February 18th, 2021
Leadership Training Blog
January 12th, 2021
“Okay, You’re the Boss.”
(from the L.E.T. book) What power does to leaders who use it is a topic seldom discussed in books and […]
December 17th, 2020
Love to Listen, But I CAN’T EVEN: What to Do in Case of Emotional Flooding
You know what you should be doing. You know, somewhere deep in the recesses of your logical, operational brain (which […]
November 12th, 2020
What’s the Most Effective Way to Confront Someone?
First, determine if what the other person is doing or saying is interfering with your ability to meet a concrete […]
October 27th, 2020
What Do You Do When Someone Uses Power Over You?
When coercive power is used on us to change our behavior, we immediately adopt one of these three possible responses: […]
September 23rd, 2020
Isn’t Active Listening Just Another Way to Manipulate People?
First, let’s define Active Listening. Active Listening is a special way of feeding back your understanding of what the other […]
August 6th, 2020
“But I Was Just Trying To Help…”
Throughout our lives, we have learned a variety of ways to help other people when they have strong feelings, thoughts […]
June 10th, 2020
How to Say No with Respect for Yourself and Others
You may know that one of the essential skills we teach in our programs is the I-Message. And there are […]
May 13th, 2020
How Active Listening Helped Me Get “Unstuck”
I am an anxious person by nature, a germaphobe stuck in a consistent state of nervousness. In late February, as […]
April 21st, 2020