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Ascent Leadership Program
- Sep 23, 2020
- 2 min
Friendship at Work
Gallup, the organization behind StrengthsFinders and multitudes of employee engagement studies, have consistently shown the importance of...
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Ascent Leadership Program
- Aug 27, 2020
- 2 min
Resilience - "toughening up?"
In response to COVID-19 impacts to our state agency workforce, I developed some material (the ASCENT document titled C.A.R.E.) that discu...
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Ascent Leadership Program
- Jul 27, 2020
- 2 min
Courage (a sign you care!)
Our environments are filled with complexity, uncertainty and fear all working to undermine individual and collective courage. It can feel...
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Ascent Leadership Program
- May 13, 2020
- 1 min
Thresholds
In life we open and close many doors crossing over thresholds. This is normal, healthy human behavior and invites us into new relationshi...
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Ascent Leadership Program
- Apr 20, 2020
- 2 min
Stop, Challenge and Choose
In the wonderful book Play to Win, by Larry and Hersch Wilson, we are introduced to an effective way of retraining our brains through a p...
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Ascent Leadership Program
- Mar 23, 2020
- 2 min
Time to turn over a new belief
The recent precautions and restrictions intended to “flatten the curve” of COVID-19 impacts are presenting each of us new opportunities t...
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Ascent Leadership Program
- Feb 24, 2020
- 2 min
Working with "Wednesday-morning Paul"!
Very few know this, but I have a clone. His name is Wednesday-morning Paul (W-MP). We appear identical in every way and if you were to me...
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Ascent Leadership Program
- Jan 21, 2020
- 2 min
How to make a good apology
"Apologies are the Brussels sprouts of relationships" - says author Sharon Begley. Good for us, but often passed over. If apologies are ...
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Ascent Leadership Program
- Nov 22, 2019
- 2 min
Alignment in Gratitude
Behavioral and psychological research has shown some surprising life improvements that can arise from the practice of gratitude. To pract...
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Ascent Leadership Program
- Oct 25, 2019
- 2 min
Scary stories...that I'm making up?
This time of year, my tv channels are filled with scary movies, my neighbors decorate their yards with goulish images and the dark skies,...
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Ascent Leadership Program
- Sep 26, 2019
- 2 min
The Future is Here
Futurist Bob Johansen, in his book Leaders Make the Future, made this unsettling statement: "In my 40 years of forecasting futures, the d...
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Ascent Leadership Program
- Aug 13, 2019
- 2 min
Ripples
Most of us have experienced tossing an object into a still body of water and watching it create a series of sustained ripples extending f...
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Ascent Leadership Program
- May 21, 2019
- 2 min
Choosing Greatness
Choosing Greatness
May Action Learning Blog
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Ascent Leadership Program
- Apr 10, 2019
- 2 min
An Empowered Culture
An Empowered Culture
Is your culture creating dependency or partnership?
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Ascent Leadership Program
- Mar 12, 2019
- 2 min
Can I be less anxious?
Many today suffer from chronic anxiety and fear run amok. If you don’t suffer personally, you likely know someone that does. It’s not alw...
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Ascent Leadership Program
- Jan 8, 2019
- 2 min
How to keep the leadership fire burning?
One of the challenges in development is the “fits” and “starts” nature of it. We can experience powerful awareness, realize new insights ...
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Ascent Leadership Program
- Oct 8, 2018
- 1 min
Daring to be Vulnerable
I just finished Daring Greatly by Brene’ Brown. Brene’ has done ground-breaking work in the arenas of courage, vulnerability and shame re...
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Ascent Leadership Program
- Jan 2, 2018
- 1 min
Where am I making Excuses?
What are the best excuses and stories you have heard lately? Have you caught yourself in mechanism- stories, excuses, blame, diminishing ...
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