We talk a lot about “own your potency” at Next Element. If you are familiar with the 10 permissions that we teach, that were developed by Dr. Eric Berne, then you may be familiar with this concept. Potency is defined as: efficacy; effectiveness; and strengths. There are a number of things that our parents told us [...]
Posted in White Papers | Tagged Leadership, Life Balance, Managing Conflict, Personality, Self Efficacy | 4 CommentsExamples of how a group of European PCM Trainers are living PCM daily in the workplace.
Posted in Blog | Tagged Communication Skills, Conflict Resolution, Effective Relationships, Employee Motivation, Process Communication Model, Trust In the Workplace | Leave a commentToo often as supervisors, peers, managers and leaders we allow the “small stuff” go unaddressed until there becomes a negative situation that is obvious to everyone. Then, and only then, we are moved to act.
Posted in Blog | Tagged Communication Skills, Conflict Resolution, Effective Relationships, Emotional Intelligence, Employee Engagement, Employee Motivation, Leadership, soft-skills | 4 CommentsChip & Dan Heath propose that the only way to get to your larger goals is to accomplish smaller goals first, and build momentum. They call this “Shrink the Change.”
Posted in Blog | Tagged Coaching, Emotional Intelligence, Employee Motivation, Self Efficacy | 1 CommentIn order to accomplish what we really want out of life we have to take risks and not play it safe.
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentThe basic premise is that for real change to happen, people have to experience it, not just have information about it. They suggest that the more information a person has, the more that person [or organization] is unable to change.
Posted in Blog | Tagged Emotional Intelligence, Leadership, Self Efficacy, Trust In the Workplace | Leave a comment…She changed the students’ language. She influenced the students to speak the language of success and they became successful.
Posted in Blog | Tagged Emotional Intelligence, Motivating Youth, student engagement | 1 CommentIn Chapter 3 of “Switch, When Change is Hard,” the authors discuss “decision paralysis” and that a possible solution is “scripting and becoming clear.”
Posted in Blog | Tagged Emotional Intelligence, Leadership, Social Intelligence | 2 CommentsA discussion about Chapter 2 of “Switch, When Change is Hard,” by Chip & Dan Heath. What are the possibilities if you learn to focus on the positive, not the negative?
Posted in Blog | Tagged Leadership, Social Intelligence | 5 CommentsBlog post on the first chapter of “Switch, How to Change When Change is Hard,” by Chip & Dan Heath
Posted in Blog | Tagged Life Balance, Self Care | 3 Comments