Deb KleinmanMay 141 minIgnore Good AdviceLast week I shared Lupine Collaborative's 6 principles of practice: Going Upstream Growth Mindset Creative, Resourceful and Whole Good Fit Shared Commitment ...
Deb KleinmanApr 282 minDon't Throw your Pen at your Board of DirectorsIt's easy to look at people like the Prime Minister of New Zealand and just focus on what a great and effective leader they are. We often don't hear about th...
Deb KleinmanApr 222 minPlausible Deniability of AbsenceSeveral things about meetings: (1) Many meetings are bad; (2) When bad meetings go online, they're even worse; and (3) We're all exhausted.
Deb KleinmanApr 23 minConnecting & Collaborating in the Time of CoronavirusA friend of mine objected to the term "social distancing" and started referring to it as "spatial distancing," a habit that I've picked up. I am not unique ...
Deb KleinmanSep 23, 20191 minAdaptive Leadership is HardI work, as do many of you, in the realm of adaptive challenges. These are those challenges that are difficult to identify and easy to deny, that have no obvi...
Deb KleinmanJul 11, 20193 minConflict, Communication, and HopeIn the last year, I've had the good fortune to reconnect with a college friend, Josie Raney, who has a shared interest in coaching and leadership. Through he...
Deb KleinmanJun 20, 20192 minRough Roads Ahead Still, Sometimes25 years ago, almost to the day, I drove east from Carleton College. I remember stopping on a back road in farm country somewhere in Minnesota or Wisconsin a...
Deb KleinmanMay 30, 20192 minMaking Conflict Less ScaryI am not a huge fan of conflict. I have become less conflict averse in my middle years, but it still activates my lizard brain when people yell at each other...
Deb KleinmanApr 16, 20192 minConnecting Across Difference: Not for the Faint of HeartHaving hard conversations across difference has been a big theme for me the last few weeks, I've been reading about it a lot, I taught two very experiential...
Deb KleinmanApr 4, 20192 minReally truly adopting new habitsI've been thinking a lot about how hard it is to embrace new habits, to the extent that they are just a part of my day to day life. As evidence that coaches ...
Deb KleinmanFeb 22, 20192 minAnxious Brain, Curious BrainYesterday, I visited 30 undergraduate students at Northern Colorado University and we talked about conflict frames in dialogue and negotiation. This is the i...
Deb KleinmanFeb 15, 20192 minOn GivingI've been thinking a lot about giving lately. I recently finished Adam Grant's book, Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives our Success. I listened to it w...
