I’ve been reflecting on my personal experience in education lately. Over the course of my adult life I have taken numerous courses that have interested and appealed to me, and overall I have done very well in them. This was not always the case. I struggled in the public school…
A Personal Leadership Challenge – What is a leader without followers?
Prior to August 2014, my leadership role was pretty straight forward. I had worked out the meaning of leadership in the position I held. I had returned to school to figure it out, and had taken The Leadership Challenge workshop and facilitator’s training to cement my thinking. Then things changed.…
Who, me? A Leader?
Leaders can be found anywhere. Leadership is not necessarily a title but a way of being. You can be a leader without even realizing it. In fact I have come across many people who are leaders in what they do, but have no realization of what that means or the…
Judging a Book by its Cover
Guess what? We do judge a book by its cover. It is our natural first instinct and its imbedded deep within our basic, reptilian brain. It’s that “Fight or Flight” mechanism that allowed our ancient ancestors to survive the world they lived in. Our more modern day selves though, have…