Early in life, I feared blindness. Then Deuce came into my life. We were close to two miles from the road when Deuce, a sixteen-pound sheepdog lookalike chased a small animal across the road. He heard me coming through the woods after him. I ran nearly four mph with two other leashed up dogs. Deuce was faster. That’s when he lost an eye thinking he could outwit a truck and get back across the road to me before I scolded…
The future begins at the edge of your comfort zone. Have you ever read an article or post that hit home? Caused you to rethink how you were acting? Inspired you take action or change the course on which you were headed? Have you ever finished a novel and felt lighter and better when you finished it than when you first picked it up? If so, you know why I write, and why your voice is needed too. When I…
When we face unexpected challenges, we find out who we are. When I was in my 20s, my fiancé died in a plane crash a few days before marriage. Not long after that, my son died of an undiagnosed, inoperable heart condition. Before these two events, when I called my dad to wish him, “Happy Father’s Day,” I learned my healthy father had died from an unexpected heart attack. As you might expect, these triple tragedies left me reeling. The…
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go”. T.S. Eliot It takes courage to speak up. Especially when you speak to people who matter to you. Or to those who seem to hold all the power. It can be hard to voice your thoughts or needs when you see things differently than everyone else or when you fear what you say may fall on deaf ears. Here’s my belief. You win…
If you’ve found this blog after reading my articles and books, you already know what to expect. If this is your first visit, here’s what awaits you—real-life writing. That means I tackle human challenges, authentically and in-depth. I write authentically, from my heart, no holds barred. Hopefully, we’ll partner with each other. You’ll read what I write, and write your own thoughts, occasionally sharing them with me and the others who visit this blog. I hope what you read proves…
Solutions offers you strategies, insights, answers and revelations. Some are simple, others innovative and surprising and all ones that can change your work life for the better. Solutions offers you sixty of the best real-life dramas and enlightening answers from Dr. Lynne Curry's three decade weekly newspaper column run in multiple newspapers. Written by a successful management consultant and coach, Solutions offers you your personal workplace 411/911 written in Curry's warm, personal, enlightening and fun style. You Need a Solution…
Veteran management consultant and HR expert Dr. Lynne Curry provides business owners, leaders, and managers a complete roadmap for creating accountability in the workplace.Managing for Accountability: A Business Leader’s Toolbox contains everything business owners and managers need to hire, inspire, manage, and retain accountable, high performing, engaged employees who invest one hundred percent in their jobs.This practical guide offers field-tested tools, strategies, and proven tactics for locating, developing and managing motivated, engaged, committed employees focused on performance, productivity, and results.…
Navigating Conflict: Tools for Difficult Conversations is perfect for readers who want positive outcomes from personal, professional, and workplace challenges.From reading this powerful guidebook, you’ll gain:1. A step-by-step roadmap for handling conflict and tough and touchy situations2. Strategies for effectively handling yourself under fire3. Tools for dealing with toxic individuals, personality conflicts, office politics, and problematic family situations4. Field-tested skills, strategies, tools. and tactics for every type of conflict5. Assessment inventories and action steps they can use to assess and…
Bullies aren't limited to the playground. These days, they roam our offices and can be found everywhere from break rooms to boardrooms. They don't steal your lunch money, but they can make your work life a living hell - and even ruin your career.Whether the bully is a boss or a coworker...whether you're the target of manipulation, intimidation, verbal abuse, or deliberate humiliation, Beating the Workplace Bully will show you how to fight back. Filled with exercises, assessments, and real-life…
I’ve never harmed a living creature. I’ve never tied thread to a butterfly’s wings or pulled a daddy longlegs’ center from his wriggling legs.Thirty years ago, Ma gave birth to me on a rotting cloth cot strung up in a leaking tar paper shack in the Tennessee hill country. Two were born on our hill that night under a thunderstorm that bent trees to the ground as it rolled west from Mt. Juliet. There was only one midwife this far…
