Posts Tagged ‘teamwork’
“Nobody Achieves Anything Alone” – The Power of Teamwork and Gratitude
“Many times a day I realise how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labours of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.” – Albert Einstein This quote from Albert Einstein calls…
Read MoreWhen Soft Skills Become REAL Skills
All human beings have similar wants and needs. We want honesty, respect, integrity, and trust. We want to belong to something bigger than ourselves and to matter. The current state of global affairs and their effect on every level of our lives has exacerbated these needs, highlighting their deficit in our personal and professional lives. When we…
Read MoreHow Responsible Is TOO Responsible?
Responsibility is a spectrum – meaning there’s a line ranging from completely irresponsible all the way to destructive over-responsibility… and all of us are on it somewhere. We all know that personal responsibility is something we start to learn early in life – brush your teeth, make your bed, represent yourself well, be nice to…
Read MoreThe Strength In Our Differences
It’s part of our survival instinct as human beings to look for threats and defend ourselves against them. Once upon a time, the part of our brain responsible for reacting to threats would have been on the alert for a sabre-toothed tiger. Today, the same part of our brain responsible for our survival instincts still…
Read MoreHow Are You?
It’s a question we ask each other in greeting, and one that we regularly throw out various programmed responses to. “Fine, thanks, and how are you?”, we bat in return; “I’m great, thank you, and you?”, we bubble. But the question is more than a greeting – it’s checking in. The essence of it is…
Read MoreThe Generational Gap – Making It Work!
Over the last two weeks, we’ve been talking about the Generational Gap in the workplace and the differences that can put us at odds. Every one of us comes at life from our own unique perspective constructed from our life experiences, belief systems and upbringing, and this is starkly evident in our current workplaces. For…
Read MoreHow Responsible is Too Responsible?
Responsibility is a spectrum – meaning there’s a line ranging from completely irresponsible all the way to destructive over-responsibility… and all of us are on it somewhere. We all know that personal responsibility is something we start to learn early in life – brush your teeth, make your bed, represent yourself well, be nice to…
Read MoreThe Courage To Ask Relationship-Building Questions
In the last article, I spoke about Ego (the monkey on our shoulder) and how its quest to protect us prevents us from being able to team up well with other people. Today, I’d like to talk about overcoming that, and finding the courage to ask relationship-building questions. Relationship-building questions are those that invite the…
Read MoreThe Vulnerability of Strong Leadership
Mother Teresa said “Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.” Leadership requires some fairly strong stuff from us, regardless of our level or named position. Whether you lead a family, whether you lead a team, whether you lead a business, whether you lead a country – honesty and transparency are vital.…
Read MoreReinforce your relationships!
I attended an awesome talk this morning given by Andrew and Sarah Shoesmith from Peterhouse on the importance of outdoors experiences on our children’s development. They spoke about the character traits that these experiences inspire in our children – trustworthiness, fortitude, temperance, respect, grit, empathy and the like. Traits that are more and more lacking…
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