

Can You Teach Leadership Skills?
Are leaders born? Or made? Or is it some combination of both? My experience says that it fundamentally comes down to this: Leadership is a choice. It is product of what we believe about ourselves in any given scenario. Our beliefs are our internal operating systems. For example, if I believe that I’m not a good public speaker and never will be, then guess what? You got it. I will be terrible up there on stage. But what if someone asked me, what’s the story you make u


Where to Begin a Brainstorming Process?
What to do when you have an idea, but don’t know where to begin? Or don’t have the right words to capture all the possibilities? Enter World Café. We recently work with a team who had been through some difficult communication challenges with its leader. When the leader resigned, the team rebuilt itself around a new future. It was critical for them to identify how they would address any challenges as a team, so the past way of doing things wouldn’t repeat itself. We had