In order to be heard, we have to learn to listen. Listening can be simple, painless and easy; it can also be complex, painful and hard. Either way, we have to learn to listen if we want to get past just hearing what is being said. This is how to listen to others. Open myContinue reading “How To Listen To Others”
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It Takes Humility to Change the World
“If you have to write about it, you don’t know what humility is.” —My Dad Let me start by saying that I don’t know what humility is. For more than a dozen years I’ve consciously struggled with the word and the concept of humility, and I’m still not sure. I do know this: If youContinue reading “It Takes Humility to Change the World”
Change Management
There are many skills that you should build within you in order to change the world. In more than two decades of training adults who work in nonprofits, government agencies, schools and communities, I have identified more than 30 different skills that are important for anyone who works with youth, including mentors, tutors, coaches, teachers,Continue reading “Change Management”