Posts by Kris Girrell - CPI firm Camden Consulting:
Posted on February 12
By Kris Girrell - CPI firm Camden ConsultingEmotional Intelligence is pivotal to good leadership, but most managers (and especially scientists and engineers) cannot distinguish between fear and anxiety. What if we gave them a useful way to identify feelings – might that be helpful?
Posted on December 11
By Kris Girrell - CPI firm Camden ConsultingPulling out of the recession will take more than business as usual – it will take the power of creativity. But how do we access that power?
Posted on November 25
By Kris Girrell - CPI firm Camden ConsultingGood decisions are ones that are made well, not just the ones that come out well. In risky decisions, a leader must weigh the odds and desired outcomes and then move. That takes guts and a level head!
Posted on November 13
By Kris Girrell - CPI firm Camden ConsultingThinking that managers and employees should always agree not only dampens creative response, it leads to a hazardous expectation and a perception of problems that might not be problematic at all.
Posted on October 19
By Kris Girrell - CPI firm Camden ConsultingOur culture, it seems to me, is suffering under a grand illusion that we have a choice we can make, and that in making that choice, we have somehow exerted our individual executive power. This illusion is both confirmed and perpetuated by the ever-increasing plethora of alternatives from which to choose. We believe that having [...]
Posted on October 2
By Kris Girrell - CPI firm Camden ConsultingMost of the work of coaching and of coaches is asking good questions. However, the problem is that in an age of instant answers (Wikipedia, Google and Bing!), most folks have lost an appreciation for questions. We, in fact, think that not only should all questions be instantly answered, they all must have an answer [...]
Posted on September 3
By Kris Girrell - CPI firm Camden ConsultingOne of the most difficult lessons in leadership is learning how not to tell people what to do. It seems so easy to most that if an answer is needed, the simplest thing might be to provide it. Unfortunately, everything we know from adult learning theory suggests that doing so is the least likely to [...]