When the word “leader” is spoken, there are certain names that immediately come to mind including Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Or from the past there are the leaders of Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Tubman, Winston Churchill and others. Nevertheless during… Read More ›
As a leader ends his/her day, it’s normal to ask a question of evaluation in terms of how successful the day might or might not have been. However, how that question is phrased in the mind of the leader has… Read More ›
A mature leader learns to avoid black and white thinking particularly in the area of conflict between two individuals. In adult relationships (as opposed to adult-children relationships), seldom is one person the victim and the other person the victimizer. Most… Read More ›
Here’s a list of ten behaviors that must be left behind if a leader is to attain and then maintain success. A beneficial exercise is to take each item on the list individually seeking to articulate your theories behind why… Read More ›
Rational Emotive Therapy teaches that happiness can be determined by how you answer three basic questions: What do I need (as opposed to want) in life? What can others psychologically (versus physically) do to me? What does the world owe… Read More ›
Rational Emotive Therapy teaches that I don’t get upset nor does someone make me upset nor upset me. The accurate way to say it is I upset myself. Once I begin using that phrase and accepting responsibility for being upset,… Read More ›
You Can Control Your Feelings! by Bill Borcherdt, ACSW explains the basic tenets of Rational Emotive Therapy. Through learning new ways of verbally expressing yourself, you change the way you think, feel, and behave. This poster has phrases that although… Read More ›
The word laziness is too seldom used. Rather than acting with pure integrity, the lazy person willingly takes advantage of the system to get away with as little energy output as possible. Their inability to look at himself or herself… Read More ›
Remember the phrase “Mind your own business?” In my childhood it was a reminder to not try and eavesdrop on adult conversations. With this poster, we’d use it to literally remind ourselves as leaders to focus on the things that… Read More ›
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 ›
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