So far, #SHRM18 has proven to be an inspiration of ideas and people. My top takeaways from the Windy City include: “Drama is emotional waste.” @CyWakeman I love Cy Wakeman and her book, Reality Based Leadership. In her presentation, Cy described how our brains are binary. We toggle between the lower order brain, our ego, where drama exists and our higher order brain. Our higher order brain allows us to focus on reality in order to respond in creative, innovative ways. Cy’s message is that a leader’s main job is to toggle people up to the higher order brain by
Recently I talked about authenticity during employee hardships. With recent events in the news, including the deaths of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain, I wanted to dive deeper into how employers can help employees in need. Mental health is an ever-growing concern in our nation. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness: Approximately 1 in 5 adults (43.5 millions) in the U.S. experience mental illness in a given year. One in 25 of those Americans suffer a serious mental illness in a given year that substantially interferes with or limits one or more major life activities. 9% of adults
“…every movement of your body, every emotion you have, and every thought that passes through your mind is an expenditure of energy. Just as everything that happens outside in the physical world requires energy, everything that happens inside requires an expenditure of energy.” From The Untethered Soul “Coach, I’m tired,” said one little boy to my husband on his 7-8 year-old baseball team. Practice had only been going on for ten minutes and they hadn’t even been running. To which my husband asked, “Why are you tired?” “Well, I played at the trampoline park all day. I’m wore out,” he said. This
Guest blog written by: Steve Graham Job titles serve a purpose. Titles identify roles and responsibilities within an organization. They should not define who you are. Many of my coaching clients have enjoyed successful careers, but they desire to make a change. Too often, my clients are defined by their title and this makes it harder for them to make the desired change. For example, a top performing sales professional may identify as, “only a sales person”, without understanding who they truly are. What makes them a top sales performer is more about who they are than a title. What
Each year at the Alabama SHRM State Conference, we survey participants to gain insights into what their biggest pain points are. Before I even looked at the data this year, my guess was that recruiting was at the top of the list or has at least risen to the top of the list. With the unemployment rate now lower than 4% national wide, the pain of finding talent is real. But what we saw in the results left talent sourcing/acquisition in the middle of the pack: Tied for the highest pain points were leadership training and employee development. If we