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Teaming to Drive Organizational Change
By Teresa Ong At the League’s 2024 Innovations Conference, Chancellor Lee Lambert from Foothill-De Anza (FHDA) Community College District and…
Harmonizing Workplace Dynamics: The Transformative Power of Community Music-Making
By Nathan Bachofsky, M.Ed. Embracing community music-making offers a distinctive approach to nurturing a vibrant workplace culture. Beyond typical team-building…
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Unlocking Harmony: The Transformative Benefits of Workplace Mediation
By Nathan Bachofsky, M.Ed. In the dynamic landscape of today’s workplaces, conflicts are inevitable. Whether it’s a clash of personalities,…
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Your Team May Need a “Reset”: Recognizing the Need for Change
By Nathan Bachofsky, M.Ed. In the ever-evolving landscape of business and project management, it’s crucial for teams to adapt and…
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Nutrition in the Blue Zones
By Autumn Sisneros, MS, RD, LD, CDCES Blue Zones are regions of the world where people tend to live significantly…
Thunderbird’s Dynamic Leadership Model: Empowering School Leaders for Success
By Nathan Bachofsky, M.Ed. As school leaders, the responsibility to shape the educational landscape extends beyond the individual classroom. To…
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Disability Discrimination: Disabled People are “just People”!
by Marcie McCleary Wow, I was so excited! This was the first trip I’d taken in a LONG time! And…
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Moving Forward: Healing and Innovating Schools
Just the other day, I was sitting in a meeting with a team of teachers and administrators. The theme of…
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The Winding Road
It sounds so simple, but no one had ever told me: The road is winding and wide. I wasn’t aware…
Curb Your Complaining
by Dr. Carla Rotering “The only thing complaining does is convince other people that you are not in control.”–…
Sponsorship: A New Imperative For Leaders
by Dorothy Sisneros and Kevin Monaco Impact of the sponsorship Dorothy Sisneros Have you ever been a sponsor or…
Cultivating a Culture of Courage
As the world returns to in-person work and school, so many conversations are brought into the forefront of public debate.…
The Imposter Syndrome – How to shift your self-doubting thoughts
Yikes! Surely, someone is going to recognize I really am not that smart, that I have been lucky – in…
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Perfectionism – Gift or Curse?
Is pefectionism a gift or a curse? That depends. Our Thunderbird Leadership Consulting co-founder, Amy Steinbinder, reviews the concept.
To Develop Good Judgment…
Did you make any decisions for the new year? In our last blog Rory offered a reflective approach using four…
Reflections for a New Year
The New Year is a wonderful time of reflection, to think about where we’ve been, where we are and where…
Tip of the Month, December 2019 – Reflections II – TIPS from this year’s Summit
Jill began to highlight the events at this year’s Summit in her last post. I thought I’d format the second…
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Summit Reflections – Part 1
13th Annual Leadership Summit Reconstructing Leadership: Owning Our Power One participant described it this way: “A leadership spa for the…
Tip of the Month, November 2019 – Management Tips for Employees who Coast
Jill Bachman’s blog article last month addressed the idea of coasting at work from an employee perspective (click here to…
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Is it OK to Coast?
Fall has returned. In the breadbasket of the US midwest, it is the time after harvest, time to take a…
Tip of the Month, October 2019 – Tips on Repurposing….Leadership
Last month the Thunderbird blog featured Dr. Carla Rotering’s honor of a Healthcare Heroes Lifetime Achievement Award from the Phoenix…
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Celebrating Dr. Carla Rotering’s Health Care Heroes 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award
Please join me in celebrating Dr. Carla Rotering’s Health Care Heroes 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award bestowed by the Phoenix Business…
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Tip of the Month, September 2019 – Tips on the How of Staying or Going
Do you have an emergency communication plan and a “go” bag? These are the things people should think through and…
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Should I Stay or Should I Go?
I’ve got the Clash’s earworm stuck in my head. Should I stay or should I go If I go there…
Tip of the Month, August 2019 – Take it Apart to Rebuild Something Better: Tips for Deconstruction
This year’s Summit theme, Reconstructing Leadership: Owning Our Power, really appeals to me. I enjoy the challenge of putting things…
About This Year’s Leadership Summit – Reconstructing Leadership: Owning Our Power
I first became connected to Thunderbird Leadership through the Annual Leadership Summit. Unlike most leadership learning opportunities, it is not…
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Summer Professional Beach Read II – The Art of Gathering
What could be better for a Summer Professional Beach Read than The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why…
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A “Professional” Beach Read: Dare to Lead
What a treat it is to read a book about leadership and discover its robustness for areas of my life…
Tip of the Month, June 2019 – Tips on Passing the Torch
In this month’s blog (click here), Jill discussed how we pass on information, knowledge and wisdom when we are leaving…
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Passing the Torch
As I write this it is May and there are congratulatory cards sitting, ready to mail, on my desk. I…
Tip of the Month, May 2019 – Engagement Tips for the Individual
In our latest blog titled Engagement Survey, Oh My! read here, Rory (1) challenged the practice of ineffective annual engagement…
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Engagement Survey! Oh my!
