Head Heart and Boots

Our Project Managers have always played an absolutely critical role for our companies. They often engage the projects with the most moving parts, longest exposure to the client relationship and often more vested parties. However as our teams grow, adapt and deploy more and more technology, ultimately the role of our Project Managers becomes even more impactful.   As challenging as the role is, it’s common for many of us to slip into a state of firefighting and develop a perspective that as long as we are running and gunning at full speed, then we

Fairly early in my restoration career, I was fortunate enough to have an Executive Coach and the positive impact of working with her was off the charts. Her perspective, insights, and consistent challenging reshaped many aspects of both my personal and professional life. Eventually, most of our key leaders were meeting with her on a consistent basis and in return it was helping us move the needle as an organization. The more I experienced the positive effects of her influence on myself and my leadership team, the more I started processing what it would

For a long time I thought the concept of a life coach was a bunch of woo woo nonsense, but a few years ago I downed the Kool-Aid and hired a guy out of Seattle. He had a psychology and religion degree, and primarily worked with business executives and pro soccer players.  On paper we had little in common, but I’d been following him on Facebook for a few months, and just had this undeniable sense that I could learn from him.  We had 12 sessions together, and what he taught me during our

Brandon and I had a chance to sit down with Jenny Vandehey, the SVP of culture and experience at First Onsite. She has such a fresh energy and perspective she brings to the industry and to First Onsite. Here’s a few takeaways from the chat- but be sure to listen to the full show next time you have some road time or a coffee in your hand.  Lead with “We” When you listen to the full episode, one of the things you might notice with Jenny, is how often she speaks with we language.

How many times have you heard someone flippantly say “no regrets” or see life hack lists on how to live without regrets? The current culture narrative implies that there is some proactive way to live a life that will ensure we no longer experience them. At the end of the day, not only is this not realistic, but living without any form of regret (or at least ignoring it) can actually have a profoundly negative impact on our lives.  In Dan Pink’s newest book, The Power Of Regret, he unpacks the real super power

Brandon and I had Eric Sprague and Larry Wilberton on the Head Heart & Boots show a couple weeks ago. Our intent was to learn more about their Morning Tech Meeting (soon to be SuperTech University), as we’d heard great things, and wanted to promote it to our clients and listeners. And we did just that, for about 10 minutes. The rest of our conversation largely centered around the topic of self-awareness and it’s transformational power.  The Harvard Business Review divides self awareness into two types, internal self awareness, and external self awareness. Internal