How to Build Connection with Your Team

    How does it feel to be back at work?   For some of us, it’s been a few months since we’ve gone back to work in physical locations.   For others, we’re starting new roles.   For many the felt experience at work is mixed. What we value and consider important as leaders,… Continue reading How to Build Connection with Your Team

4 Questions You Need to Ask for a Successful EDI Journey

  Why do organizations and leaders need to ask 4 key questions for a successful Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) journey?     It’s because of 2 things:   1) the context and 2) EDI implementation plans damaging workplace relationships and trust in employer/employee relations   The Context    Our current reality is witnessing and… Continue reading 4 Questions You Need to Ask for a Successful EDI Journey

How to Be Resilient on the Journey to DEI

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) work is tough.   It requires resilience.   I know if I don’t have it, I can’t do this important work.   Simple Ways to Practice Resilience   I have outlined very clear steps on how to be resilient as a person experiencing discrimination and as an ally in a… Continue reading How to Be Resilient on the Journey to DEI

How to Use Anger Constructively

What’s your personal relationship with anger?   For a lot of us, we are socialized to look at anger in a very narrow way.   We learn to see it as destructive, bad, and at times, manipulative.   We are also socialized to resist feeling or expressing anger because it’s perceived as not becoming.  … Continue reading How to Use Anger Constructively

Why Goal-Setting is Ineffective & How to Make it Effective

There’s something I keep repeating: Get clear on your goals to achieve what you want.   It sounds easy but have your found yourself asking: How exactly do I do that?   OR   Have you been in a situation where you thought you were clear, achieved your goal but didn’t actually feel you got… Continue reading Why Goal-Setting is Ineffective & How to Make it Effective