Leadership Skills

For as long as I can remember, there has been something buried deep in my subconscious motivation that was naturally drawn toward wanting to inspire people to grow and achieve their potential. Not only that, but I have often caught myself mindlessly day dreaming at my desk, or on a…

During the past two years, I’ve had the opportunity to onboard more than 10 people on the projects that I am working on. Even though they are talented, highly skilled and even with more experience than me, I never take that for granted, because a good onboarding is always needed. …

Despite having all the technical skills you need for a project, your team might not succeed without vulnerability-based trust. — · What is Vulnerability-Based Trust? · A Mind Changed ∘ Your Personal Life Can Affect Your Vulnerability ∘ You Simply Want to Assert Dominance · Communicating to Enhance Vulnerability-Based Trust ∘ Reality Check ∘ Bureaucracy Everywhere · Introducing the HILL Model ∘ What is the HILL model…

Stop complaining about time. It doesn’t help. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.” –Maya Angelou Here is something you need to understand immediately: Every. Principal. Is. Busy. So the fact that you are pressed for time doesn’t make you special, unique, or some kind of school…

So, What Actually Is Coaching? Let’s start by defining what Coaching actually is. Now, this is important, because in our experience at Living Your Learning, this is where things often start to go awry. Put very simply, many people, teams, businesses and organisations simply don’t understand coaching well enough, if at all, and as a…

Summary: External forces keep us on our toes, ready to react. Here we discuss the hidden reasons for why we respond as we do. Dear Dr. Sylvia, I’ll cut right to the chase. Time is going by, and I am frustrated and worried. I am a 47-year-old healthy male who…

Conflict management comes in many flavors and many stages. It is basically classified as — Accommodating, Competing, Collaborating, and Avoiding. Let’s start looking at this screenshot below — those marked in red. These are the responses to ‘how to deal with two kids fighting in a class’ (Context: YEP is…

Ethics, Morals & Capacity — The Value of Personal Character — Motivation! Folks love it. You see it every day on social media. Motivational quotes…coaches motivational talks…motivational seminars. Nearly everyone has to click on to hear the latest Row the Boat or Burn the Boats rant by a pro, college or high school coach! …