By Andrew Sobel and Jerold Panas Some books I buy because they are recommended to me. Some because I have read the author before, or even know the author. Others I buy because I am interested in the topic specifically. This book falls into the latter category. In fact, I have been a long time […]
Six Commencement Challenges For Leaders Young and Old
The inspiration for this comes in celebration of my son Parker’s graduation from Ball State University this weekend. This is one of thousands of graduation exercises for high schools, colleges and universities that will take place across the country in the coming weeks. My focus is on six lessons new leaders will need to learn […]
Take These Four Leadership Leaps
In 1919, Leslie Irvin became the first person to jump out of an airplane with a parachute. Think about that leap – once you jump, you are completely committed. You can’t turn back, you are heading downward towards your target. Today I want to encourage you to take some leadership leaps – and while you […]
Stop, Listen and Lead.
There’s no controversy here: everyone knows that listening is important. In every training event I facilitate, conversation turns in one way or another to listening. We all realize it to be important because people are talking to us, and we need to understand the messages or information they are sharing with us. Beyond that, if […]
Using The Big Ears Approach to Listen Better Naturally!
Everyone has heard it – the old saying we have two ears and one mouth, and we should use them in that proportion . . . We’ve heard it, but we seldom take action on the idea. It isn’t really because we don’t know how to listen or even that we don’t understand the value […]
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