Last week, one of my coaching clients asked, “How can I continually challenge my high performing employees?” It’s an important question. Interesting and challenging work motivates our employees to put in extra effort, learn new skills, and decreased the likelihood that they will leave our organization. For work to be challenging, it must meet the […]
Category: Achievement
Most Expensive Lunch Ever
This week someone paid $3,300,100.00 to have lunch with Warren Buffett. Now that is an expensive lunch. It was for a charity auction, in fact, it is the 19th time Warren Buffett has auctioned off lunch. It got me to thinking about what questions I would ask Mr. Buffett. Figuring, this is your typical business […]
Lessons from the Big Swim
The rain fell from the silver-grey sky onto the group of us. Standing on the windswept beach, we listened to the words we did not want to hear. The Big Swim was canceled due to the weather conditions. My brother and forty-five other swimmers had spent the better half of the year training to swim […]
Embrace Gratitude: Simple Actions to Improve Connection
Embrace Gratitude. Simple words in this time of Thanksgiving. In the United States of America, this Thursday we will gather around tables small and large, and reflect if only for a moment, on the kindness and blessing in our lives. We will share food and fellowship. Football games will be won and lost. Turkeys stuffed. […]