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Looking for some professional development training you can use in-house? Need to “spice-up” the professional development and performance of your managers, su...

In psychology and cognitive science, a schema describes a pattern of thought or behavior that organizes categories of information and the relationships among...

I was asked recently why an employee should have respect for their manager, if the manager didn’t have any experience doing the technical job that the employ...

When conducting training for new leaders, one of the basic concepts we explore is how they obtain and use the different sources of power. There are five bas...

After providing active shooter training at a nearby university and nation-wide realty company, one of the participants asked my opinion about where all of th...

Statistically, I am a survivor and probably shouldn't be here... With a significantly lower average life expectancy after retirement, increased exposure to h...

Leadership lessons can be learned almost anywhere, even while walking on a treadmill, listening to rock-n-roll and watching a little league game on T.V. Walk...

Life is an amazing teacher. It taught me a lesson in a 2-hour wait in an airport about how we can use technology to enhance the human senses and experience ...

Can your supervisors transform their leadership inspiration into behaviors? In my CMF Leadership Consulting’s Leadership Effectiveness seminars, I ask the ag...

When you’re sick and don’t know what is wrong with you, you go to a doctor, right? And then what happens? The doctor may conduct an examination and asks yo...

When I was a kid in the 1960’s I remember seeing a sci-fi movie, The Fly. In the movie, a scientist invents a machine to transport matter, and decides to te...

The Current Problem Early in my law enforcement career, I was taught the phrase, “Better to be judged by twelve, then carried by six,” referring to surviving...

Over the last 3 years one of my clients has applied for more than 40 specific positions to which I felt he was more than qualified to do, and he was rejected...

Scenario - You are observing a classroom of kindergarten students and see "Little Johnnie" coloring on the wall by the window. The teacher goes over and tel...

People and organizations are always talking about learning leadership principles, and leadership practices. But what many leaders within those organizations...

In response to the recent naval incidents involving US ships, including collisions involving the USS Fitzgerald and the John S. McCain, in which 17 sailors w...

We are always asked the question: “Are leaders born or is leadership learned?” Well, let's address the obvious first, all leaders have to have been born at ...

Every time we do a leadership class or training, we talk about traits of a good leader, and inevitably "integrity" and "loyalty" are almost always traits tha...

When was the last time you had to do algebra, geometry, or statistics? Did you remember all the little steps? When was the last time you had to write a boo...

In today's fast-paced, immediate-gratification, information age, we have come to use credit and credit scores to determine a level of buying power and almost...