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Stress Success - Part One

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

“Tough times never last…but tough people do” ~ Dr. Robert Schuller
The title of this installment, Stress Success, may sound strange but if we could take the focus off of dealing with stress in our lives and shift it to learning from adversity - we’d all be much better off. Some people thrive on stress - [...]

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Steinbrecher Advanced Coaching 3 Day Workshop - Methodology and ROI

Friday, July 30th, 2010

The ROI Coach Training Workshop, November 2 - 4, 2010
CLASS OVERVIEW
In this three full day learning experience, I will be teaching all of the tools and processes that I use currently in my executive coaching practice. I am sharing these tools for a number of reasons. First and foremost the practice of executive coaching had [...]

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In Order to Lead, Sometimes We Must Follow ~ The 100 miles to Shiner

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

Leaders don’t force people to follow - they invite them on a journey. ~ Charles S. Lauer

If you ask many accomplished people, they will tell you that someone believed in them somewhere along their path to success. It could be a parent, a friend, an employer, or a mentor of some sort - the point [...]

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Detachment - Learning to Let Go

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

Detachment is a plant of slow growth; if you pluck the tender plant to look for the pods, you will be disappointed.
~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Detachment
What is it? Some ambiguous, esoteric expression?
How can any of us be “detached” from our lives, our stresses and problems?
The interesting thing is that when we detach from the [...]

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Are You Living in a Fishbowl?

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

Heart Centered Leadership Principal #5: Know the Impact of Your Words and Actions

We often equate the role of a leader in an organization to that of a fish in a fishbowl. The leader, swims around minding their own business and doing what they need to do. Meanwhile, the rest of the world views [...]

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Humility

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
- Benjamin Franklin
What is real power? Is it the propensity to exercise authority over another? To be the alpha male or female in a dog-eat-dog world?
A quote we use from the Tao Te Ching, in our book Heart [...]

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Are you Leading or Managing? Putting the “human” back into Humanity

Friday, March 26th, 2010

“The problems that besiege organizations are much better addressed through soul searching, empathy and perspective rather than searching for scapegoats. If the leader doesn’t clearly see the power of compassionately tapping into the human element, he or she cannot be successful.” ~ From: Heart-Centered Leadership - An Invitation to Lead From the Inside Out

In [...]

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TEAM in Training

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Many of you may already know that I have signed on to do another Team in Training (TNT) century bike ride for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS). This groundbreaking charity sports training program has raised over $1 billion to support blood cancer research and patient services.
I think it is an incredible cause. My dad [...]

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Perspective

Monday, March 1st, 2010

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
- Aldous Huxley
What is perspective?
I suppose it’s the way in which you look at the world through rose - or muddy - colored glasses. What do we see when we look at the world, other people, our problems? [...]

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Leading A Heart-Centered Life

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Love doesn’t make the world go ‘round’; love is what makes the ride worthwhile. ~ Franklin P. Jones
How can we lead a more heart-centered life?
With the relentless pressures of work, and challenges of day-to-day life combined with the fearful, negative headlines in the media – remembering to “live from the heart” seems like a daunting [...]

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