by Rebecca Dearth | Jul 24, 2019 | Human Connection, Leaderships Skills
“Look sir, I think, right in this area here we’re doing too much show and tell and we’re not working ourselves out of a job.” And I was like, “What do you mean?” And my old and wise Team Sergeant started to explain to me that, the...
by Rebecca Dearth | Jul 16, 2019 | Human Connection, Leaderships Skills
Shared Experience When Building a Team As Green Berets building solid teams, we knew that the next best thing to shared struggle is shared experience. As humans, remember, we’re the most social creatures on the planet, so we’re always keeping tabs at a...
by Rebecca Dearth | Jul 9, 2019 | Human Connection, Leaderships Skills
Many leaders believe that “soft” skills, like active listening, narrative competence, interpersonal presence, they think that those skills, because they’re called “soft skills”, are secondary to the “hard skills”, or that they...
by Rebecca Dearth | Jul 3, 2019 | Human Connection, Leaderships Skills
It was a big lesson for me as a leader to see that in high stakes, no fail situations, the initial reports that often come in are wrong or at least inaccurate, or at least not fully baked. And that’s just human nature. We all go through this. If we...
by Rebecca Dearth | Jun 18, 2019 | Human Connection, Leaderships Skills
I made lots of mistakes as an army officer in Special Forces. Lots of things I could have done better, but one of the things I did learn was never to quit. Because of the training that you go through in Special Forces and all the training leading up to Special...
