Wow! What a week that was! Most of last week in Seattle was lost due to a series of snow (Wednesday), ice (Thursday), rain (Friday), and wind (Saturday) storms. None the less, our sold-out Dreaming Your New Year 2012 event on Saturday was a success. We’re grateful to all who attended, especially those of you who flew in, dug out, and sailed over to the mainland […]
UPDATED Dec 15th, 2011: Be sure to see our newer post for additional event and registration details. We’re excited to announce the return of our “Dreaming Your New Year†workshop January 21st, 2012 to Seattle’s landmark Space Needle. DYNY2012 AT-A-GLANCE: This 1-day class prepares attendees to fulfill their dreams in the coming year. This four-part workshop, developed over 15 years, helps attendees craft their story about […]
So you’ve registered for our event Dreaming Your New Year 2011 at the Space Needle on January 15th, 2011. What do you do next? Here’s a few ideas to help you prepare: Collect together in a box and bring with you any artifacts from 2010 that represent: Your big wins: offer/promotion letters, awards, news clippings, etc Your cherished relationships (greeting cards, photographs, kid’s artwork, etc […]
We’re excited to announce the return of our annual “Dreaming Your New Year” workshop to Seattle’s landmark venue, the Space Needle. We launched this one-day workshop last January and have a few new things planned for this next on January 15th. AT-A-GLANCE: A 1-day class to launch your dreams for the New Year January 15th, 2010 from 9:30am – 3:30pm at the Space Needle Designed for co-workers, […]
Tonya Peck and I launched Locomotive Partners in the summer of 2009 to pursue organizational development (OD) work with clients, for the public, and the community of OD practitioners in the Pacific Northwest. One year later and that work continues to pick up steam (most recently with our move into a wonderfully open shared work-space at the Seattle architecture firm Bumgardner). We’re happy to report […]
We’ll update this blog-post over time with the books, videos, blogs, articles, and other resources that have influenced the 2-hour workshop “EQ for Entrepreneurs.” I delivered this to a class of graduate design students at Lake Washington Technical College. Resources available so far include: WORKSHOP MATERIALS: EQ for Entrepreneurs (PDF) TOOLS: The Awareness Wheel (PDF) The Waterline Model (PDF) ARTICLES: The Business Case for Emotional […]
Earlier this week, I met with graduate students in the design program at Lake Washington Technical Collage about Emotional Intelligence (EQ). My colleague Lindsay Andreotti teaches a class there on “Entrepreneurship and Design” for students in the second year of the program (about 35 people). This was a pretty exciting audience because the bulk of their instruction focuses on design principles and skills. This class […]