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Character Strengths Matter
What are the elements of good character? The Values in Action (VIA) project identified 24 qualities such as creative, authentic, loving, forgiving, kind, persistent, prudent, and brave, calling them character strengths. Character strengths are elements of good character valued across time and around the world.
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Don’t Listen to Your Emotions
I was on my way this morning – VERY early – to NYC to meet up with a coaching company I have worked with for

How To Nail Your First Work From Home Performance Review
Covid-19 thrust many workers into remote positions, requiring a different skill set than the face-to-face working conditions they’re used to. Job performance reviews have always

Do You REALLY Want to Hike That Mountain? Or: the Dangers of Overweening Optimism
I had the good fortune of working in Nairobi, Kenya this year. It had been 15 years since I have traveled to that beautiful country

What I Learned from First Ladies
I’ve always been fascinated with First Ladies. I wrote my first solo show about Eleanor Roosevelt and to this day remember one of her best

How to Positively Transform Your Organization
Appreciative Inquiry always works. Always. It works to a different extent depending on how many of the success factors are there, but as I tell

How to Get Set for an Appreciative Inquiry Summit
I’ve run some more AI Summits since writing about this (you can read my initial post here) and wanted to add some key points. Make

PBDC’s First Certification a Success!
It’s been a little over a year since we hosted the Shift Positive 360 training in Washington, DC. I’ve now had the chance to work

Foundations of Well-Being
I wanted to tell you about a yearlong, online program that changed thousands of lives last year—The Foundations of Well-Being. In this guided, step-by-step program,