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Reframing is a very helpful mental tool that you can use to feel better in difficult situations.

It’s helpful when you, or a member of your team, encounters a situation they decide has a negative mea...

 There's a leadership trap I commonly see people fall into and that is the leadership destination mindset. It stems from the belief that if they work hard, do the tough things, then it (leadership) wi...

As a leader you will face many interesting and unique challenges, and each will stir up their own interesting and unique feelings and emotions within you. It’s the tricky conversation with a colleague...

I have a dear friend who also tortures me as a personal trainer. In most of my workouts, I’ll be doing a plank, lunge, or squat and she’ll say, “Go deeper, lean into the stretch”. She’ll push me to go...

In a previous post I defined what an inspirational leader is and why it matters. Today I am going to expand on that and bust 3 myths around what it means to be an inspirational leader so that the peop...

The word ‘confidence’ comes from the Latin meaning ‘with trust’. When we are confident, not only do we gain trust from others (i.e., we appear more trustworthy), but we also trust ourselves. This is w...

Communication is one of the most important tools for great leadership. How you speak to others, about others, to yourself, and about yourself, can empower or disempower people. Words can lift people u...

1.  Coaching is a mirror. 

One way of viewing coaching is that a coach holds up a mirror to you and then your world is reflected back to you. You just see it in a fresh new way, which then in turn a...

For a long time, the veterinary profession has adhered to the leader-follower approach. It seems logical for a high stress environment where emergency situations happen. But what the leader-follower m...