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The Plates of Meaning: How is an important message served up and delivered in your cultural community?

The Plates of Meaning: How is an important message served up and delivered in your cultural community?

When it comes to your communication, are you all about the words or does dress, posture, gesture and body language matter too? What difference does it all make, really?

communication, culturalintelligence, interculturallife, ruthzealeycoaching, self-awareness
Discover your next Leadership Growth Style

Discover your next Leadership Growth Style

What is your default leadership style in? How and who are you being called to become? Which leadership style will serve you most now?

danielgoleman, emotional agility, leadership, leadershipstyles, lifeskills, ruthzealeycoaching, self-awareness
Plug-in people? You’re more like a Tree than a Toaster

Plug-in people? You’re more like a Tree than a Toaster

“I’m on the verge of a breakdown.” “I just need to recharge my batteries and I’ll be fine…” “Am I beyond repair?” These are common enough phrases in life and leadership, and especially prevalent when we are going through major … Continued

hope, human, lifeskills, lifetransitions, machine, resilience, season, self-awareness, Transition
The Optimism Advantage

The Optimism Advantage

True or False? “Optimists aren’t born, they’re made.” Why should we care anyway? A recent seminar got me thinking about why choosing a positive outlook really gives us a life advantage. AND that we don’t have to become a die hard optimist to benefit.

emotional agility, hope, leadership, mindsetmatters, optimism, positivity, resilience, self-awareness
How to Deal with Regret (2/2): Bringing Purpose from the Past

How to Deal with Regret (2/2): Bringing Purpose from the Past

How we deal with regret will affect how much we can grow, develop and push forward. As we looked at last time, regret can eat us alive or be food for thought and growth going forward… In this post we look at how to make sure it’s the latter.

emotional agility, leadership, lifetransitions, regret, self-awareness
How to Deal with Regret (1/2): Make it Food for Thought instead of it Eating you Alive

How to Deal with Regret (1/2): Make it Food for Thought instead of it Eating you Alive

It wouldn’t surprise anyone who has experienced the gnawing, consuming discomfort of remorse to discover that the word originally comes from the Medieval Latin ‘remorsum’ meaning literally “to bite back, bite again.”

So how can we deal well with our life and leadership regrets without them eating us alive?

emotional agility, leadership, lifetransitions, personal development, regret, self-awareness

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