Jerry’s Writings

Emotional Intelligence in the classroom now please!

Emotional Intelligence in the classroom now please!

  When coaching businesses and the people who run or manage them, I first and foremost start with a self-discovery of their depth of emotional intelligence (EQ). It is my humble opinion, based off what I have studied, researched, and experienced first-hand in...

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Vulnerability!!

Vulnerability!!

You think vulnerability is not important IN BUSINESS? This article about work culture on an oil rig and its transformation is shocking, please follow the link and check it out:...

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And Risk Having Them Stay

And Risk Having Them Stay

My friend Bob Meis told me he would rather hire good people with the risk of having them leave.…Than hire lousy employees and risk having them stay!  Can there be any truer words for an HR department, a manager, or the CEO of a company? No!   Christina Merhar reports...

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Beautifully Flawed…

Beautifully Flawed…

Last week my partner Bob Christensen and I spent two and a half days in Minneapolis with Lee Kurtz Gill, Renette Oehlerking, Christi Brown, Jenny Studer, Jackie Galle, Jeanne Christiansen, Marci Heerman, Anna Lotts, Annie Kneedler, Heidi Connelly, Megan Beckman, Kelly...

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Blogski, blogmier, blogskavich

Blogski, blogmier, blogskavich

“We need to cut the crap!” “I swear the phoniness will drive me out of this company.” “Hierarchy, they want me to trust hierarchy?” And my favorite…“We have a lot of Minnesota nice going on here.” I love how Patrick Lencioni describes these kinds of cultures as...

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Finding what lives inside our hearts

Finding what lives inside our hearts

Lately, my schedule has me facilitating many workshops. The subject matter varies but team building, leadership skills, conflict resolution, vision setting, and the deep dive into Emotional Intelligence usually surface.

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Atlanta Plant Safety Leaders

Atlanta Plant Safety Leaders

We were nestled in the hills, outside of Atlanta, on a beautiful Spring week in Georgia.  The lodge was perfect for a team building offsite experience. A setting for a group of men that carry a very heavy burden of responsibility day in and day out, making sure people...

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Coaching Culture-Lakota Native Americans

Coaching Culture-Lakota Native Americans

For the past six years Dallas and Becky Chief Eagle have been providing a safe, nurturing, healing environment for people on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Men's and women's training followed by food and celebration at their home. Becky told me they have fed as many as...

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