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4 Ds

Stan and The Four D’s

Acute anxiety is a transient state of heightened stress caused by circumstances that feel threatening. One is typically very aware of the threat and consciously aware of acute anxiety. When you’re speeding down the highway, the flashing red lights of the police car pulling you over cause acute anxiety.

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What-if

“What If?” Scenarios Often Create Uncertainty, Not Clarity

When your world lacks certainty, your brain automatically searches for patterns to calm down. When the pace of change increases, your brain must work even harder. Yet not all change is equal. For many leaders, workplace disruptions can produce significant anxiety.

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Beware of Your Leadership Strengths in Our VUCA World. Leading during periods of high anxiety can cause automatic decisions, leading you to be stressed and impeding your team’s effectiveness.

Beware of Your Leadership Strengths in Our VUCA World

Leading during periods of high anxiety can cause automatic decisions, leading you to be stressed and impede your team’s effectiveness.

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VUCA can be managed to reduce anxiety through effective leadership

Self-differentiation is not a goal to achieve, rather it is a lifelong journey of growing in maturity.

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Best Year Ever - 2023

Best Year Ever – 2023

Self-differentiation is not a goal to achieve, rather it is a lifelong journey of growing in maturity.

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Find Calm When You Need it Most

Find Calm When You Need it Most

It’s safe to say that in the days ahead you will encounter both triumphs and setbacks. Some days will be all smooth sailing.

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What is the pathway forward from a VUCA Challenge?

The level of anxiety we face worldwide is extreme and escalating due to a confluence of many complex issues. As a leader, you are the one people look to for clear direction, encouragement, and stability.

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Leading Through Resistance and Sabotage

Navigating Resistance: A Leader’s Guide

Leaders face many situations as they attempt to lead change. Inevitably, they bump up against resistance that feels like deliberate sabotage and often struggle with how to respond.

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In-toxic-work-environments

Toxicity in the Workplace: A Conversation We Need to Have

In toxic work environments, employees experience high levels of stress, communication is limited, blame becomes the norm, and harmful attitudes and actions are rewarded.

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Using Physical Relaxation Practices to be Less Anxious

Leaders face significant challenges as they attempt to stay connected to their dispersed colleagues while at the same time exerting a positive influence on those they lead.

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Dispersed Work Force

Staying Connected with a Dispersed Workforce

Leaders face significant challenges as they attempt to stay connected to their dispersed colleagues while at the same time exerting a positive influence on those they lead.

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What Can I Learn About My Reactivity?

What Can I Learn About My Reactivity?

What Can I Learn About My Reactivity? The positive, healthy kind that keeps us alive and flourishing and hyperreactivity that

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VUCA World's Fair

VUCA – It’s Been Around for Awhile

Recently, very challenging situations have been labeled VUCA challenges highlighting that the systems-level solutions must simultaneously deal with volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.

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Balance the Seesaw

Balance the Seesaw

VUCA challenges often have immediate and long-term consequences that are far-reaching in scope. VUCA challenges are system-level challenges in that the causes, impacts, and solutions require thinking and acting from a perspective that considers both natural and manmade systems.

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