Active Influence™ — Know Your Power
[caption id="attachment_1235" align="alignright" width="176"] Mark Uhlenberg established The Heartwood Group, LLC to actively influence client's outcomes.[/caption] What does “Active Influence” mean and why is it important to achieving results and transformation? Active Influence™ is best described by the words "engaged" and "involved". It is the antithesis of being passive or reactive. As a leader, business owner, spouse, or parent; you can find yourself becoming less engaged or involved with your relationships, employees, teams, and businesses. It may be an issue about some key employees you don’t want to take on or aren’t handling effectively. It could be an issue in the business or industry that causes you to “hope” for something to work itself out when all the signs say otherwise. The reasons are many and recognizing when passivity happens is the key. My experience working in and with organizations over the years is ...
Playing it Safe in an Unsafe World
As long as we wish for safety we will have difficulty pursuing what matters. - Peter Block I just read an article that in our relatively safe environment and amazing country (USA)...people are more worried and stressed than ever. There could be many reasons why the polling results reflect more anxiety in what most would consider one of the safest and wealthiest countries in the world. No one can generalize for any one person because all of us have our own unique worries and fears. However, we are all held in a common bondage of a propensity to be "fearful". What or who is on your list of fear makers is as varied as the people you interview. Let's step back to some broader distinctions that might help at least with perspective. Full of fear for ________. (Here's my big list, you ...
Its time to leave the Hyphenated-World we live in…
Author Note: "I've been thinking about what I want to write about for quite a while. The nice thing about writing my posts is I write when I want and the content is what I want to write about. All the well-respected bloggers will tell you exactly how to get more followers and share all kinds of best practices and tips for a successful blog. When I write what I think people want to hear it never comes from my heart. If its from my head maybe its not bad, but it just isn't worth me taking your time to read it or my time to write. Either way I don't have my self-identity completely wrapped up in whether I'm a well-read blogger/poster/writer of heart things. It has to be that way. So, here I go with something that's been on my mind for a ...
When I think about ME…
When I think about me... I rarely if ever see much of anyone else's point of view. My "listener" is shutdown and locked up tight right from the get go. I'm looking for personal justification. I want my ideas reinforced by shared ideologies and so I surround myself with clones of my own thinking and background. Its a narrow sample size of diverse ideas. I become even more blinded about what others are going through and/or how they want to contribute to me. I can't feel their love and concern or even their hurt or pain. It's me and my world...it truly is a "me-world". I am fixated on a narrow band of issues and ideas. It is challenging to even consider anything outside my view out the front door. Yet neighbors exist on each side of me. I can start to make excuses for ...
Relationship: The critical element of life
When we think about our lives or the lives of those we know and admire, there are usually qualities or aspects of that person that we appreciate or treasure. It could be they helped us out when times were economically tough or sat quietly next to us at the passing of a loved one. They might be a parent or guardian that built into you values that now in your "ripe ol' age" you can appreciate. They likely disciplined you severely or had a very tough and timely conversation with you to get you straightened out. Maybe forgiveness and a kind word when it seemed undeserved. With so much of our life spent in career and work, often it may be the boss that gave you a chance or talked straight with you when it really mattered. The coworker that helped you finish a project in addition to their work load. ...
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