How prouty i•will transformed this participant’s perspective on life and leadership
Over and over at The Prouty Project, we come back to this Oliver Wendell Holmes quote: “A mind stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” prouty i•will has done that over the course of the pandemic, in humble and grand ways, which brings us to today. As we move […]
18 Financial Tips for a 22-Year-Old College Grad
18 Financial Tips for a 22-Year-Old College Grad: 1. Live below your means. If you make $40K a year, live on $34K (including taxes) and save the rest. If you’re making $4M a year, live on $3.4M (including taxes) and save the rest. 2. Do you really want / need that […]
Cultural Competence
How Conscious is Your Global Team? THE MOST EFFECTIVE leaders fall into two camps: Unconscious Competents and Conscious Competents. Unconscious Competents learn to adapt to ambiguous circumstances, read the invisible communication, and ask for or deliver information in a way that is non-threatening. Their style seems to elicit critical information that others could not […]
Building a Winning Team
Building a Global Winning Team Peter specializes in engaging business leaders and teams in transformational experiences which enhance their skills, systems, and processes for working better together. He is a multi-faceted experiential designer and facilitator who has delivered over 25 years of education-based adventure and innovative training to executives and management teams around the […]
Ten Things We Do to Create a Sustainable Work Life Balance
Kristin Jonason and I recently had 9 hours of “windshield time” driving to/from Norway, Iowa, to meet with a new client. One of the topics we were batting around as we drove down the “Avenue of the Saints” (the route from St. Paul, Minnesota, to St. Louis, Missouri), was sustainable work-life balance. Kristin […]
Chess Moves
Using Global Leadership Development to Facilitate More Effective Business Strategies When companies “go global,” they often make the mistake of implanting one system or policy into another culture or country. When they do, there’s a huge gap between mindsets that directly affects whether or not the global initiative will ever be successful. For example […]
3 Ways to Increase Employee Happiness and Well-being
The workforce has changed in many ways over the past year. Organizations learned how to adapt quickly to new norms and ways of working; they attempted to maintain strong personal connections as they worked virtually or in hybrid environments; they placed a higher priority on employee well-being. As a positive psychology practitioner with an interest […]
Leading the Business with Insight in the Midst of a Pandemic: Third in the Three Heart Series
These have been challenging times…2020 is over and done, and yet many of us are still trying to get wind in our sails for 2021. Either way, it has been a fascinating time to be a leader. As we have continued our relationships with business leaders across all our client groups, a couple of strong […]
My Life in Full: Prouty Book Review
My Life in Full: Work, Family, & Our Future by Indra Nooyi Here are the top 15 “gold nuggets” from Indra’s book that jumped out at me: 1. Big Change “Roger Enrico (former CEO of PepsiCo) approach, and his claim to fame in PepsiCo, was that he made big changes to big […]
Leading Others with Heart and Soul in Challenging Times
I have had the honor of serving on the Board of Trustees at the Voyageur Outward Bound School, the preeminent outdoor leadership organization. The other day I watched as Jack Lee, the Executive Director, led a Zoom video meeting with the board and members of the staff. His letters each week throughout the COVID-19 crisis […]