by Terri Klass | Aug 31, 2015 | Building Confidence, Career Development, Empowerment, Leadership Development, Management Development, Storytelling
If someone were to ask you about your childhood leadership, how would you answer? What lessons did you learn about leading when you were a child? Who influenced your leadership and why? Do you remember always being a leader or were there specific events or challenges...
by Terri Klass | Aug 17, 2015 | Building Trust, Collaborative Leadership, Compassion, Core Values, Empowerment, Leadership Brand, Storytelling
Listening to a manager in one of my workshops go on and on about how her team members are self-absorbed caught my attention. She threw out the adage, “There is no I in team” and sensed everyone was taking advantage of her good nature. The more I heard, the more I...
by Terri Klass | May 25, 2015 | Collaborative Leadership, Dealing With Crises, Empowerment, Leadership Development, Storytelling
This past weekend I visited the 911 Memorial Museum in lower Manhattan, NYC. Although I reside and work in the Metro-NYC area, I haven’t had a chance to see this precious site. I remember September 11th so vividly as do so many people in this part of the country. I...
by Terri Klass | May 11, 2015 | Customer Needs, Influential Leader, Leadership Brand, Leadership Development, Self-Promotion, Storytelling, strategic listening
Marketing has always been a challenge for me, although I am learning so many ways to overcome my fears. Sometimes when we get an obstacle stuck in our heads, it can take extra focus to jump over it. So what I have tried to do is not look at marketing as an...
by Terri Klass | Apr 20, 2015 | Collaborative Leadership, Empowerment, Influential Leader, Leadership Development, Storytelling
It all began as a group of leaders sharing their challenges and dreams on social media chats and hangouts. Whether we worked internally for organizations or consulted from the outside, one thing for sure was clear- we enjoyed learning from one other and our energy...
by Terri Klass | Mar 9, 2015 | Coaching, Empowerment, Influential Leader, Leadership Development, Storytelling
I am a great proponent of storytelling because narratives are transformative. As the writer of the story, we get an opportunity to take a deeper look at our actions and behaviors. As a reader of the anecdote, we peer into someone else’s journey and how they grew from...