Accelus Insights:
The Leadership Narrative

Last week’s message suggested that you should be looking for a magic mirror to help you see who you are and how you can make the change you want to see. I hate to bust the fairy tale bubble but you are mature enough to take it. There is no...

Mirror, mirror on the wall… I am not who I see at all. This is not quite the fairy tale line* we all know.  In the fairy tale, the reflection gives the answer that is sought, for a period of time, and then the answer changes when true beauty is...

Highlight, underline, highlight, underline, dog-ear, dog-ear, dog-ear. Now, Discover Your Strengths is the most demarcated book in my bookshelves. Here’s why: my most commonly occurring pattern of thought, feeling or behavior is that focusing on strengths is the way to stimulate personal and group excellence. Nothing is more powerful for...

Over the past month I have addressed a few different subjects yet all had a common thread. Do you see how they are connected? Here are the links to check them out: Socrates is Still in Business Needs to be Known Getting Naked What Other People Think You might be...

At a recent dinner with a friend, she expressed that maybe after 20 plus years of working in her field perhaps she wanted to do something different.  That it would energize her and be fun to explore another side of life both professionally and personally.  But how would she reinvent...

So often in my work as a coach, I hear “what will people think” as an excuse for a client not doing what they truly want to do. It is not usually iterated that clearly at first; it takes the form of a different excuse. Yet, with a little probing,...