Cash Cages and Connection with your Team

Cash Cages and Connection with your Team

Erin, can I see you in my office? The tone and look implied an impromptu bonus would not be the topic du jour.  “We’ve talked and we’ve decided that you are going to go work in the accounting department for a few months. You’ll be up in the cash cage counting the cash...
Lifting the weight takes time.

Lifting the weight takes time.

“Never give the problem a year and the solution a week.” The author Jon Acuff posted this pithy comment about someone who had gone to the gym for a few weeks and hadn’t lost all of the weight they were hoping to lose…which, as it would turn out, took them years to put...
It’s all Energy

It’s all Energy

I headed to yoga last Friday morning. I’ve got a few favorite teachers at my yoga studio, and a few favorite phrases from each of them.  Begin again. Stay on your mat.  Those are from my Slow Flow teachers.  Then there’s the Mixed Flow teacher who is known to fully...
Feedback to Forget

Feedback to Forget

“Can you help me not be an asshole?” 😳  The workshop had ended. It was late. Brandon was in a shouting-whisper discussion with his supervisor. You know that tone people take when they are trying to keep things quiet but are fired up and that energy comes through? That...