I hate it when you appreciate me! Said no one ever.

If we want to cultivate an environment of development, we must appreciate our people. This is easier said than done because we are really good at taking people for granted!

In today’s post I share two practices that will help you better...

As the old adage goes, people don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.

That’s exactly right! If you want to cultivate an environment of development, you need to learn how to care for your people. Check out this video for two things you can begin doing today....

We can't legislate the development of our people but we can cultivate an environment that does!

Be on the lookout for opportunities to call your people up.

• Big project
• Key initiative
• New opportunity

Your people might not feel ready, but call them up to their next opportunity to develop.

You can't legislate the development of your people but you can create a culture that cultivates it.

Highlights

Change that brings renewal requires wisdom

Anyone can make a change but change that renews requires wisdom. Why? Because healthy leaders guide ourselves and others from the old reality to the new. This is what William Bridges calls leading transition in his book Managing Transition....

Sometimes our inner critic tells us we're a fake, fraud, or failure. This video offers three questions to help transform your inner critic into a coach.

Change is the one constant in life. Even as you read this, your body, your company, and the world around you are changing - some for the better and some for worse. To lead healthy lives and healthy organizations, we have to be capable of leading change. It’s a requirement.

For change to...

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Unless you work by yourself, you have relational workplace challenges because every organization does. Where two or more are gathered, challenges exist! To minimize the damage of these challenges we have to first be aware of what they are.

1. Avoiding difficult conversations

People avoid...