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Tag Archives: change
Big Changes in Egypt! What Do they mean for you?
No, I don’t mean the current political upheaval and mass protests there. That’s amazing and monumental and something major that is happening in the world we’re alive in. I’m thinking of something larger than that, something bigger picture than that. Imagine the Egyptian desert, specifically the Wati Hitan section. Vast expanses of sand, hot dry [...]
Posted in Purpose Also tagged Charity Team Building, collaborative team building, Egypt, Philip Gingerich, Purpose, Quixote Consulting, Rob Fletcher, Tethys Ocean, University of Michigan, Wati Hitan, whales in Egypt Comments closed
Still, the Mountain – A Pocket Poem
Still, the Mountain by Lola Haskins The monk waits. The hands reaching from his sleeves turn into birds. Still, the mountain is there. The above is the title poem of Lola Haskins‘ latest book of poems, Still, the Mountain. She says of the book: “It moves toward a peace with what you can’t change.” I [...]
Posted in Pocket Poems, Training Also tagged Change Quest, envoi, Lola Haskins, Pocket Poem, Still the Mountain Comments closed
The 200th post – a look at persistence…and a look ahead
Excellence is not an act but a habit. – Aristotle Noting progress born of persistence helps in many ways. Progress is the #1 motivator. And success breeds success. Small successes trump big failures. This is my 200th At Your Best post this year. Wow! It’s nice to pause and breathe that in, notice what has [...]
Posted in Persistence Also tagged 200th blog post, Aristotle, Excellence is not an act but a habit, Persistence Comments closed
What the news last week told us can change in a second
Last week I found out two things from the news: It takes less than a second to fall in love (and I found out that your brain loves falling in love) There is now a computer that can execute 2.5 petaflops, or thousand trillion calculations in one second. Wow! It reminds me that we’re amazing [...]
Posted in Passion Also tagged Change Quest, It takes less than a second to fall in love, Passion, There is now a computer that can execute 2.5 petaflops Comments closed
Want to be a good influence? How to take their foot off the brakes
In Quixote Consulting‘s Influence: The Power of Persuasion and Change Quest training programs I teach that there are there are seven levers to positively influence someone to change. Howard Gardner, the father of the multiple intelligences theory, in his book Changing Minds names seven levers that either help or hinder persuasion efforts. We looked at one of the two [...]
Posted in Training Also tagged amygdala, Change Quest, Changing Minds, Clinton, corporate training, decreasing resistance, effective influencing, Emotions Revealed, empathy, empathy training, Howard Gardner, Influence, Influence training, Influence: The Power of Persuasion, Influencing skills, Marshall Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication, Paul Ekman, Quixote Consulting, Reagan Comments closed
Want to be a good influence? Three ways to step on the gas
Why are some attempts to influence effective while other change efforts fail miserably? What does it take to change a mind, whether it’s someone else’s or your own? In Quixote Consulting‘s Influence: The Power of Persuasion and Change Quest training programs I teach that there are there are seven levers to get someone to change. Howard Gardner, [...]
Posted in Training Also tagged change management, Change Quest, Changing Minds, Daniel Pink, effective influencing, empathy, honesty, Howard Gardner, Influence, Influence training, Influence: The Power of Persuasion, Influencing skills, Kouzes and Posner, Quixote Consulting, resistance, resonance, The Leadership Challenge, trust Comments closed
Are you samin’ when you oughta be changin’?
“You keep samin’ when you oughta be changin’.” -Nancy Sinatra, These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ If the same old approach to things isn’t working, what do you do? This is a question I often pose to groups during team building activities in Team Quest. I design team building activities so that groups have multiple [...]
Posted in Persistence, Team Building Also tagged Change Quest, team building activities, team building debrief, Team Quest Comments closed
What is changeless in the midst of change?
“They had the bearing of trees and waves that accept the wind and the rain accept the night and the sun without changing in the midst of change.” - Nobel Prize winner George Seferis, from Mythistorema As the world changes more and more rapidly, there can be a feeling of losing control, of getting swept [...]
Posted in Passion, Strengths, Training Also tagged Built to Last, change management, Change Quest, George Seferis, Jim Collins, Mythistorema, William Butler Yeats Comments closed
5 Things to Remember When Working With Change
Change can be challenging. Some of my favorite experts on working with the challenges of change are Buddhists. Here is some advice on change from the works of Tibetan Buddhist Pema Chodron. I appreciate that she mentions ‘steadfast’, a beautiful word to add to the vocabulary of persistence. “So often, when things change we end [...]
Posted in Persistence, Training Also tagged change management, Change Quest, Pema Chodron, Tibetan Buddhism Comments closed
I know change starts with me because…