After leaving a fifteen-year career in finance where I commuted about thirty minutes to a very plain-vanilla looking office every day, I found myself suddenly working from home. Although I loved my new found freedom,…
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Note to All Governors: Be the Leader You Were Elected to Be. Shutting Down States Was an Extreme Overreaction and May Kill More People than the Coronavirus. On Friday, our Governor, Gregg Abbott began the…
“Change is the only constant in life.” This quote comes from the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, who lived 500 years before Jesus Christ. Think of the amount of change that has occurred in our world in…
With the Covid-19 crisis of 2020, many companies have had to adjust to leading a virtual team on the fly. For the first 15 years that The Leaders Institute ® existed, we operated entirely in…
Once we start coaching our team, we want to consistently reinforce positive behavior that we see. The best way to reinforce positive behavior is with a strength-centered compliment. In this session, we will show you, step-by-step, how to give and receive a compliment….

Stress is not all bad or all good. We all have good and bad stressors in our lives. Positive stress helps us accomplish our goals and achieve tasks, while negative stress tends to spike our…