by Beth Strathman | Jul 7, 2017 | awareness, behavior, beliefs, emotional intelligence, executive, leadership, leadership skills
Emotional reactivity indicates a lack of self-awareness. This includes everything from angry outbursts to quietly avoiding situations and allowing untenable situations to continue. When you are an emotionally reactive leader, people will follow orders – but out of...
by Beth Strathman | Feb 22, 2017 | beliefs, leadership, productivity, self-organization, time management
Feel like you don’t have time to get around to important tasks? You might be frustrated that you are extremely busy but aren’t accomplishing the important stuff that would move your strategy forward. Underneath, you may be angry or resentful that you have to do it...
by Beth Strathman | Nov 4, 2016 | beliefs, leadership
Chances are, your Inner Critic is one of your biggest obstacles to achieving the big things you want in life. Part of learning to trust yourself enough to achieve the big things you want in life is learning to control your thinking, including the thoughts attributed...
by Beth Strathman | Aug 7, 2016 | awareness, behavior, beliefs, change, commitment, credibility, ego, executive, fallibility, feedback, humility, identity, leadership, leadership skills, leadership training, learning, listening, management skills, management training, performance, performance reviews, resilience, self-awareness, vulnerability
Giving quality feedback in a respectful way can be hard. Receiving feedback in a respectful way is even harder. (Even receiving positive feedback for some is difficult.) During and after receiving negative feedback in particular, do you notice you have heightened...
by Beth Strathman | Jul 1, 2016 | awareness, behavior, beliefs, business, corporate culture, executive, leadership, team
I was recently asked, “How do I get my team to run with the ball instead of relying on me so much to tell them what to do? They should know how to and when to move things forward!” Every leader wants a highly competent and motivated team who, with some planning and...
by Beth Strathman | Jun 3, 2016 | assumptions, beliefs, business, communication, leadership, team
I haven’t known a company yet where employees didn’t complain about a lack of communication. It isn’t that there is silence going on. To the contrary. People talk to each other all the time at work. The words are floating out there, but we don’t truly connect to...
