Conflict, Daggers, and Punches at Work

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Sylvia Lafair, PhD

Are you ready for the really BIG holiday season moving into high gear?  Are you ready for the hectic effort to push and pull everything and everyone around you up that steep hill to profits from now till the end of the year? More importantly, are you ready for the extra stress, tension, and, you [...]

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Barbie Marries The Hulk and We All Hate Our Bodies

Posted on May 3, 2011 by Sylvia Lafair, PhD

Leadership education requires us to really take a deep dive into gender stereotyping. It does not matter if we think we are above the fray; it is vital for us to have a handle on what goes on inside the heads and hearts of our employees, our teams. Gender stereotyping has us all by the [...]

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Leadership Challenges: What to do with the Big Bad Bully?

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Sylvia Lafair, PhD

Has anyone out there never been bullied? Please raise your hand. Then send me an email. I want to know your secret… Has anyone out there ever come up against a bully and change the blame game of “He did it, she did it, they did it” to one of “we resolved the mess?” Raise [...]

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The Age of Relationship Has Come of Age

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Sylvia Lafair, PhD

“What kind of workplace do you want to join?” I asked this question to many people I meet. I ask the millennials,  gen Y’s, the gen X’s, the boomers, even those starting high school that I call the gen F’s (the Facebook crowd…) What Do You Want? The kind of organization that people want to [...]

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Leadership Lessons: Success and Fatal Flaws

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Sylvia Lafair, PhD

There is so much glitz and glamour that comes with that power-word “success.” It says “You’ve made it!” And “From here on, life is good! Right?” Well, no… Not so fast… The biggest distraction to success is all the stress and anxiety that sits like a weight in the pit of the stomach that often [...]

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Leadership Lessons: Slow Is The New Fast

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Sylvia Lafair, PhD

It is time to bust open the myth about speed being the winning card for success. Speed is not your friend. Speed kills. Unfortunately, “speed” is what is taught in many leadership development classes today as the way to success. The name of that game is: “Fast and Ferocious Wins!” But I have three countering [...]

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