by Misti Burmeister | Aug 3, 2014 | Leadership |
Miss part 1 or 2 of this story? Click here to read it “It’s okay, I’m okay. Big fish – big water,” I said out loud to myself. As I started to calm, I got the courage to see if it was still there, and it was! Chanting ensued, until Yvette took her paddle, poked it...
by Misti Burmeister | Aug 2, 2014 | Leadership |
Miss part 1 of this? Click here to read it While I was prepared for my mom to throw a few bucks in the hat, I wasn’t ready for the result: $500 in 48 hours. Relief! The next day, in the pool with my new friend, Caroline, who I got to know after swimming into...
by Misti Burmeister | Aug 1, 2014 | Leadership |
Has anyone ever laughed at you when you’ve tried something new? When I got her text message at 930am, I laughed, as I remembered feeling as though I might drown just fifteen years before. Wanting to be the cool kid at nineteen, I went to get my lifeguard...
by Misti Burmeister | Aug 1, 2014 | Leadership |
“If you can assume, in the moment, that the naysayer actually means well, you can respond with information that may be of help to him or her.”— Misti Burmeister After spending four days in San Diego with a bunch of happy people – a group of roughly...
by Misti Burmeister | Jul 23, 2014 | Leadership |
“When your team is having fun, they’ll have greater access to the resources inside their heads to creatively solve problems.” — Misti Burmeister Fifteen years ago, I strolled into the pool area at my university, prepared to walk out with my lifeguard certification....
by Misti Burmeister | Jul 16, 2014 | Leadership |
“When you tolerate mediocrity in yourself, you tolerate it in others.” — Misti Burmeister My neighbor, Jane, stopped by to get my advice on an employee issue. The problem is her new assistant Linda, who comes to work whenever she feels like it. “She’s...
