by Terri Klass | May 13, 2018 | Building Trust, Career Development, Communication, Empowerment, Goal Setting, Leadership Development, Management Development, Open-Minded
The past few weeks we had a groundhog set up shop beneath our front porch. He dug some deep holes to create a path under the porch and seemed to be constantly escaping our view. Then the critter decided to eat our wire that connects to an outside pole lamp. And that...
by Terri Klass | May 6, 2018 | Career Development, Curiosity, Leadership Development, Mentoring, Open-Minded
When we think about curiosity many of us revert back to our childhood. We are reminded of the freedom to discover new characters in books or find different approaches to attacking a math problem or fun ways to cause an explosion during a science experiment. We may...
by Terri Klass | Apr 29, 2018 | Career Development, Communication, Core Values, Gifts and Strengths, Influential Leader, Leadership Brand, Leadership Development, leadership qualities, Management Development
Last week I spent time in a desert town and met many different types of people and leaders. Each connection made a big impact on how I eventually interacted with each of these individuals. Some of the leaders were efficient but lacked emotion while other leaders spent...
by Terri Klass | Apr 8, 2018 | Building Culture, Building Trust, Career Development, Coaching, Empowerment, Influential Leader, Leadership Development, leadership qualities, Management Development, Manager as Coach, Open-Minded
Listening to a client this week share his frustrations on the state of leadership in his organization brought alarm to me on how I was going to help. By the time I got off the phone call my head was spinning with both concern and possibility. Sure this company had...
by Terri Klass | Apr 1, 2018 | Career Development, Dealing With Crises, Empowerment, Gifts and Strengths, Leadership Development, Management Development
We often don’t see it coming. There we are staring at our massive amount of tasks and responsibilities, wondering how it happened so quickly. It occurs both in our professional and personal lives. Yet, being overwhelmed or feeling like we have too many projects to...
by Terri Klass | Mar 11, 2018 | Career Development, Dealing With Crises, Empowerment, Leadership Development, leadership qualities
Although we may want to, we can’t control everything in our workplaces or personal lives. Take for instance this terrible Nor’easter that my community has faced for the past few days. Many of us lost power and couldn’t drive down the streets as they were covered in...