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Internal Leadership and Development Consultant at Tenaska and Executive Director Of The Omaha Magical Society.

• Graphic Leadership: Hostage Negotiation

  By Dave Arch on January 8, 2015

  

  There’s a proven model used by hostage negotiators that can lend some insight into building influence with a leader’s followers. The poster presents the model with the steps representing stages carried out over a period of time. Maybe the horizontal… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: How To Not Motivate

  By Dave Arch on October 18, 2014

  

  In an attempt to motivate, it is not unusual for leaders with the very best of intentions to turn to a counter-productive approach. S/he challenges the followers to reach for a certain level of performance. Upon reaching that level, the… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: Boundaries and Choices

  By Dave Arch on August 5, 2014

  

  It has been my experience that many leaders tend towards black and white thinking in their earliest stages of growth and only grow into those able to compromise later in their development.  Some of this I attribute to the strength… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: Your Lake Of Resources

  By Dave Arch on August 1, 2014

  

  In this poster you’ll see a boat that has beached itself – driving full-speed ahead out of the lake and up on the sand. Notice the name of the lake.  The lake represents the leaders finite spiritual, emotional, financial, physical,… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: Your Job To Life Ratio

  By Dave Arch on August 1, 2014

  

  This poster helps the leader make a crucial assessment in a graphic manner.  The oval represents the entirety of your life.  Take a moment to draw a rectangle inside the oval to depict through its size  how much of your… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: Be Present

  By Dave Arch on June 18, 2014

  

  How easy it is for a leader’s mind to drift to the future or the past never enjoying or being fully present in what’s going on in the present. In its simplest form, it probably happens when a listener is… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: A Thought

  By Dave Arch on May 30, 2014

  

  Thousands and thousands of thoughts pass through anyone’s mind in the course of a single day.  Robbing those thoughts of an unthinking and yet very potent power is the goal of this poster. When for example a thought proceeds along… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: Impermanence

  By Dave Arch on May 30, 2014

  

  As a leader seeks to allocate his/her energy, s/he’s diligent to not give much of this finite resource to resisting the impermanence of life.  In his/her effort to pursue security (and who doesn’t) s/he doesn’t seek to find it by… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: The Leader’s Formal Education

  By Dave Arch on April 29, 2014

  

  While a leader understands the value of a formal education, s/he neither undervalues nor overvalues its contributions to their status as a leader. I have watched people with very strong (albeit raw) leadership skills who were so filled with self-doubt… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: Why Do They Like You?

  By Dave Arch on April 22, 2014

  

  In what I consider to be the most significant posting in this series, I spoke to the importance of dividing your Identity from your Roles.  Please click HERE to revisit that posting. In order to accomplish that task, it is… Read More ›