by Adriano Pianesi | Mar 11, 2020 | leadership activities
Carl Rogers once said, “I realize that I have lost interest in being a teacher. . . . I am only interested in being a learner, preferably learning things that matter.” Leadership is something that matters to me as an educator and as a leadership...
by Adriano Pianesi | Feb 28, 2020 | Leadership, leadership activities
Have you ever been in a meeting titled “Lessons Learned”? It’s a corporate ritual of learning form experience, a specific time when people, at the end of a long project, finally learn something from it. I can’t stand lessons learned meetings, because...
by Adriano Pianesi | Feb 13, 2020 | leadership activities
I often ask my class how many find they are doing more work today than three years ago. Almost all hands go up. Then I ask how many consider themselves good at managing the pressure coming from this increased level of stress. Normally only few hands go up. I then...
by quincy | Jan 2, 2020 | Leadership, leadership activities, leadership exercises
Using an audience-centered approach to speaking will make you a better leader and educator. The most important thing you can do when you’re preparing to deliver a speech or teach a class is to get to know your audience. The more you know about their background, their...
by Adriano Pianesi | Sep 10, 2017 | leadership activities
Most difficult conversations focus significant attention on who’s to blame for a particular mess in which we find ourselves. To stop the inefficient process of attributing blame solely to others, we need a way that will help us see that our own fingerprints are often...
by Adriano Pianesi | Sep 9, 2017 | leadership activities
Once upon a time there was…me, but it was not all right. It happened that I would meet somebody at a bar and started a casual conversation, and for a while the conversation was nice and fluid, but then it would always get to the point when the other party would ask:...
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