CRISIS LEADERSHIP & SPOKESPERSON SKILLS: Shaping Public Perceptions

Crisis Leadership & Spokesperson Skills –  Mismanaged crises eat up valuable time, resources and money. Failed leadership leads to failed crisis management. Mismanaging crises can destroy lives, careers, employee morale and stakeholder trust – impacting organizations for years and even decades.  This is the final part of a special 3-part series on effective crisis leadership …

MOTIVATE & DISRUPT YOURSELF – 3 Goal-Setting Strategies to Lose “Wait”!

The new year marks the time when many people reboot their efforts to improve the quality of their life and work. Your success hinges on the goal-setting strategies you choose. This year I decided to get a head start on my resolutions by starting on them this fall – and one is to become more …

LEADERS DECISION-MAKING STRATEGIES: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You

When birds hit the engines of a US Airways Airbus A320, Captain Sully Sullenberger had just 205 seconds to make life and death decisions before safely crash landing into the Hudson River. The late Enron CEO, Ken Lay, made decisions that led his company to the peak of corporate success, followed by decisions that ultimately …

NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS THAT WORK: Studies Reveal the Right Recipe

Many people have a love / hate relationship with New Year’s resolutions. They either look forward to them – or grimace at the very thought. A recent study by the University of Scranton confirms this great divide, finding 45% of Americans usually make resolutions while 38% absolutely never go down that road. The study also …

Michael Phelps’ 4 Performance Secrets – – And How You Can Use Them Every Day

If you Google “state management” you will likely be directed to sites about state government. But, state management is a term we have used for many years from our expertise in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) to describe how to get yourself into a winning zone so you can access peak mental and physical states to …