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The Top Secret to Positively Influence the Culture of Your Organization

Reclaim your voice and strength on the job by learning how to navigate complex cultures and the changing world of work...

3 Powerful Ways to Resolve Workplace Drama Through Reframing

If you're human, you've got issues. That's not an insult, it's a truth. You're human and fallible. You're also surrounded by humans who...

How Positive Reinforcement Will Improve Toxic Relationships

Toxic relationships suck. We know that addressing it is the first step, but now we need to use positive reinforcement to point out...

3 Effective Ways to Take Relationships from Sour to Sweet

We can agree that having good working relationships is ideal. But working with other humans can be HARD. With a little intention and...

Seal the Deal in Relationships Through Check-Ins

Shake Hands On It. Maybe literally, but at least figuratively. If you are working towards alignment with a co-worker, leader, or even in...

How to Engage Others to Move an Issue Forward, Without Ticking Them Off

If you're working to get alignment with others, you have to make it about them first. What are their opinions on the situation or the topic?

Speak Your Truth: To Others, But First to Yourself

We spend a lot of time standing in judgement of others and ourselves. Questioning motives and outcomes that others have caused, and those...

Bring Down the Judgement and Up the Curiosity to Improve Relationships

We're all biased. We all judge. And those things affect the way we see the world, our work, and other people. I recently was talking...