Thanks to Eliott Washor, Founder of Big Picture Schools, for sharing your wisdom around the history of education and academia. Socratic dialogue is all about asking good questions. In fact, education in its purest form is about asking great questions.
Posted in Blog | Tagged Communication Skills, Effective Relationships, Emotional Intelligence, Leadership, student engagement | Leave a commentFollowing is the winning submission we received for our December & January E-News Contest, “The most compelling reply to Jeff’s post, “Owning Your Potency.” Congratulations to Coach Ryan Hoopes, and thank you for taking the time to share your story with us!
Posted in Blog | Tagged Emotional Intelligence, Leadership, Self Efficacy | 2 CommentsMost people have a limited view of what it means to be authentic. “Being true to myself” seems to be the most common definition I hear. What does that even mean? Following your values? Terrific (if you are in a Persister Phase). Meeting your psychological needs in healthy ways? Even better. Finding ways to use [...]
Posted in Blog | Tagged Communication Skills, Effective Relationships, Emotional Intelligence, Leadership, Process Communication Model, soft-skills | 1 CommentWe have a very exciting new event coming on January 20th!! Jerome Lefeuvre, from Kahler Communication France, and Joseph and Judith Pauley of Kahler Washington will be sharing their insights with us at a FREE event (sponsored by yours truly). We’ve titled it, “Drama and Miscommunication in the Workplace: Strategies to Break Free!” (doesn’t it [...]
Posted in Newsletter | Tagged Communication Skills, Effective Relationships, Emotional Intelligence, Process Communication Model, Professional Development Services | 1 CommentSupervisors, managers, mom, dad, whatever your title is… it is just that, a “title,” not an “entitlement.”
Posted in Blog | Tagged Communication Skills, Conflict Resolution, Effective Relationships, Emotional Intelligence, Employee Engagement, Employee Motivation, Leadership, Social Intelligence, Trust In the Workplace | 2 Comments…More effectively communicate life lessons from the Bible to different audiences, increasing involvement by utilizing different personalities in the congregation, and improved self-care and self-awareness were just a few of the skills gained…
Posted in Newsletter | Tagged Communication Skills, Conflict Resolution, Effective Relationships, Emotional Intelligence, Process Communication Model, Professional Development Services, soft-skills | Leave a comment“Through PCM you gain a lot of self awareness and learn how to proclaim a message of who you are as a church,” Ratzlaff says. “It helps us on a daily basis with our interactions with people of all styles. I love that it helps embrace each person’s diversity and gifts and helps you know how to make leadership choices and to honor everyone’s gift when moving a group forward.”
Posted in News | Tagged Communication Skills, Conflict Resolution, Effective Relationships, Emotional Intelligence, Leadership, Leverage Diversity, Life Balance, Process Communication Model, Self Care, Social Intelligence, soft-skills | Leave a commentRan across this article and thought we’d share. (Remember, we do training that increases self-efficacy, and we train other trainers how to do it too!) Efficacy vs. Esteem
Posted in Blog | Tagged Emotional Intelligence, Leadership, Personality, Social Intelligence, soft-skills | 1 CommentIn a remote area in the Calabasas hills, there is a stone building, an outdoor amphitheater, a tree house and a garden. Children come here each day, ages preschool through 5th grade, to follow their passion. The lessons are based on what they want to learn that day. A simple question to a teacher like, “How does a robot work?” can turn into months of instruction and international Skyping to engineer and build a working robot, just to see how it is done.
Posted in News | Tagged Communication Skills, Conflict Resolution, Effective Relationships, Emotional Intelligence, Employee Engagement, Leverage Diversity, Motivating Youth, Personality, Process Communication Model, School Behavior Problems, Social Intelligence, soft-skills, student engagement | Leave a commentThe entitled PCM user seeks special treatment because of their personality, or expects others to tolerate them without accountability. “Hey, as a Rebel, I need a hands-off management style, so back off and leave me alone.” This is entitled, selfish behavior, and it’s a misuse of PCM.
Posted in Blog | Tagged Communication Skills, Effective Relationships, Emotional Intelligence, Employee Motivation, Leadership, Personality, Personality Assessment, Process Communication Model, Social Intelligence, soft-skills, Trust In the Workplace | 2 Comments