Joel Speaks
CONTENTS
Dealing With Grown Up Bullies
I was asked a question during a taping, “How do you deal with bullies?” This post is a way for me to provide a more substantive response to this sincere question than I did then. If this post “speaks” to you please do something. Bullying doesn’t just occur between children. It occurs in personal ways and in the workplace. In all circumstances, it is harmful, stressful, abusive, bad for ones health, counter-productive, violent and must be stopped. Bully: A person who is habitually cruel or overbearing, especially to smaller or...
read moreDecember’s Conversation on Leadership: Listen and Learn
One of the many takeaways from the 12/3/12 COL was the importance of people finding ways (pushing themselves) to work together. We can not do it all by ourselves, we can all benefit from support and “ambassadors”. We can tell or feel when something is missing or just not right and it sometimes takes someone from the outside, who we trust, to tell us what that might be. Another realization was how “certainty” limits opportunity. What is meant by this is that many of us have spent a lot of time categorizing conversations into themes that we are...
read moreTraveling for Business or Pleasure? “Flight Back!”
I read some useful tips and reminders in Costco.com’s Consumer Connection provided by consumer advocate David Horowitz. Because of the amount of time I spend on the road and likely you do too, I am repeating them here. There are more in the archives on Costco.com. Enter “Connection” at Online Edition then search “David Horowitz”. That is the source of the below questions to ask your airline representative before you need them: What types of in-airport vouchers do you offer in the event of a canceled or delayed...
read moreKick 2013 off in high gear, Conversation on Leadership is Back
Conversation On Leadership is back, and you are invited! Hosted at the The Living Room, a non-traditional meeting space that encourages creative thinking for small groups meetings in downtown Tempe Arizona, Dr. Joel Martin and Robin Postel of TLIO . December 03, 2013 Register Now Conversation On Leadership (COL) is a series of events bringing together entrepreneurs and corporate contributors to explore the meaning of leadership and how to step up the impact they can have about issues they care about deeply. But COL is more than an event: it...
read moreSpeaking on Transformational Leadership at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln
I was honored to be a keynote speaker at the 26th annual University of Nebraska’s Women In Educational Leadership Conference. Highlights of my keynote address follow with comments on transformational leadership and one family’s belief in the power of education. As every good leader knows, you must apologize for the wrongs that are done and I must sincerely apologize as a graduate of The Ohio State University to those of you who are from Nebraska for what happened when Ohio State played Nebraska. (The Ohio State Buckeyes were...
read moreSharon Lechter, Financial Literacy Guru Says “Pay Your Family First!”
Sharon Lechter has dedicated her life’s work to financial literacy. She has served on the Dean’s Council 100 of the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University and is a national spokesperson for the National CPAs Financial Literacy Commission. Sharon was also appointed to the President’s Advisory Council on Financial Literacy for both President Bush and President Obama in highlighting the need for financial literacy in our nation. Sharon Lechter, Positively Powerful Woman of 2012, says “Pay your family first”....
read moreRev. Sheriolyn Curry Lasley Answered The Call, Joyful Still
Rev. Sheriolyn Curry Lasley accepted the call to ministry in 2002, while serving at historic Tanner Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church. (Tanner Chapel in Phoenix is the oldest Black congregation in Arizona.) Rev. Curry Lasley held many positions of leadership at Tanner Chapel, including the Director of the Young People’s Division, Youth Minister, and Minister to Senior Adults. “Leave your father’s house and go to a land where I will show you…” in April 2006, she became the co-founder and Executive Minister of Tabernacle Community AME...
read moreDr. Michele Y. Halyard: Radiation Oncologist, A Vital Force of Energy And Strength
Dr. Michele Halyard on the path she chose: “As a child, my mother’s breast cancer impacted me significantly. I was only five when she was diagnosed, and I remember that she was gone from our home for several weeks undergoing treatment. At the time in medicine, doctors performed radical mastectomies regularly, meaning they even took the chest muscle wall. I didn’t completely understand what was happening to my mother because I was so young, but I instinctively knew that it impacted her significantly. I noticed how she would...
read moreBettie Spruill, Educational Leader, Master of Transformational Technologies
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. Romans 12:2 (KJV) To say that Bettie Spruill, CMEC, is an educational leader is true but this distinction in no way captures the true essence and power of her leadership. She’s a physically tiny woman that “shows up (and I mean that literally and figuratively) in the world” as a giant. Go toe-to-toe with her when she is your coach, your trainer, your keynote...
read moreCelebrate your life with a check up.
Do you have a concern that the _____ (fill in the blank) you’ve been feeling isn’t quite right? Have you been experiencing unusual tiredness? You’re feeling great and at the top of your game but has it been a while since you’ve had a physical exam (you know the kind where all of your ‘vitals’ are checked)? How’s your diet? What kinds of foods are you eating? Rushed food? That’s the kind you grab and shove into your mouth as you rush from this to that. Real vegetables and fruits or the french...
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