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Take-aways: My sub-conscious defense mechanisms kept people at a distance I was largely unaware of how I was affecting people Openness is the greatest simplifier – when I am open the Human Element way I took Human Element (HE) in 2009, when I was 3 years into my NASA career as an organizational psychologist. I Read More

Self-Acceptance Podcast Show Notes In this episode, hear from the founder of Key Talent Solutions, Laura Gallaher, how she came to accept herself and lead more authentically.

For a long time, I have denied being a perfectionist. There were so many things I could point to about me, my work, and my life, that were not perfect – so clearly…. I’m not a perfectionist. But I started to accept that I did have crazy, impossibly high standards for myself. The things that Read More

Performance appraisal processes fail to achieve the goal of improving performance because they don’t align with how the human brain works! Laura discusses how to actually improve performance and overcome resistance to changing the appraisal process.

Why, when it feels like you have the weight of the world on your shoulders, is it the right time to stop and spend a few minutes improving your work relationships with people? I’ll tell you why. As humans, we all have our defenses that get in the way of effective collaboration. And these defenses Read More

Change is hard. People resist change. Or so they say. But if you won $10M in the lottery tomorrow, you probably wouldn’t resist that. We don’t resist change. We resist loss. Because loss is painful. It registers in the brain the same way physical pain does.

Stress gets a bad rap….but the truth is we need stress to perform. The key is finding the right level and type of stress to maximize our individual performance. In this talk, learn about a variety of strategies that you can use to manage and channel your stress into productive energy. This is a talk Read More

The Way We Usually Think (and Feel) I was having lunch with a group of people recently, and one woman (I’ll call her Jane) was talking about her experience at her doctor’s office. She has lived with chronic pain for many years, and she was describing one of her strategies to help her cope. “I Read More

I’ve had a few profound experiences in my life. Some of them were profound on levels that I didn’t understand until much later. I have always been a big fan of the idea of looking for the silver lining in a tough situation, or walking away with a lesson learned. I have not always asked Read More

“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.” – Michael Jordan Out of the many historical moments in sports history, one of the most famous examples to act as a demonstration of teamwork is the 1992 USA Men’s Olympic Basketball Team, or also known as the Dream Team. Not only did the Dream Team Read More