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Be Successful, Be Human, Say “Sorry”

Patrick Lencioni, author of the business best seller, The Advantage, gives the key to success for business owners and members alike: Organizational Health. What does that look like? What does health even mean in the context of successful…
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Portrait of a Peacemaker– Brene Brown

  “Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.  Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change” In 2010 Brene Brown touched the TedTalk world with one word: vulnerability. To take Brown’s…
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Finding Your Strengths and Sticking to Them

In my final months as a college student, I remember being overwhelmed with the vast quantity of professional vocabulary that remained, although relevant and important, daunting and unfamiliar. We, the newly graduated, the naïve bunch who thought…
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Introducing Our New Community Storyteller

Erin Navaro As a Cincinnati native, I’ve done a poor job staying close to my roots…geographically, that is. My English and Peace and Justice degrees from Regis University led me to a two-year commitment with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps,…
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Healing Holds

After a long day we often feel the weight of the world pulling us down, both body and mind. It can be hard to recuperate from this heavy feeling of stress and anxiety. However, with self care and rejuvenation you can heal your body, mind and…
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Level 5 Leaders

People often believe that transforming an organization requires a leader with an extreme personality, an egocentric individual who likes to take charge. Author and leadership expert, Jim Collins would tend to disagree. In his book “Good…
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Developing Leaders: Tips and Tricks

Are people born as leaders or can they become one? Some would argue that leadership is in ones blood, you either have it or you don’t. We would argue that it is not a combination of qualities that make a leader, but a combination of actions.…
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Acknowledging Our Biases

All of us are biased. In fact, says Rachael Frame, occupational psychologist at Work Group, “you’re not a human being if you’re not naturally biased in some way.” Most of us do not recognize our biases and therefore make judgments based…

Extending Peace to the Grassroots

From the early 1970’s to the mid 1990’s Northern Ireland was the site of bitter conflict between those struggling for reunification with the rest of Ireland and those wanting the region to remain a part of the United Kingdom. The Irish-British…
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Communication ABC’s

Effective Communication Communication seems like it should be simple, however when not done well, the result is often misunderstanding and conflict. Communication is not just talking, it is an exchange of symbols, all of which are open…
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IT2019: Bridging the IT Divide

The School of Information Technology (SoIT) at the University of Cincinnati was accustom to change. SoIt was often divided, tracing their roots to several computing technology programs offered across three colleges. However, in the fall of 2004,…