Team Turnarounds: How To Transform Underperforming Teams — an interview with Joe Frontiera
What do the Broadway musical Spider-Man, the Indiana Colts, and Domino’s Pizza have in common? They all used the same process to turnaround a losing team from the bottom to the top. In the new book Team Turnarounds, Joe Frontiera and Daniel Leidl share five years of research of business, sports and government teams to explore […]
“Early Leadership Toolkit” developed by the Center for Creative Leadership
The Early Leadership Toolkit is an easy to use Leadership Curriculum developed by the Leadership Beyond Boundaries team (LBB) at the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina. The “toolkit” is used by facilitators around the US and beyond to help young people learn how to lead. In this live and interactive webinar you’ll learn […]
Carry On
Today I’m inspired by this song by the band FUN. This morning I attended Jubilee Asheville, my spiritual community. The message for the day revolved around the following spiritual question: What if the difficult times we encounter (individually and collectively) are the very things that point us to the fullest experience of life? How do you, as […]
Sending a Video Camera to “Near Space”
For the past two years I’ve volunteered with TEDx Asheville. For the November 2012 event we selected the theme of “THE EDGE”. I thought the theme was the perfect opportunity to send a video camera to “the edge” of Earth’s atmosphere. In the fall of 2012 I began volunteering with a group of middle school […]
Katie Spotz — Leadership lessons learned while rowing solo across the ocean
In 2010 Katie Spotz rowed a tiny boat 3,038 miles across the Atlantic Ocean all by herself. Katie was 22 years old then and she set the new world record for such a feat! Throughout her row, Katie wasn’t just seeking to make history. She was also raising money, for the Blue Planet Network, a San Francisco-based non-profit funding safe […]
Mental Models — How does your perspective shape your reality?
This school year, like last school year, I volunteer each Friday morning at the middle school my son attends. I teach a class on team and leadership development that is fun and interactive. This week and next I’ll be teaching a lesson on “Mental Models”. Mental Models (think “paradigms”) are deeply held images of thinking […]