by Rebecca Dearth | Jul 28, 2020 | Human Connection, Leaderships Skills
People are going to have to get furloughed. People are going to get laid off. People are going to get fired. You’re going to have to tell vendors that you don’t use their services anymore. It’s not easy. Because we’re meaning seeking,...
by Rebecca Dearth | Jul 21, 2020 | Human Connection, Leaderships Skills
What’s the value of a handshake? That’s the question that’s been on my mind for several days. Now, when this COVID pandemic kicked off, I started talking to leaders about my concerns around social distancing. I felt like we had misnamed it, it...
by Rebecca Dearth | Jul 13, 2020 | Human Connection, Leaderships Skills
One of the biggest questions that we’re going to have to ask ourselves, is how do I help my teammates get back into the arena? And what does that look like when they do it? I coach a lot of very high-level executives who cannot wait to get back into the...
by Rebecca Dearth | Jul 7, 2020 | Human Connection, Leaderships Skills
The question I’m asking is this, after these last nine to ten weeks of the pandemic and the social distancing, how do you feel about human connection right now? Have you asked yourself that open-ended question? How do you feel about it? How do you feel...
by Rebecca Dearth | Jun 30, 2020 | Human Connection, Leaderships Skills
Everybody has challenges that have come out of this new time horizon. Even if you think you don’t, when you have eight to nine weeks of mandated social distancing and isolation, it’s going to have an effect on us as humans, right? So, the larger question...
by Rebecca Dearth | Jun 16, 2020 | Human Connection, Leaderships Skills
In Special Forces, Special Operations, we have these things called imperatives. These are the guidelines that move us through complexity, crisis, ambiguity. A lot of the same things that you’re facing. The number one Special Ops imperative that we live by,...