Blogs About "vision"

A fellow career coach and friend, Angela Beeching shared a great article about Integrity Day – a targeted day when you collaborate with friends or colleagues to get things done. I’m a big fan of assigning accountability masters in life to give you a gentle nudge, or a firm kick, as need be to help you accomplish things on your list of goals.

Integrity Day is a similar concept...

Does it seem a bit early to be thinking about your 2011 goals? Not really, when you think about it. Once the holidays are fully underway, you'll have so many other things on your plate (literally and figuratively!) that planning may get overlooked.

Why not get a jumpstart on the new year, take some me-time and begin developing your 2011 Success Plan today?

Of course, we all have our own definition of...

Normally, when I write about organizational intelligence, I present it as a way of operating within your workplace in order to achieve goals. However, through having conversations with family, friends and colleagues outside of work, I've found that the basic framework behind organizational intelligence can be applied to other aspects of your life in order to make improvements that matter to you.

Developing organizational intelligence at work allows you to:
Deeply understand...

What’s your intention? That’s the famous question that the movie or TV dad asks the daughter’s nervous suitor at the front door as the kids are on their way out for their first date. (And why I always tried to meet my dates out…) It’s a great question. What does it actually mean? Simply, it asks, what are you going to do?

The dictionary defines intention as:...

I’ll bet you never thought that setting POSITVE intentions or defining POSITIVE values for your company or team could throw your employees or team members off track. Well, the research proves that this can definitely happen – if your team views your behavior as being inconsistent with those key intentions/values, or if your actions make you appear to be hypocritical.

Maybe it’s not “rocket science” per se; but I’ll admit to having...

Do you know what it would mean if you had 20/10 vision? It would mean that you would be able to see clearly at 20-feet, someone or something another person could only see while standing 10-feet away. It would be like having a bird’s eye view of the world.

* What would it mean for you and your team to achieve this level of laser focus?

* How much more could...