it; if there’s a disease, we cure it; if there’s a wrong, we right it; if there’s a record, we break it; and finally, if there’s a...
by tgale | Jul 9, 2012 | Blog, Leadership Development, Monday Morning Wake Up Tips, Personal Development
In a recent blog for Harvard Business Review, Ram Charan, author of The Leadership Pipeline, writes about The Discipline of Listening. He says “for leaders, listening is a central competence for success.” In his work with business leaders he says that 360-degree...
by tgale | Jun 18, 2012 | Blog, Leadership Development, Monday Morning Wake Up Tips, Personal Development
In his book, The Leadership Dojo: Build Your Foundation as an Exemplary Leader, by Richard Strozzi-Heckler, he states “If we want to introduce new leadership behaviors in our lives, it is necessary to practice. We also know that to achieve mastery it is...
by tgale | Jun 11, 2012 | Leadership Development, Monday Morning Wake Up Tips, Personal Development
Who isn’t time challenged these days? Who doesn’t want more hours in a day? Who among us ends each day with a completed “To-Do” list? For those who we work with, the new “normal” is having more work than time allows and an increased sense of overwhelm that often...
by tgale | May 21, 2012 | Blog, Leadership Development, Monday Morning Wake Up Tips
In a recent survey by Right Management, employees were asked “How often do you offer suggestions to your boss/manager at work?” The results reveal that: 54% More than 20 suggestions each year 24% Between 10 and 20 each year 15% Fewer than 10 each year 7%...
by tgale | May 2, 2012 | Blog, Leadership Development, Personal Development
Download a PDF of this article Old habits die hard, as the saying goes. And one habit that most of us share—and find difficult to both notice and shake—is our tendency to run “on automatic.” Unconscious patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving are often the silent...