Empowering Leadership and Music Articles
Each article uses our empower framework that we also use for our leadership coaching services.
Healing execution…
Something that gets executed along with music is dancing. And generally speaking, that involves someone of the opposite sex, which somewhere in Junior High start to appear -...
The Healing of wonder…
We moved to Florida when IBM started a facility there. Dad’s career needed a rotation through a “development lab” where he would understand what is involved in designing...
How does observing Heal?
One universal comment from people of my generation about the current times is “Thank GOODNESS there is no video to observe what we did in our youth”. As I start each week, after...
Healing partners
The first song that came on when I requested The Partridge Family is today’s offering, I’ll Meet You Halfway – perfect for the partner discussion. So exactly what does that really mean? When I was researching the song, various negotiation websites returned definitions of “halfway”, most of which made the point that it is rarely half of anything in a transaction. Actually, “partner” has the same fate – everyone thinks they know what it means, but it is rarely a common definition…
managing Healing
We moved to Florida when I was 10, halfway through 6th grade. Younger than my peers by at least a year, small to begin with, from Texas, I didn’t fit in on many levels. The...
Can Healing engage?
One thing I noticed last year was how the choice of music affected my mood. It always recharges me, but some music does that in different ways. That led me to intentionally...
The renewing concept of Goals…
Wrapping up my current project, I am writing a paper to tie the software/hardware purchased back to what the organization was trying to do. Computer systems and software can do...
Could you execute these Goals?
Goals are simply statements... until they are executed, measured, and then revised. If you follow the state of the art in project management, that cycle has gotten shorter and...
wondering Goals…
It’s Kickoff season in most businesses, where Goals for this year are described in big meetings with lots of hurrahs and fanfare. In well-managed businesses, last year’s Goals...
A Goal to observe…
I started this blog to explicitly keep me from writing and commenting about politics, and I don’t plan to start now... other than to point out the songs for this week, including...
What Goals do partners have?
While we were both enjoying our classic cars, the business itself was in a tailspin. The CEO had decided that the cash cow product line needed to be rewritten in the new...
How Goals manage…
At the end of the day, Goals are made for management. This is why I find it fascinating that so few managers actually use them in a consistent way - for the teams or more...
So…will your Goals engage?
Welcome to the official start of 2021! This Monday is the first of many days that stand out on the calendar every year, and are circled with a unique energy. Hopefully, you got...
The renewal of Retrospectives…
Preparing to renew...Living in the DC area, we always had a snow/ice storm sometime in December. Set up to “work-from-home” since 1992, I stayed home and wrote reviews all...
executing Retrospectively..
After 2020...I wonder what “20/20 Hindsight” means now… or 20/20 vision. With that "amazing" year firmly in the rearview mirror, Retrospectives are popping up all over the...
Retrospective wonder…
Where is your wonder?Something that we collectively lose track of as we get older is our ability to tune into our own inherent creativity. I am reminded of that with my...
observing Retrospectively…
Believing what you observe... Retrospectives are, at their heart, all about observation. It is taking time to look at what happened... compared to what you thought would happen,...
Who partners with your Retrospective?
Energy partners...As an extrovert, much of my energy comes from interacting with others. My wife is an introvert… so the rhythm of my being gone for a few days worked well...
managing your Retro-perspective
manage to Celebrate?Leadership books are always a hot topic with Coaches, and in a recent inquiry, many were bantering about this or that book that has some new insight or...
Retrospective to engage…
Particularly In 2020 - and every year-end...This week will end with probably the most anticipated change in numbers - ever. Rolling from 2020 to 2021, there will be a collective...