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Take Heart: The Path to Resilience in Turbulent Times

When we travel, we decide what items to pack based on the journey. Physical luggage is finite: it has a set size and a defined capacity.

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The Baggage We Carry

The Baggage We Carry

When we travel, we decide what items to pack based on the journey. Physical luggage is finite: it has a set size and a defined capacity.

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Build Your Listening Mojo

Build Your Listening Mojo

There is so much that calls for our attention: Information is flooding our inboxes and our social media, not to mention the steady flow of communications from professional colleagues and from our inner circles of family and friends.

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A Sturdy Family Root System

A Sturdy Family Root System

He provided great strength for our family root system, and his influence touched each family member in a different, yet impactful way.

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Middle-Managers

Middle Managers – the “Unsung Heroes of Our Age”

Managing the performance of others can be a source of chronic anxiety at any level of leadership. Those in the position of Middle Manager often feel they are stuck between “a rock and a hard place.”

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The Butterfly – The Danger of Helping Too Much

If you are overfunctioning in your leadership role, there is underfunctioning somewhere in the system you lead.

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Family Matters Really Matter

I learned a lot during this very difficult time as I watched the principles of Resilient Leadership in action.

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Understanding the Emotional System

Understanding the Emotional System

We represent a paradigm shift in how leaders can see, think, and lead in ways that are distinctively different from traditional models of leadership.

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Paradigm Shift

We represent a paradigm shift in how leaders can see, think, and lead in ways that are distinctively different from traditional models of leadership.

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Lead with Conviction

Lead with Conviction — Acting Boldly in the Face of Increasing Complexity and Escalating Change Leadership

I suddenly found myself frequently experiencing the powerful emotions of residents and team members on concerns that were important to them.

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Stay Out of Fix-it Mode

Staying Out of Fix-it Mode

I suddenly found myself frequently experiencing the powerful emotions of residents and team members on concerns that were important to them.

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Florence Brooks

Frozen on the Inside

I suddenly found myself frequently experiencing the powerful emotions of residents and team members on concerns that were important to them.

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Fear Does Not Equal Anxiety

Fear is adaptive. It teaches us to be safe and avoid danger. Anxiety is maladaptive. It’s our brain being over active when we are short of actual facts.

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Is Anxiety A Bad Thing?

Is Anxiety Always A Bad Thing?

Through Resilient Leadership certification I learned more about the Rational System and the Emotional System. I learned that we are generally unaware of chronic anxiety and so we tend to just react unconsciously to it in any Emotional System (think relationships.)

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