Welcome to our final Mindful Practice audio for dynamic leaders. Today’s Practice of Loving-Kindness can be used in many ways to increase our awareness. Later this week we will celebrate one of my favorite holidays – Memorial Day weekend. Years ago, i ...

Welcome to this third audio on a Mindful Practice for dynamic leaders. Today’s Practice considers some of the benefits of Mindfulness and Self-Compassion. Many of us offer compassion to others so easily. Do we offer that same compassion to ourselves when ...

Welcome to this second audio on a Mindful Practice for dynamic leaders. Today’s Practice considers some of the benefits of Mindfulness and Gratitude in honor of our mothers and other women who guided and mentored us to help us flourish and become the lea ...

Welcome to this first audio introducing a Mindful Practice. During this series I will introduce Mindfulness, its benefits and then end with a brief Mindful Practice. Each Mindful Practice will be different.  We start with a very simple 60 second ...

This series about leadership continues with this story that was shared by another local business owner. Here we see the importance of basic soft skills in developing and hiring our work force. The owner of this particular business has several locat ...

I recently found myself talking with a friend of my father’s from his younger days and was reminded that this gentleman, along with his family, were also small business owners. We often visited their family furniture store and I still do when I am nearby ...

Many of us practice the habit of spring cleaning in our homes. For some, it becomes an annual ritual with specific tasks and time frames. One late relative washed the walls every spring. As I look back, I now realize this was probably required due to all ...

In 2016, many of us reviewed our workforce to ensure compliance with a Department of Labor proposal which would have substantially increased the minimum salary threshold for a job to be considered exempt from overtime pay. After much work by HR teams acr ...

My leadership blog for this month is titled “Leading with heart without breaking one”. We are hearing a lot more about ‘leading with heart’. In celebration of heart healthy February, this blog is about a topic I hear too often. When an employee app ...

My second leadership blog this month, “Leading with heart without breaking one”, is a follow up to the previous one as the story continues beginning with a recap. I was approached by an employee who needed to see me about concerns with her job respons ...