By saying “What prompted you?” instead of “Why did you do that?” and and sharing your motive for asking helps both mentor and mentee relax and perform at your optimum level.
Managing Remote Meetings
To manage a remote meeting well, the leader needs to communicate and reinforce expected behaviors while allowing for unique participation.
Own Your Difference
Although it takes courage, owning your difference gives you the opportunity to close the gap with another and create genuine human connection.
Dad’s Legacy
Dad’s legacy was to lean in and learn from every encounter. I’m safe because I have something to learn about the person and their experience. He showed me every person is worthy of dignity; it’s on me to learn their story.
Let Them Lead
When I listen to learn, I can affirm their experience, even if it’s different from my own. Pursuing genuine human connection, I’ve discovered that both the other person and I have something to learn; we’re both changed and benefited. Letting them lead is also more productive than assuming I know the problem and the solution.
Compassion in Command: A Police Chief’s Story
To accomplish your mission as a leader, it’s in your own and the organization’s best interests to incorporate compassion for people in their particular circumstances into your command.
Three Steps to Bridge the Divide
To bridge the divide, don’t fixate on battle-ground issues, focus on common-ground problems and opportunities we can work on together.
What to Think Before Before You Speak
What do you think before you speak? By clicking on this poem, discover what to think before you speak and how to nourish genuine human connection.
Maximize Group Engagement
Productivity and collaboration get dinged when conversations take a bad turn. To get from workplace drama and factions to collaborating teams, learn how to set in motion a new norm, a culturally intelligent system for communication.
Police Chief Critiques Cultural Intelligence Course
This is an interview of Chief Carter, a police chief in the St. Louis metro area, who was kind enough to be an early reviewer of the course, “Awkward to Awesome: Boost Productivity, Diversity and Collaboration with Cultural Intelligence”