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Harmonizing Leadership: Eastern Wisdom; Western Results

Described as an intellectual and physical feast of learning, Harmonizing Leadership is a unique leadership approach and style from a 2,500 year-old oriental philosophy. Through one- to three-day Harmonizing Leadership workshops, you will take your organization to places it has never been before and discover your own intellectual, emotional and physical balance points. Dr. Thomas Krapu, who created Harmonizing Leadership, has extensive experience and a proven background in leadership workshop practices. Tom combines ancient eastern philosophies such as T'ai Chi Chuan and Taoism for the quintessential retreat that will impact your leadership style, your business and your life.

Informing not Hoarding

April 27th, 2017

Informing not Hoarding

Lominger has a competency named Informing (ref). This competency is about how we share information and the impact that that has through our work.

Many of us take this impact for granted and aren’t as intentional or as fully impactful as we could be in this area. The subject of this blog entry is how to become more powerful in how you inform others at work.

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Creating a Feedback Culture: Stop, Start and Continue

October 11th, 2016

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Feedback is the life blood of high functioning organizations, hence the popularity of 360 methods for creating feedback loops within the organization.

But formalized 360 methods are not the only way to create feedback loops.

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Allowing Tension in Giving Feedback and Holding Others Accountable

July 18th, 2014

One of the most universal challenges that I experience with leaders is how challenging it is to have “crucial conversations”. Many people avoid conflict and dislike it when they are in conflict situations. This can make it very difficult to face situations where the conflict arises through their own action, for instance, when your responsibility requires that you hold someone accountable. As one of my executive coaching clients stated, “This has always been the thing I hate the most about my job. I have learned to do it because I had to, but I still hate doing it.” What might be surprising is that this client has worked in crisis situations in relation to his work that were full of tension, even where life and death were at stake, but giving difficult feedback is still felt to be the hardest part of their job!

A few “hints” that might help you in this area: (more…)

intuition

August 29th, 2011

Intuition is an easily misunderstood concept. Often dismissed as “woo woo” in the past, there is good evidence and a body of literature that now legitimizes intuition as an important executive and coaching skill. In fact the article cited below says that:

“intuitive intelligence” (Sadler-Smith and Shefy, 2010) … may sit comfortably alongside EI. (Emotional Intelligence)” (more…)