by Joanie Connell | Nov 16, 2016 | Leadership, Managing Change, Resilient, Women Leaders
Show Highlights Do you wonder what type of career or business is right for you? Joanie shares the types of assessments she uses to help people to find out what motivates them and discover their self-awareness so they can find out what fits them. Entrepreneurship...
by Joanie Connell | Sep 12, 2016 | Blog, Flexible and Limber, Generations, Managing Change, Parenting for the Workplace
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” –Viktor F. Frankl The principal of a school was concerned about a complaint from a parent regarding the size of the desks in the third grade classroom. “Some of the...
by Joanie Connell | Feb 24, 2016 | Careers, Coaching and Mentoring, Managing Change, Podcast
How did I become a coach? Why did I start working with Millennials? Listen to this interview on Natural Born Coaches.
by Joanie Connell | Jan 21, 2016 | Blog, Emotional Intelligence, Leadership, Managing Change, Resilient
Over the years, we have developed deeply ingrained habits of how we react to things. These habits are often formed in childhood and may not be useful to us as adults. The following diagram shows how a habit plays out. We react to a trigger in the environment (or...
by Joanie Connell | Mar 30, 2015 | Blog, Leadership, Managing Change, REAL Life Skills, Resilient
Experiencing the discomfort of trying something new is not fun. Surely you can think of numerous times you have avoided doing something because you didn’t want to feel the discomfort. For example, it is not easy to fire someone. It’s heart wrenching to discipline your...
by Joanie Connell | Sep 20, 2014 | Blog, Flexible and Limber, Leadership, Managing Change
By Joanie Connell Change is inevitable, especially in today’s business world. Yet so many people resist it! On the one hand, it is natural because change often requires us to grow and we, as humans, are built to be comfortable in homeostasis. In other words, it’s...