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Successful change is not the result of profound intention but sustained attention. December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance, Spirit at Work, Topics 2 comments

The solution is to create a system that is:

1. Quick

2. Easy

3. Instantly recognizable

4. Universally understandable

5. Consistently renewing

6. Tirelessly uplifting

7. Persistently memorable

8. Emotionally resonant

9. Purposely designed

10.Conveying a meaning-full message

The solution is found in pictures

In the world of communication words are hard work for our brains. Every time we read anything each letter is broken down into its component parts and distributed throughout our brains...

Inoculations of Inspiration or Tools for Transformation April 4, 2013 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance 4 comments

Over the past thirty years as a manager and particularly in the last fifteen as a professional consultant and keynote speaker I have built a career around the conviction that it just takes one person, one moment of insight to change a life forever. There are many people who over my career for whom I have made a profound difference. There are also many more who have been entertained, educated and even inspired for weeks or months who eventually revert to old habits of thinking, old ways of se...

15th Anniversary Red Shoe Solutions September 13, 2012 Keynote Keys, Spirit at Work, Training One comment

Yesterday we celebrated the 15th anniversary of our Red Shoe Solutions training and consulting business. We should be thrilled considering that some experts suggest that the failure rate of new businesses is 90-95% in the first five years.[i] But more than a decade and a half of experience also brings with it some sobering truth.

When I first began as a one person shop, I thought that if I created the perfect training, I could change people’s lives forever...