Author Archives

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

• Graphic Leadership: Your Worth

  By Dave Arch on February 9, 2015

  

  I’m consistently amazed at how much someone will pay for something that I wouldn’t spend a penny on. Just because I can’t see it’s worth doesn’t mean it isn’t worth to the other person what they paid for it.  We… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: Self Knowledge

  By Dave Arch on January 14, 2015

  

  A wise man once said, “If you know me better than I know myself, I’m at a real disadvantage in our relationship.” “Know yourself” has been an wise axiom down through the ages.  But how do we get to know… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: The Line Of Reality

  By Dave Arch on January 13, 2015

  

  There’s no substitute for a leader to remain in reality.  Elsewhere you can read about The Room Of Reality.  Here I introduce you to The Line Of Reality.  When a leader walks the line of reality s/he has a sober… Read More ›

• 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 ›