Keeping it all in Balance
With Nike stock closing at a record high earlier this year and projected revenue of $19 billion in 2010, Nike has flourished under the leadership of Mark Parker, a shoe designer turned CEO.\n\nIn his quest to mix the strength of both his right-brain and left-brain he recently made an entry in a sketchbook he carries […]
Creativity, Connection and Collaboration at CoCalo
Ready to launch a number of new products, CoCalo gathered their sales team from across the country for a two day retreat in California and invited Janine McDonald and Linda Krall to facilitate a session on creative thinking. Facing numerous challenges brought on by the weak economy participants stretched their thinking to identify ways to […]
Road Trip to Sanity
Any business owner knows that vacations quickly become illusive. Time off? What’s that? There is always more to do to serve their customers and grow their businesses. Suddenly I found myself in the same boat as many of the clients I had counseled about work/life balance.\n\nI left a corporate job with a generous vacation package […]
Volunteer Center is now OneOC
The Volunteer Center of Orange County has taken on a new look and a new name – OneOC. Starting as the Volunteer Bureau of Newport Beach more than fifty years ago, the organization’s main emphasis was to connect volunteers to nonprofits who needed their help. As time progressed, they outgrew their mission statement, […]
ABC’s of Leadership
There is much written about leadership, and I am often asked what characteristics I think make a strong leader. So here are J9’s ABC’s of Leadership:\n\n \n \n \n Authentic – genuine, real, true to self \n Being – leadership is a way of being \n Caring – show concern and compassion for others \n […]
Are you asking the right questions?
It’s been said that training isn’t telling. Well either is coaching. People often expect that a coach will tell them what to do – fix their problem. In reality, coaching is about asking questions and probing to get at the unspoken thoughts and feelings that often prevent people from addressing the toughest […]
Ceridian Connectax 2010 Gets Wild
Representatives for over 60 different organizations gathered from all over the country in sunny Huntington Beach at the Hilton Waterfront Beach Resort for ConnecTax, Ceridian Tax Service’s annual knowledge exchange and tax education conference. The conference offers the latest legislation and compliance topics, in-depth product sessions, user groups, networking with peers, and motivational professional development […]
Imagine
It was an evening of fellowship, food and fun. An essential element in the team development model we use with many of our clients is celebration. So taking our own advice, Linda Krall and I hosted a reunion event for participants of our creativity workshops to celebrate their collective genius and wild thinking. We wanted […]
Brain Power
What do you get when you bring the world’s top business thinkers and neuroscientists working together? An exciting new field of study called NeuroLeadership, a term coined by David Rock in 2006. This week I attended an event for Women in Organizational Development where, Jennifer McCusker presented on this topic. Like myself, my peers […]
The Leadership Academy is Raising Up Future Leaders
J9 Leading Solutions has once again been invited to facilitate sessions for The Leadership Academy conducted at Chapman University. The Academy is a unique and exciting way for high school students to learn, grow, and hone their leadership skills. Kim Hayashi is the visionary behind this program. She believes in engaging and empowering students to […]