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    If Life Was a Silent Film
    Ascent Leadership Program
    • Dec 15, 2020
    • 2 min

    If Life Was a Silent Film

    I was recently challenged to view life as if it was a black and white silent film. Without the monologue or dialogue, the only way for th...
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    Thanksgiving Challenge - A Special Invite to your Table
    Ascent Leadership Program
    • Nov 18, 2020
    • 2 min

    Thanksgiving Challenge - A Special Invite to your Table

    We all likely have a significant internal negative voice known by a number of references: Saboteur, Gremlin, Inner Critic to name a few. ...
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    Friendship at Work
    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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    Resilience - "toughening up?"
    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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    Courage (a sign you care!)
    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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    Thresholds
    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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     Stop, Challenge and Choose
    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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    Time to turn over a new belief
    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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    Working with "Wednesday-morning Paul"!
    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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    How to make a good apology
    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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    Alignment in Gratitude
    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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    Scary stories...that I'm making up?
    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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    The Future is Here
    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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    Ripples
    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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    Choosing Greatness
    Ascent Leadership Program
    • May 21, 2019
    • 2 min

    Choosing Greatness

    Choosing Greatness May Action Learning Blog
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    An Empowered Culture
    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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    Can I be less anxious?
    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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    How to keep the leadership fire burning?
    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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    Where am I making Excuses?
    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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