Scientists are learning that our brains continue to grow, expand, build new pathways, and evolve as we experience new events – both pleasant and unpleasant. How great is that?
What’s a Growth Mindset?
People who have a growth mindset believe that all people can learn, grow and become more intelligent with time and experience.
You Didn’t Get Promoted, Now What?
Try to look at this experience as something that’s pointed you in exactly the direction of where you’d like to go!
More Powerful Questions for Powerful Leadership
We’ve witnessed the power that great questions have to create opportunities for innovation, problem solving, and higher levels of thinking.
Powerful Questions for Powerful Leadership
Today, we’re sharing some of the questions that we’ve found invite higher levels of input and expand critical thinking.
Leading When Bad Things Happen
Leadership, as we define it, is the willingness to influence your world and the willingness to be influenced by your world.
When Bad Things Happen to Good Companies
We have recently been working with the leadership teams of two very different companies where the proverbial sh!t has hit the fan . . . through no fault of their own. A sad fact: Bad things can happen to good companies, which means that bad things can also happen to good people in those companies. Figuring…
You Are Not Alone
We were recently facilitating a company meeting with a team of people, many of whom had worked for the company for their entire career. In the meeting, people were complaining about the challenges they faced and the hardships of the current financial environment in their industry. They were feeling threatened, singled out, and personally…
Certainty in Your Truth vs. THE Truth
A couple of weeks ago, we wrote a post about The 5 C’s of Self – Confidence and the importance of standing in your own truth. The 5 C’s include: Conviction, Certainty, Commitment, Courage, and Connection While many of you wrote that you loved the idea of the 5 C’s, those of you who know us know…
Giving Thanks
Here in the United States, this is Thanksgiving week, celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. It’s a day that we here at Carpenter Smith Consulting use to remind us of all that we are and all that we have. As coaches, we recognize the power of gratitude and giving thanks while moving through…
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