For so many businesses, one of the potentially brutal but high-octane upsides of this pandemic is that everything is on the table. It’s a time when we strip it all down to the essentials, and get Real. With fresh focus and rational fear, leaders and their workforces worldwide are asking the most fundamental [...]
Use the Real Deal, to Hire the real deal. Who says you can’t produce your brightest results—improve productivity, engagement, performance, innovation, and enjoyment— during the darkest times? Sure, the new world of work is rife with challenges and opportunities. Some people Quit, most Camp, and a rare few Climb. There’s one tool that can help [...]
So, how enthralled, engaged, and energized was everyone on your last video call or webinar? Did you look at those faces? How can you, or anyone, reignite virtually any virtual team? The team mojo sinkhole happened so fast. Isn’t it just insane? What started as the hottest trend (“Zoom Boom!”), has, in a matter of [...]
Relationships. Connections. Values. Hiring. Onboarding. Performance management. Family. Teambuilding.The moment the Real Deal became, well, the real deal to me, was when one of the top five global insurance companies pulled the trigger, providing one Real Deal deck to every single employee—70,000 individuals across five continents—as a way to fuel a deep cultural upgrade. They [...]
"I just ache. (Pause. Breath.) I ache for my team, my family, my friends...for everyone!" This was the tearful response of a beloved colleague, client, and now friend, when asked "So tell me honestly, how're you doing these days?" I sure feel it. Don't you? For many of us, the hardest part of this [...]
Right now, and for the past several months, the majority of the world has been in the period of reactive adaptability. This means that most of us adapt either reluctantly or compliantly. We go along with various changes in our situation and related policy/procedures, because we have to. But there is a higher opportunity. A [...]
Grit, according to the thought leader and social scientist Dr. Paul G. Stoltz, is the “capacity to dig deep, to do whatever it takes” to achieve one’s goals. Understanding how to strengthen and deploy grit has been central to Stoltz’s life’s work. In 1987, he founded Peak Learning, Inc., a consultancy that has worked [...]
Introducing our new Alchemy Series, presented by Wells Fargo and Prudential. Our first guest is Dr. Paul G. Stoltz Listen Now
My eyes welled up with tears, unexpectedly, last night when I saw the faces of the roughly 500 people, across six continents, who were joining me for my live webinar on “PEAK Adaptability.” See, I had read their pre-session survey results, and people reported that, on average, for 91% of their days they suffered a [...]
Teachers face a barrage of challenges in their daily life. Aside from doing their individualized educational programs, administrative tasks, and activities, they also have a responsibility to cater to the physical and moral needs of the students. The role of the teacher has undergone tremendous change. Introduction to the computer has brought a revolution in [...]
