Improving Safety Leadership Skills
An interview with Shawn Kent Hayashi on communication tips for general managers, supervisors and safety professionals about how to improve their safety coaching and leadership communication skills.Read More
How to Find the ‘Star Performer’ in Every Employee
Posted 2/13/12 in Forbes, How to Find the ‘Star Performer’ in Every Employee by Martin Zwilling.
Some of you cynics may think that such a thing isn’t possible, but Shawn Kent Hayashi, who has worked for years with entrepreneurs, as well as Fortune 500 giants, argues otherwise.Read More
Conversations that Connect
The holidays in November & December provide us with opportunities to express appreciation and gratitude in conversations. Have you ever thought about giving the gift of a great conversation?Read More
Is It Easy To Get Your Attention?
Ready to listen so others get heard? Recently Shawn was asked a similar question by several of her readers. One of them worded it this way: “Yesterday I received feedback from someone who is important to me. He said, ‘You don’t hear me and I’m having a hard time getting your attention!’ When I look at my behavior I realize he is right. What can I do now?Read More
Are You a Silver Lining Creator?
Yeah! We made it to the other side of a BIG move and we are now settled into new space. Moving, like any complex project, takes loads of communication ability and patience.
There were exciting moments (like realizing there is more storage space than I realized) and there were challenges too (moving during a hurricane, water damage, and misunderstandings about how space would be used.) Sometimes I handled communicating during the upsets well and other times I did not.Read More
People Reading & Journaling – Be a Life Long Learner
Want to be a life long learner? Keeping a Learning Journal is a huge differentiator – those people who practice reflective learning are the ones who leap frog over others. Are you taking detailed notes focused on what is important to you and your learning goals?Read More
People Reading and Rocket Science
This past week at an Executive Coaching conference in New York City I met the person at NASA who heads leadership development for rocket scientists. She told me, “The people side of our work is more complex than the technical side of our work. We are all systems engineers.Read More
People Reading: What is their Style and Team Dynamics?
Jonathan, the president of a mid-sized university, invited me to observe one of his advisory board meetings because he said he was “stumped by the team dynamics going on with this group.”
As I observed their meetings, I noticed that when a team member, Mike, spoke, no one seemed to pay attention. But a few minutes later in the meeting, when another team member, Kim, made the same point using different words and another example, everyone seemed to be engaged, agreeing to move forward with the idea. Read More
People Reading: Dave Ulrich
Author of The Why of Work, Dave Ulrich is also a Professor at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan and a partner at the RBL Group, a consulting firm focused on helping organizations and leaders deliver value. He studies how organizations build capabilities of leadership, speed, learning, accountability, and talent through leveraging human resources.Read More