Collaboration and Partnerships
Assertiveness
Confidence is always the best accessory. Own the moment. Own your space. ―Andrena Sawyer
Teamwork
The process of working collaboratively with a group of people in order to achieve a goal. Teamwork is often a crucial part of a business, [...]
Conflict
Conflict does not need to be negative or unhealthy. Conflict facilitates the sharing of divergent views. The process provides an opportunity to gain understanding; optimal [...]
Collaboration
There are times people use the word “collaboration” but what they really want is “conforming”. Conform is “do as I say.” Collaboration is “let’s work [...]
Communication Skills
Everything DiSC
Learning Alliances Company believes that communication and people skills are critical to any organization, team and individuals. Without effective communication, collaboration is only temporary conformance. [...]
Feedback
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots. ―Frank A. Clark
Management and Leadership
Meeting Management
Successful meetings begin with everyone having a clear and common understanding of what a successful meeting will look like, be about and their role in that meeting.
Trust Building
The glue that holds all relationships together – including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity. ―Brian Tracy
Effective Facilitation
Facilitation maximizes group involvement to achieve the best possible results for you and your team.
Strategic Planning
A strategy is multi-dimensional planning, multi-team collaboration and multitasking action. ―Pearl Zhu, Digital Valley: Five Pearls of Wisdom to Make Profound Influence
Employee Performance
Don’t lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. ―Ralph Marston
Change Leadership
The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change. ―Bill Clinton
Ethics
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do. ―Potter Stewart
Delegation
The really expert riders of horses let the horse know immediately who is in control, but then guide the horse with loose reins and seldom use the [...]
The Myth of Time and Productivity
Time becomes a constraint when we expect too much to complete in too little time. The myth is that we blame time when our expectations, our work [...]
Inspirational Leader
The more you inspire, the more people will inspire you. ―Simon Sinek Great leaders don’t set out to be a leader…they set out to make a difference. [...]
Self-Management
Stress and Energy
Energy and persistence conquer all things. ―Benjamin Franklin
Emotional Intelligence
Unleash in the right time and place before you explode at the wrong time and place. ―Oli Anderson
Coping with Change in the Workplace
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better. [...]