Ronni Hendel-Giller Leadership Coach Years ago, I bought—and read—every book I could find about challenging conversations: Difficult Conversations, Crucial Conversations, and Fierce Conversations—all of them. Each added to my understanding of how to have (and why not to avoid) the conversations that we least want to have. I attended several workshops that focused on shifting… Continue reading The Doing and Being of Difficult Conversations
Voyage Denver Magazine Feature on Kari Granger Founder of TGN Consulting, Kari Granger, was recently featured in Voyage Denver Magazine. as a part of their Trailblazer Series. The interview covered a broad range of topics but highlighted how Kari got to where she is today and what has been most important to her along that… Continue reading Life and Work with Kari Granger: Magazine Feature
Interview with the Voyage Denver and Kari Granger: Today we’d like to introduce you to Kari L. Granger. Kari, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today? I was an Air Force Officer, deployed to Iraq for the first time. When I experienced a mortar attack, I… Continue reading Life and Work with Kari L. Granger
Where Does Your Future Live? Doug Fisher The future has an impact on us. It affects how we feel and the actions we take. It’s not what we have had in the past, but how the future looks to us that has the greater impact. For example, imagine a person who earns $50,000 per… Continue reading Where Does Your Future Live?
Loving Stuff That Doesn’t Matter Doug Fisher A study by researchers at Stanford University found that people who frequently switch between several streams of media (e.g. email, internet, text messaging, instant messenger, social networking, etc.) do not perform as well as those who prefer to complete one task at a time. The researchers kept looking… Continue reading Loving Stuff That Doesn’t Matter
The sports arena is not the only place game-changing plays are made. We make them in business deals, in our career, in relationships, through innovations, strategic visions, and more. In the non-profit world, lives are dedicated to “changing the game” in areas that need it most. As an executive coach, I coach leaders who want to… Continue reading Change the Game, and the Game Changes You
This is a 2-part series on accountability. In Part 1 we started at the beginning with self-accountability. Accountability always begins with oneself. After addressing accountability with ourselves, we now move to address how to conduct ourselves in a way that elevates the accountability in the world around us. Because we are in the world with others, we need a way to… Continue reading Accountability Part 2: Holding Others Accountable
I work with people who want performance and results — making stuff work exceptionally well: organizations, projects, strategy, bosses, team members, direct reports, personal relationships, health, play, retirement, family, balance, finances, etc. — basically, life. Sometimes the conversations focus on big new ventures or colossal failures, but more often than not, getting stuff to work exceptionally well in life… Continue reading Accountability Part 1: Making Stuff Work Exceptionally Well
The “Victim.” We all have them in our life, maybe you are one of them, maybe you work with one, or maybe you are married to one. One thing I have learned in the last 15 years as a coach, there are two things that no one likes: 1) being called a “victim” and 2)… Continue reading How To Deal with the “Victim Mentality” in Others
