How to Lead Others
Steps to Leading Others: *Work with Your Higher Power *Be You *Understand Your Boss *Collaborate with Your Colleagues *Know Your Stakeholders *Coach Your Staff It ALWAYS works; especially in this order.
The ABCs of R3 Leadership: B is for Bats#*t Crazy
Polish Proverb WE NEED YOUR HELP!!! We need your stories about crappy leadership! Why you ask? Because we value your thoughts and experiences. It has been my turn for a few months to write this segment for The ABCs of R3Leadership; B is for Batshit Crazy. When we chose this…
Here’s to Calm Partnerships
My writing partner, Paul M. Wood and I have been working weekly, for 3 years, on a Leadership book - The ABCs of R3Leadership. More about that on another post. This pic is of me and another work partner, Vangie Lopez. (I love partnering with others. The laughter and genius…
The ABCs of R3 Leadership; A is for Accountability: Baton or Bat? It’s the Accountable Leaders Who Make Sweet Music
ABCs: A is for Accountability As promised in our initial blog post - The ABCs of R3 Leadership - we, Paul M. Wood and Lori Gibson Washington, are writing about the ABCs of R3 Leadership; the A-Z of good and not-so-good leadership characteristics. Paul's first post of his satirical serial,…
The ABCs of R3 Leadership
It was August 2016. Lori Gibson-Washington and Paul M. Wood met celebrating a mutual friend's birthday. Unintentionally, we started talking about good and not-so-good leadership characteristics. We bonded over a mixture of Pinot Noir and tequila. (Yes, the 2 liquids were in the same glass. That's a story for another…
The Calming Coach – Brave Girls are Honest
The Calming Coach, aka, Gibson Washington Consulting, can help you go from brutal honesty to silky candor. So you might be saying "why should I care?" The Calming Coach says "Brave Girls calmly speak their truth and get their messages across" Did you know that brave doesn't always mean brutal? Especially…
Sugar/Salt: Call Your Confidante, She’s Disguised as a Life Coach
Sometimes you need a Life Coach, a Confidante, to check in with to distinguish "the salt from the sugar". How many times have you excitedly decided on your life's purpose? The sweetness, the sugar of your life. You tell a few people about your new purpose-driven sweetness. Your friends and…
The Story of the Calming Coach
On Good Friday 1996, I started a boutique consulting firm Gibson Washington Consulting. Our primary focus was to help leaders find their charisma-their own personal power. We also facilitated workshops on differences-in values, communications styles, cultural and ethnic backgrounds-and their relationship to conflict. We're still doing that AND on Good…
Building Trust and Calm in a World of Chaos
A Gentle Nudge Deserves a Wink, a Smile, or a Thank You! I love sending my clients gentle nudges. You know as in "nuhj" - "to push slightly or gently, especially with the elbow, to get someone's attention, prod someone into action..." vs. "noodge" - Yiddish for "persistently pester, annoy,…