If you’re anything like me, you started your business with a strong sense of purpose. A clear vision of the culture you wanted to create. Your own values and morals are hard-coded into your business.

Working as part of a team of coaches means coming together to align around shared values to ensure the group’s efforts will be cohesive and effective. While it’s essential to recognize each coach’s ...

Beginning in February, UAB Human Resources Learning & Development will launch a program series that illustrates how the new UAB Shared Values: We CARE apply to the everyday work of the UAB community.

Before a big, make-or-break presentation to shareholders, a rising employee in Silicon Valley was feeling nervous. Although her career was going well, it was still difficult to make it in a ...

Early in my career, a colleague and I made a shared commitment one summer to eat healthier. Salads. Smoothies. The full routine. Like many well-intentioned plans, our discipline began to fade after a ...

In a recent coaching session, my client “John” rattled off his weekly achievements, almost as if I were checking boxes on a scorecard. When he finished, I asked, “Is your definition of success making ...

This is Part 4 of a four-part series exploring how the brain generates meaning. In Parts 1, 2, and 3 of this series, I traced meaning from biological significance through neural mechanisms to symbolic ...

Much has been made of the power of habit. We’re encouraged to make healthy choices our default and to understand the way that the brain sets certain tasks, such as our morning commute, on autopilot to ...