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The last two Wellness Wednesday messages focused on ineffective listening and ways to listen effectively. In case you missed it, we tend to listen ineffectively when we're not aware and not intentional about how we listen. In those moments, it's common for 1) our Life...

Last week’s Wellness Wednesday message focused on Listening and spotlighted four rather ineffective levels in which we often listen. My Life is On My Mind - focusing on our own lives rather than focusing on the person we’re speaking to. Judgmental – Having judgmental...

Last week we discussed the natural Human Need to be Understood. A natural place to continue that theme is with Listening. There are absolutely no places, stages of life, or occupations that don’t require listening. If you’re a parent, an educator, or a coach, there...

Human beings are social beings: we have a basic need for connection and belonging. Whether we’re a high school student, a new hire, or an experienced manager, we all have a need to be understood. When we are not understood, we experience loneliness and isolation....

Crawling for the first time, learning to ride a bicycle, raising your hand to ask a question in school, applying to college, and interviewing for a job all involve risk. If risk occurs, why would we ever do them? Human beings have a deep and instinctive desire to grow...

Our team at Top 20 Training has been invited to speak all over the US and we continue to meet incredible educators and professionals that are ever intentional in their contributions to their schools and workplaces. Over the past year I, alongside my partner Tom, have...

Living in today’s world comes with the reality that we are living in a world of constant messaging. Messages come from everywhere: teachers, family members, coaches, friends, the media, etc. A good thing to be aware of is that messages have the potential to turn into...

Our levels of effectiveness in our personal and professional lives have to do with seeing: how we see, what we see, if we see, old ways of seeing, and new ways of seeing. By SEE, we mean how we think: our beliefs, perspective, or point of view. To be more effective,...

Last week we discussed The Rule of 90/10, the ultimate responsible-thinking strategy. As a reminder, with 90/10, we eliminate our role as a victim and embrace the big belief: “I have the power of choice.” Today we will REMIND you of a simple phrase that can help when...

REMINDER: When we take control of our inside world, we actually influence the outside world. The opposite is equally true. When we don’t control our inside world, we also influence the outside world,...but in a negative way. These ideas (and many others) can be found...