If you are looking to innovate, try looking out the window instead of staring at the white board.

Change requires teaching and learning to reduce stress, not focusing on feelings and behaviors.

Active listening helps managers and leaders use questions to uncover blind spots, challenge thinking and make better decisions, leading to more adaptive and resilient teams. 

Asking questions to empower employees may work for the few employees who are engaged, but a different set of questions is needed for the majority who are not. Those folks, you need to get to know. 

Chanting, swaying and mindfulness meditation improve synchrony

Coaching team members to identify and self-correct their mistakes yields better results than classroom training.

Avoiding bias is about building awareness while putting structures in place that enable balanced perspectives. 

Inclusive leadership means listening to and engaging with the broadest group of people to determine how to meet the needs of the largest group of followers.

Understanding what drives your competitive advantage can help you determine which strategic approach to use for each business unit. 

Questions can either open up conversations or put people on the defensive. Discover how you can use questions to build trust and transparency while empowering your teams. 

Having a leadership strategy is finding the passion and serenity needed to be adaptive in the face of challenges, not reactive to information or perceived threats to the business. 

Are you prepared to help your team adapt to a more open world?

How one restaurant is creating community despite stay-at-home trends.

Five Questions That May Help You Find Out What Really Motivates Them

Do you use metrics to regularly develop new strategies to improve competitiveness? Or are you reactively focused on keeping the business running?

How we spend our time as executives signals to others if we are leading proactively to thrive or managing reactively to survive.

The more team members look at each other and like each other, the better they perform together.

Do your teams have adaptation fatigue?

Empathetic management can lessen your load and improve your team’s performance.

Remote work helps productivity but hurts relationships. 

Pyramid influencers use support and transparency to collaborate instead of fear to control. 

Getting rid of fear means leaning into the relationship.

A Mindset Shift May Help You And Your Team. Pyramid thinkers adapt when challenged; iceberg thinkers aim to control when challenged. Can you find the opportunity beyond the hurdle?

Changing the social norm from racists to antiracist may prove more effective than changing individual minds. 

Fight burnout by helping your team manage their energy levels and build resilience.

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Their Dysregulation May Impact Your Performance.

Politicians are infamous for telling people what they want to hear; leaders listen for what people need and show them the way.

Ojai compared to 'Yellowstone' in Forbes.com article

Just like Killer Mike and Natalie Portman, Larry Kramer used his voice and the power of blunt language to incite change for what we now refer to as the LGBTQIA+ community.

Natalie Portman's Instagram post supporting #BlackLivesMatter and #defundthepolice provides a great example of the leadership we need right now.

I think we may have just seen one of the greatest acts of leadership this year — in a year in which everyone’s leadership has certainly been tested.

Demonstrating compassion benefits leaders, managers and employees.

Building resilience is all about managing your emotions, reframing challenges, and identifying obstacles. 

There are 5 skills adaptable individuals have: self-control, curiosity, integrity, fearlessness and followership, or SCIFF. 

COVID-19 has taken our stress to a new level. Exercise and meditation help, but so can three other techniques - distraction, reappraisal and goal-setting.