Jill[1] and I were brainstorming about topics for this year’s blog posts. It helps to have a roadmap because the…
Tip of the Month, April 2019 – Coming Unglued in a Good Way
Rory Gilbert addressed a common and frustrating problem in last month’s blog, Getting Unstuck (read here.) I’ve had lots of…
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Getting Unstuck!
We all have issues in our lives, professional and personal, that seem to just persist on and on and never…
Tip of the Month, March 2019 – More on Managing Up
In Jill Bachman’s February Blog Post (link here), she referenced Mary Abbajay’s definition of managing up. “Managing up is about…
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Managing Up Is No Accident
From our inbox: Dear Thunderbird Leadership Consulting, My boss can be a difficult woman. She tells me one thing in…
Tip of the Month, February 2019 – Creating a Safe Environment
In this month’s blog post, “It’s Your Job!” we reviewed the book, Radical Candor[1], which emphasizes the importance of honest,…
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IT IS YOUR JOB!
In Kim Scott’s introduction to her book, Radical Candor[1], she describes a frantic time at work where she was confronted…
Lessons Learned – 2018
By: Rory Gilbert with much input from Carla Rotering! December is a wonderful time to reflect on how we have…
2018 Leadership Summit Summary – Being on Purpose
Wow! Where did the time go? Isn’t that how we feel about this time of year? Suddenly Halloween has come…
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Build Bridges – Structures We Sorely Need Right Now
We are living in a very difficult time where we are viewing the world from polar extremes. This becomes a…
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Leading intentionally – a life-long learning process
Guest contributor – Dr. Jan Gehler Dr. Jan Gehler retired from the Presidency of Scottsdale Community College in August of…
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The Resilient Nurse Leader Coaching Series: An Interview with Amy Steinbinder
The healthcare industry continues to be faced with so many interacting challenges: rising costs, unstable funding, sustaining an adequate, engaged…
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The Butterfly Effect
I was a philosophy major as an undergraduate and for my senior thesis I found myself wrestling with determinism v.…
When the Going Gets Rough: Turn to Wonder
We have been conditioned to believe in a direct link between action and reaction, cause and effect. Something happens (you…
Professional Beach Reads
I was watching the waves crashing on the beach this past Thanksgiving while talking to my son. We were talking…
Going it Alone?
In the world of work, it is important to appear capable and strong. As a leader, I have to make…
Why is Accountability So Hard?
What is the number one frustration for people managers? In my coaching work, I hear repeatedly that it is getting…
Power Tools at Work
I am passionate about creating fabulous work environments; ones that are highly productive, mission-focused, energizing, inclusive and innovative. What words…
Is it me, or is it them? Choosing the right intervention
The request comes in, “We are having a team retreat next month and I’d like you to come and provide…
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Lessons Learned
As we approach the end of the year, it is a wonderful time to reflect and take stock on what…
Reflections on Being of Service: Leadership Summit 2017
Thunderbird Leadership held its 11th Leadership Summit on Friday, November 10th. When the planning team convened, they discussed its proximity…
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Warriors for the Human Spirit
I had the pleasure of participating in the planning and presentation of a Leadership Intensive for Nurse Leaders October 19-21.…
The Heart of a Good Story: from Information to Meaning
When you reach for the newspaper or your favorite newsfeed, do you feel overwhelmed with data, facts and figures, and…
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Being of Service – the Stories That Inspire
On the Friday of Veteran’s Day Weekend, Thunderbird Leadership will be hosting its 11th Annual Leadership Summit. The notion of…
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The High Wire Act in Healthcare
In last month’s blog post, and from a consumer’s point of view, I explored concerns with disparities in healthcare based…
What Difference Does It Make?
On Christmas Day a few years ago, while juggling suitcases at the airport, I hooked one on a pole, tripped…
Unmet Expectations, Created in Isolation?
We sat in the driveway, my sister and I, each peering out our opposite windows, each wrapped in the disappointing…
Compassionate People Have the Best Boundaries
In her book, Rising Strong, Brené Brown shares a profound insight. She states, “very early on in my work I…
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Preparing Next Generation Leaders
Preparing Next Generation Leaders – can we change or just get out of the way? by Rory Gilbert, M.Ed., SPHR,…
Embracing Diversity in the Workplace
Why do I as a leader need to pay attention to diversity and inclusiveness in the workplace? There are so…
Pushing the Wild Frontier
When I was a youngster my parents would often tell me “Don’t get too big for your britches.” Indeed, my entire tiny village on the prairie would announce it regularly, accompanied by clicks of the tongue and a practiced scoff.
Employee Wellbeing and the Bottom Line
While it’s clear that happy, healthy employees are more effective and productive at work, it’s not always clear to employers what they can do to help set the stage for employee happiness and wellbeing. However, because people spend so much of their time at work, employers are in the ideal position to invest in their employees’ wellbeing.
Is Your Succession Plan Keeping You Up At Night?
Organizations are focusing on selecting, developing and retaining the next generation of leaders in order to survive and hopefully, thrive. Selecting and developing future leaders is an important task—and a big concern for many organizations.
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