by Misti Burmeister | Oct 19, 2020 | Leadership, Provoke your Performance |
Fully consumed with excitement for my upcoming open water swim on a beautiful late September day, I rounded a curve on 695, just outside of Baltimore. Imagining the goose bumps from the frigid water engulfing my skin, I looked down at the temperature gauge on my car:...
by Misti Burmeister | Oct 5, 2020 | Leadership, Provoke your Performance |
Politics … a forbidden topic in many relationships, and one that can easily put a stop to new relationships. And yet, the topic is a gold mine for practicing one of the most important skills in business and life. A skill that, when strengthened, not only...
by Misti Burmeister | Sep 21, 2020 | Leadership, Provoke your Performance |
Fear is paralyzing… It stops us from bringing our full self to work. It increases tension, decreases collaboration, and wreaks havoc on progress/productivity. It doesn’t have to be that way! There is a simple (albeit, not necessarily easy) strategy to use these...
by Misti Burmeister | Sep 7, 2020 | Leadership, Provoke your Performance |
The opportunity is before us… Leadership is needed NOW more than ever. A senior vice president of HR shared about a meeting she had with her executive team yesterday… “Misti, everybody was sitting around the table looking at each other, unsure what to do....
by Misti Burmeister | Aug 24, 2020 | Leadership, Provoke your Performance |
With the golf club in my hands, I bent down ever-so-slightly to align myself with the ball. Five feet across his office floor, Tom laid down a trash basket, which I was aiming for. As I took shot after shot (missing nearly all of them… Hey, it’s just not my sport!),...
by Misti Burmeister | Aug 10, 2020 | Leadership, Provoke your Performance |
The moment is still etched in my mind. The sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach. The lump in my throat. My opinion didn’t matter. My degree wasn’t good enough. My experience was irrelevant. Remember to breathe, I told myself. Let me set the scene… It was...
