Millennials, particularly the Millennial A’s, are defined (by me) as those who may have had a cellphone in high school, but they were still paying for every minute. It was also either attached to a bag or at least didn’t flip closed. We (because I’m one of them) are now entering management roles where we… Continue reading Becoming a Manager (when you’re a Millennial), An Intro
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Wildly Important
I finally finished Deep Work, by Cal Newport, and immediately started reading it again. I started it as soon as I finished because it was so chock full of amazing recommendations for how to employ deep work that I needed to read it again to make sure I absorbed everything. While I’ll give you an… Continue reading Wildly Important
Podcast #11 – Winning with Twin Farms
On a car ride home, Patti and John reminisce about one of their top vacations of all time, an all-inclusive resort called Twin Farms. Click here to listen or subscribe from your favorite podcast app!
Podcast #10 – Building Trust
Some Salesforce studying, iPhone 8 reboot instructions, and education on gender judo round out our random learnings for the week. The theme for the week is Building Trust. We talk about the different components for building trust and two books about trust - Tribes, by Seth Godin and The Speed of Trust, by Stephen MR… Continue reading Podcast #10 – Building Trust
Podcast #7 – Asking Good Questions
Women empowerment, coaching with compassion, and scavenger hunts are the focus for our random learnings for the week. A couples visioning session along with a business retreat visioning/alignment session made Patti have to figure out great questions to ask, and John has always been good at asking questions, so they offer some advice on asking… Continue reading Podcast #7 – Asking Good Questions
Advocate Fiercely – Advocate for Your Community
“Leadership is more than just rallying followers, it is about changing systems.” -Martha Maywood Mertz, “Becoming Athena” Advocate for Your Community What does Community mean to me? I define Tribe as the people I love and support and dedicate the bulk of my emotional time to where I want them all to individually succeed and… Continue reading Advocate Fiercely – Advocate for Your Community
Advocate Fiercely – Advocate for Your Tribe
Back in February, I gave a talk to the Athena WE group out at UCF. If you’d like to learn more about Athena Leadership, check out my old posts here and here. The topic I was given was on the Pillar of Advocate Fiercely. Here are some of the things I talked about! “Athena leaders… Continue reading Advocate Fiercely – Advocate for Your Tribe
Coaching With Positive Emotional Attractors
Per usual, I'm auditing a Courseara course. This one is an entire series on Inspirational Leadership and this particular class is on coaching with compassion. Richard E. Boyatzis is the teacher in the course, and he has studied the brain and the elastic receptivity to feedback a person has depending on what mindset they have… Continue reading Coaching With Positive Emotional Attractors
Waking Up With Ashton Kutcher
Also at the Qualtrics X4 Conference was Ashton Kutcher. I actually didn't know very much about him until he came on the stage started with his very intense talk. This man was on fire. He spoke about many of the injustices of the world, including child sex trafficking which is one of the organizations he… Continue reading Waking Up With Ashton Kutcher
Richard Branson’s Leadership Philosophies
I was fortunate to attend the Qualtrics X4 Conference this past March. There, Richard Branson was interviewed by the CEO and he was asked about leadership. "All a business is is a group of people." Humans that are coming together for the betterment of some kind of cause, whether to make money or help change… Continue reading Richard Branson’s Leadership Philosophies
Patti is still learning 