Unless we are able to listen to ourselves mindfully, there's little chance of being able to listen well to others. Listening well to others enables us to understand the bigger picture and make informed and intelligent decisions for ourselves, our families, our teams and our organizations. During this webinar, we explore the concepts of listening, mental models and internal story-telling.

Taking the risk to start a company is a feat few are fully equipped for. Any business owner knows that the first few years in business are anything but glamorous. Building a successful business takes time, lessons learned, and most importantly, enormous growth as a business owner. In this interview with Doug Noll, Lauren Green shares the lessons she’s learned since starting her business.

The best leaders are the ones who know themselves well enough to admit their limitations and lead from their strengths.

Listening is a first step in a much longer and more complex healing process. This blog is part one of a two part blog series on listening, designed to make learning to listen simple.

We start by listening to our own stories, so that we can set them aside more easily in order to consider other "sides of the beach ball."

Whether you’re experiencing conflict as an individual or as a team, understanding how to have constructive conflict allows for innovation, learning and growth. Having a good sense of your personal conflict style and how to use other styles makes you a more flexible and effective leader.

Some feedback is easy to give. Then there's feedback we resist. This blog explores the art of giving and receiving feedback.

Everyone on your team is in a different place in their journey. Being an effective leader means meeting each person where they are by looking for signs and asking questions to determine “what does my team need most from me right now.”

Yesterday’s leaders “told.” Today’s leaders “listen” and are able to draw out ideas and expertise from others. Leaders who can facilitate make better decisions, increase team accountability, and achieve better results.

When it comes to leading change, there are two angles — guiding the change itself and guiding the people through the change journey. Change efforts “flop” from a lack of transparency behind the “why” of the change and lack of consideration for those impacted.

Before you send that email, what’s your plan? Do you have clear goals? Do people understand the urgency behind the change? If you answered any of these questions with a “not sure,” you need to do more planning before you launch your change.

Values can be a fuzzy subject, so let's take a moment to break them down in a way that can improve self-awareness, decision-making, and relationships with others.

When we understand the needs behind our judgments, we can get to the core of what's important to us and work to resolve the need in question, rather than the surface conflict.

There's a reason flight attendants say, "Put your oxygen mask on first before assisting others." We can't help others if we can't breathe.

Making personal and intentional decisions means saying no to the wrong things, so that you can say yes to the right things.

A personal contract is operating agreements that we make with ourselves to remind us of who we are and how we work best in times of conflict, challenge and stress.

A mission statement is a reminder of what is of core importance to you. Crafting a mission statement is about choosing consciously to take a perspective in life.

A personal vision needs to have a kind of power over you, so that when you look at it or see it, it takes hold, you feel as though you are drawing it towards you.

Most people who start coaching want to jump into designing the future right away; however, the road map is not the beginning of the journey.

Identifying your career anchors will give you a language to articulate why you might be happy or unhappy in your workplace.