Leadership Training Blog

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March 14th, 2011

Is It O.K. To Have Fun At Work?

By: Bill Stinnett, Ph.D.

Several years ago I was working with a client who was very harried. His department was always behind. Everyone was […]

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March 8th, 2011

Let Me Try This Again

By: Bill Stinnett, Ph.D.

No matter how smart we are, no matter how hard we try, no matter how much leadership training we have, […]

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March 5th, 2011

Leadership Training: No Longer an Option

By: Bill Stinnett, Ph.D.

During any leadership training workshop, ask the participants, “What is the hardest part of your job? Is it understanding the […]

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March 3rd, 2011

Turning Conflict into Cooperation

By: Bill Stinnett, Ph.D.

Although most people know from personal experience that the two win-lose methods of conflict resolution carry a high risk of […]

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March 2nd, 2011

Fifteen Years Later…

By: Denise Montgomery

Tolstoy said, Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. In my experience, much the […]

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March 1st, 2011

Mom, Would You Please Pass the Values Collision?

By: Denise Montgomery

Family. You can pick your friends, you can pick your zits, and if you’re really, really good friends, you can pick your […]

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February 27th, 2011

Active Listening: Internal Dialogue Edition

By: Denise Montgomery

One of the most interesting things I got from leadership training was the ability to have much more effective conversations with […]

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February 25th, 2011

Lessons in Leadership: Survivor-Style

By: Denise Montgomery

First of all, a confession. Until this very year, I had never seen an episode of Survivor. If I recall […]

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February 21st, 2011

Glop-py Days Ahead

By: Denise Montgomery

Let’s play a game, shall we? I’m a redhead. I’m Irish. People who haven’t been through leadership training might […]

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February 20th, 2011

Realistic Dialogue: People Don’t Listen

By: Denise Montgomery

In one of my practically feline array of former lives, I taught writing. OK, I assigned, read, and offered up […]

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