Loving your work and being part of a great team is a beautiful feeling. If you know that feeling, hold onto it. You’re happy to get out of bed in the morning and energized throughout the day. You give your all, and you enjoy your time in the workplace. Not everyone is so lucky. The … Read more
The Bridges out of Poverty model is a comprehensive, community-focused approach to understanding and addressing poverty, emphasizing the collective need for individual, organizational and systemic change. Bridges offers concrete tools and strategies for individuals, organizations, and communities to work together towards poverty reduction. The Bridges model offers a series of workshops for professionals, organizations and businesses who … Read more
In my last post I talked about using the Bridges Lens to examine how we think behave, prioritize and make decisions in challenging times. In this post, I will follow by talking about the 4 levels that make up the Bridges relational model. At the individual level, we analyze the complexity of living in long … Read more
Health and Human Services is a rewarding yet sometimes challenging career. Recent and common challenges faced across organizations can include any combination of funding cuts, high levels of burn out, change exhaustion, depleted staff engagement, communication struggles, low morale, competing priorities, and reduced resources. The domino effect of any of these can lead to changes … Read more
Performance Coaching inspires employees to improve their skills and reach their full potential. The goal is to help employees develop strategies for improvement and take control of their professional growth. This does not mean we tell the individual what to do; nobody appreciates that. When you adopt a “coach approach” to performance conversations, you truly believe in … Read more
The ability to effectively communicate and build trust are the most critical skills in leadership – and these skills are rooted in successful coaching and mentoring. As a leader, coaching and mentoring are essential not only to seek out for your own development, but also to embed and model with your team. Utilizing internal coaching … Read more