Leadership in Action – 3 Difficult Steps to Fixing a Dysfunctional Culture
This Leadership Series generally focuses on the nuances needed to help lead a team and culture to better performance by ...Read More »
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Leadership in Action – 4 Ways to Help Your Team Pivot
Pivot! is the buzz word of the moment. The reality is that it is just good change management. To pivot is when leaders E...Read More »
Leadership in Action – The A-List for Effective Communication
As you are Connecting the Dots for your team, it is essential to keep these guidelines in mind:
Active Listening
The...Read More »
Leadership in Action – Are your staff in FLOW?
Your 7-point checklist
Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, a Hungarian psychologist, coined the phrase “FLOW” t...Read More »
Leadership in Action – The Idiot Response
While you want your team to collaborate and leverage each other’s ideas and efforts, more often than not, one or two m...Read More »
Leadership in Action – Our Blink Response Makes for Bad Leadership
The immediate assumptions we wrap around ideas and information is our blink response. (Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book, Bl...Read More »
Leadership in Action – 3 Styles of Decision Making
There are two fatal flaws in coaching others into better performance:
• Overuse of Command (micro-managing)
• Over...Read More »
Leading On Purpose
Many companies are waiting for the “new normal” to emerge so they can make choices on how they fit in the new econom...Read More »
We Stand With You
For over 50 years, The Pacific Institute has been dedicated to the principle that everyone has a God-given right to achi...Read More »
Are we undermining our future trying to do too much, too fast?
BUILDING TRAINING EXPERIENCES THAT STICK
“Learning” is the one constant in an ever-changing world, whether it’s i...Read More »
Leaders: Unfreeze Your Mind
You’ve trained for it. You’ve spent years studying, amassing the experience that has put you in your current positio...Read More »
Leadership and the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
As a leader, do you want a workforce with high self-esteem? These kinds of people are not necessarily easy to manage. Th...Read More »
Fear-Based Leadership is a Thing of the Past
You have a team leader who is a bit of a bully, wreaking havoc with the team members and causing a general slide in perf...Read More »
Are You Working IN Your Business or ON Your Business?
Most small business senior executives tend to work in their business and never take the time to work on their business. ...Read More »
Something’s Fishy
When something’s fishy, what do you do? Most people survey their surroundings as they try to figure out what ...Read More »
The Antidote for falling below SAP
Angela Duckworth and Martin Seligman in a University of Pennsylvania study concluded:
“Self-discipline predicted ac...Read More »
Becoming a Stress Buster
What is the difference between a pleasantly active life and one that is compulsively busy? Sometimes, it is a hear...Read More »
Turning Lives Around With Hope
Thousands of children live in poverty and grow up in adverse conditions, some much less fortunate than others. Yet there...Read More »
The Pacific Institute: An Enduring Curriculum
The TPI curriculum is one that will endure. The principles will be as applicable 100 years from now as they are today...Read More »
Optogenetics
Optogenetics is a technique where scientists use pulses of light to switch genetically altered cells on and...Read More »
“Grabbing” Students’ Interest
For some, school is an exciting place to learn, but for others, not so much. Educational psychologists are finding that ...Read More »
Leadership + Relationships = Optimal Performance
Setting the stage for optimal performance requires a strong leader with a clear vision. Simply stated, the lead...Read More »
The Four Best Ways to Give Praise
You’re proud of your team. You want them to feel that they are appreciated. But as leaders some of us just don’t ...Read More »
Tips to Accomplish Personal and Professional Goals
Yes, it is the beginning of 2016, and it is time to develop your personal and professional goals. Unfortunately...Read More »
Affirmation Assistant available for iOS and Android devices
The Pacific Institute is excited to announce that an iOS version of our Affirmation Assistant app is now availabl...Read More »
For Students Who Need Another Chance, It’s Time to ReSet™
Lots of students need a second chance. Lots of students need a do-over. Unfortunately, many of those students who are gi...Read More »