What to Say When You Don’t Know What to Say Almost all of us encounter situations where we don’t know the right thing to say. Unfortunately, one of the most common and difficult of the situations is when we have to talk to somebody who has been diagnosed with cancer. Whether it be a family member, friend, coworker, or ourselves, when we are told someone we know has cancer we often do not know what to say. On April 13, …
Coach’s Clipboard To be fulfilled take good care of yourself…and others How many times have you heard people say it: If you don’t have your health, you don’t have anything. It may be a cliché, but it’s true. In my new book, The Journal for Book Self Aware, I ask people to reflect everyday on something they did for themselves and also something they did for others. Reminding yourself to do daily self care and an act of kindness …
Authors Tom Rath and Donald O. Clifton used research by the Gallup Organization to craft the bestseller How Full Is Your Bucket? Their basic theory is that we start out every day with a bucket that is emptied or filled by what others say and do to us. We each also have a dipper. We can use it to fill other people’s buckets by delivering positive messages, or we can dip from others’ buckets by delivering negative messages. When we …
I had the pleasure of hosting University of Michigan’s President, Dr. Mark Schlissel at last week’s Leaders Connect breakfast.
Finding Your Passion and Purpose At our February Leader’s Connect CEO Breakfast Ida Abdalkhani spoke about Discovering and Living Your Passion & Purpose. The event was sold out and we had a packed house as many came out to learn and share their own experiences finding passion and purpose. Ida spoke about her journey from The Ohio State University’s MBA program to working as a global brand manager at Procter & Gamble. She worked on iconic brands such as Downy …
From my experience as a psychologist, here is our dilemma: Almost every community has young men who are recognized as dangerous but have committed no crime. School shootings have become an epidemic. We have no idea how many copycat killers may be out there. We have no good way of differentiating between those people who talk about doing terrible things and those who will actually do. Even well-trained mental health professionals have difficulty predicting who will act upon their fantasies. …