Last weekend we attended a local TEDx event. There were great live presenters, as well as a few presenters brought to us through video from other offerings of TED. (To clarify: TED here stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design and is not related to our Power of TED* work.) One of the taped talks was …
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Last week I was in India, serving as an executive coach in the School for Inspired Leadership (SOIL) and Mesa Research Group’s Global Leadership Program. During the program, we had the great pleasure of meeting and hearing from Arun Maira, who is a member of the Planning Commission of India and former chairman of the …
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During a recent conference call with our TED* Practitioners, one made the comment that she dislikes interacting with Victims and sets strict boundaries to make sure she stays away from people who complain and/or wallow in their powerlessness. She said, “I have very little patience with people who play the victim role in the DDT …
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Last week I introduced an interview with Meg Wheatley, consultant and author, by Art Kleiner, which appeared in strategy+business magazine. She clearly described the impact of the Victim Orientation and a Creator Orientation on an organization and the work environment. The problem-focused, fear-based and reactive Victim Orientation is fertile soil for the growing of the …
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Note: This “TED* Thoughts” begins a new series that will run throughout 2012. Each month will focus on a particular aspect of life in which to apply TED* (*The Empowerment Dynamic)™. This month it will be at work – and work can be in any kind of organizational setting. In addition, each week will be …
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Our friend, Carol Winkler is creator of the weekly “Inspired Athlete” blog. They are always touching and usually… well, inspiring! Her latest featured Dan Weldon, the young racecar driver who was tragically killed in an awful multi-car crash. In quoting a colleague of Weldon’s who observed that “he left (others) with his kindness, his spirit,” …
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This issue of TED* Thoughts is a follow up to last week’s posting on “Reactive Strategies,” in which we looked at a tense situation through the frame of the Dreaded Drama Triangle (DDT)™, also known as the Karpman Drama Triangle. Let’s start with the same scenario as last week: The situation is tense at work …
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The situation is tense at work or at home. You are overwhelmed with all that you have on your plate to do. An important colleague or one of your family members comes to you with an urgent request that you had not anticipated. How do you react? We all have developed reactive strategies that get …
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I’ve been putting off writing this blog for too long. Or is it that I have been patient? Sometimes there is a fine line between the two. The idea of this topic first arose several weeks ago. Then a great suggestion for A Challenger Practice came along, followed by the July 4th US holiday’s Declaration …
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This past week, I published the monthly “TED* Letter” electronic newsletter entitled “Learning Intent: The Key to Effective Challenger.” Several readers commented on it – including Ceci Miller, my friend and editor/consultant on The Power of TED*. Ceci sent the following email in which she shares a great preventive practice that helps her relate to …
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