Strengths

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Constant Change l Creative Innovation

A few weeks ago, I was in a room with 32 others at Case Western Reserve University. We represented numerous countries around the globe, including Japan, Iceland, Nepal, Spain, Mexico, India, Singapore, New Zealand and the United States.

It was a very interesting and insightful group, and we were all there with purpose – to grow in our ability to serve our clients, and to complete our certification in Appreciative Inquiry (AI) from the “father” of AI, David Cooperrider.

The Beginning

In the late ‘80’s, before the Strengths movements began, and before positive psychology officially charged out of the gate, the Appreciative Inquiry process was softly launched without fanfare, patent or IP protections, for the world to use.

Since then, AI has taken hold in businesses and non-profit organizations large and small, Read more

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Lessons From A Warrior

It’s all Lisa Kaminski’s fault. The link to the Warrior Dash race was in an email she sent to me. I clicked on it, and sufficiently intrigued, I decided it was time to become a warrior!

And even though I love being outside, and being active is a given for me, I’ve never seriously considered running because of the arthritis in my right knee.

However, with the opportunity to jump over fire, walk a plank and make my way through a mud bog, I cast concern for my knee to the wind.

Normally, in business, I would start asking questions like: Read more

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Creating the Future

I recently had the great pleasure of helping to plan and co-facilitate an event positioned to share learning and create action for change here in Cincinnati! As part of the Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership Cincinnati program, this was the execution of my Leadership “class project.” But it was really so much more!  After seven months of planning and with over 100 registrants, you can imagine Read more

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Does Positivity = Productivity?

As equations go, I’m generally in favor of them. I was an English Writing major in college with a minor in business, so equations usually showed themselves only in my statistics class, and came up again as I earned my MBA.

But really an equation can be:

  • The process of equating one thing with another
  • Defined as a situation or problem in which several factors must be taken into account.

This sounds a little bit like life then, doesn’t it?

Equality for Equations

I’m onto the equation discussion here because I’ve recently been researching a different kind of equation (as defined above) Read more

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What Signals Are You Sending?

Not long ago, I was driving to a lunch meeting in my Pontiac G8. It was my intention to move into the right lane of the Norwood Lateral, but before I moved, I used my nifty “three blinks and I’m done” signal feature. That’s: 1) Gently push my turn signal lever up.  2) The signal blinks three times. 3) It magically, automatically shuts off.

I know that feature is not new to many of you, but when I made the Pontiac switch from my Grand Prix last year; I was pleased to find that feature, and I use it all the time.

The idea of signaling got me thinking

The driver of the Ford truck in front of me apparently didn’t have that feature, or maybe didn’t have a signal lever! I realized he was coming into my lane, Read more

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