by Liz Guthridge | Apr 30, 2019 | Blog
Welcome to Groundhog Day – the measles version. We’re repeating a dangerous situation from just four years ago in a more extreme fashion. Back in February 2015, I wrote a blog post How to protect the herd about a measles outbreak. People were already becoming more...
by Liz Guthridge | Apr 22, 2019 | Blog
Want to encourage more collaboration among individuals at work? Watch your words! Your language should be cooperative, not competitive, and certainly not violent. The latter is common in “winner take all” cultures, which are less than ideal for both men...
by Liz Guthridge | Apr 16, 2019 | Blog
“I need more confidence.” “If I could be more confident, I’d be more successful.” “We women shouldn’t complain about our lack of confidence; instead, we should just follow that advice to ‘fake it ‘till we make it’.” These are common themes I’ve heard from women at...
by Liz Guthridge | Apr 7, 2019 | Blog
“I rise to a point of personal privilege.” That sentence was my first formal exposure to privilege back in high school. I was clueless about the broader definition, even though I was a beneficiary. While personal privilege is an archaic practice for meetings today, it...
by Liz Guthridge | Apr 1, 2019 | Blog
We need to take time to listen to team members rather than inadvertently or even accidentally silence them. To say it another way, let’s retire the simple rule of “silence means consent.” By doing so, we’ll trade efficiency for a more thorough, inclusive way of...
by Liz Guthridge | Mar 24, 2019 | Blog
The license plate “IH8PEAS” succinctly states this Jeep owner’s point of view about peas clearly and humorously. Yet, the Jeep owner’s health – including brain health — may suffer, not only from the lack of vitamins and nutrients from green peas, but also the...
