Productive Leaders
Repositioning Your Anchor Staying calm and focused during times of stress, challenge, and change. People who have not spent much time on boats or ships are often surprised to learn that the boat’s anchor does not hold it in place. The anchor is not tied to the bottom...
Why Encouraging Employees to Achieve Their Bucket List is Good for Business What is on your bucket list? Do you have one? It turns out that having and doing the items on your bucket list is good for productivity at work. Wait, what is that? You probably heard of a...
How Can Leaders Develop Charisma and Become More Interesting? The media is full of people who seem interesting. Their lives look glamorous, and they just seem to light up rooms whenever they show up. As leaders, we are often expected to show up at business...
How Your Daily Decisions Determine Destiny We often do not consider how seemingly insignificant choices lead to habits that have long-term consequences. How we choose to spend our mental energy and physical time impacts us and those around us. Lots of little decisions...
The Power of Persistence Having willpower can be a great incentive to push harder and strive for more. It’s what gets you up after defeat or failure. That sense of resolution that helps you forge new paths on your road to success—that’s the power of persistence! The...
Happy Thanksgiving We know that being grateful and practicing gratitude helps us lead happier and healthier lives. Being grateful at work manifests in greater workplace satisfaction and less stress, even during times of high stress. This is my 5-Minute...
Five Ways to Stay Positive When Stress Factors are High Lots of team members say they are stressed right now. It seems to be an easy default and too often, an excuse for not getting work accomplished. What can we do to stay positive and focus when we...
"We all have to learn how to be patient. What builds patience? “All we need is just a little patience," the song says. The only time we think about patience is when we are in situations where we can bring up how impatient we are, how impatient other people are, or how...
10 Ways to Reduce Stress and Be Happier. We are often stressed about unresolved tasks that hang over our heads. Most of us feel as though we have too much to do, and we feel as though we don’t have enough time to do everything. World events, our jobs, family issues,...