by Liz Guthridge | Jun 17, 2019 | Blog
Adapt. This verb is absent from the various “power verb” lists of ideal action words for strengthening your messages. Yet, adapt is a potent and popular word to convey the adjustments we need to make as individuals and organizations. If we’re to survive and especially...
by Liz Guthridge | Aug 23, 2016 | Blog
When leaders I’m coaching lament that they’re having trouble getting stuff done, I take them back to the basics. We examine their will (motivation), their skill (ability) and their ability to get over the hill (overcome any real or perceived barriers in their...
by Liz Guthridge | Feb 25, 2015 | Blog
Remember the character NoNo from the 2005 fable Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions by John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber? NoNo serves as his penguin colony’s community weather forecaster. He’s negative about everything and everyone one...
by Liz Guthridge | Oct 12, 2014 | Blog
The improv world wants us to say “yes and….” Yet, essentialists advise us to say “no” to everything that’s non-essential. How do you strike a balance between these two camps? Trying to do both simultaneously is like playing the game of tug of war with yourself. That...
