by Steven Fulmer | Sep 7, 2022 | Articles
You might have heard it said that the opposite of empathy is apathy. And that’s not wrong. But what often gets overlooked, what gets missed, is the third leg of the stool: sympathy. It’s important that, as leaders and change-makers, we understand all three — and the...
by Steven Fulmer | Aug 30, 2022 | Articles
One of my coaching clients recently shared with me about his difficulty forgiving a friend that just doesn’t want to talk and has a hard time communicating. And it got me thinking. Forgiveness is a crazy thing. Frankly, I don’t know that I have the wisdom or the...
by Steven Fulmer | Aug 23, 2022 | Articles
I work with a sheriff’s office that is partially unionized. The unionization process was a two-year ordeal for one particular office, and in the end, it was decided that the staff would unionize, but the senior supervisors would not. This created a lot of complexity...
by Steven Fulmer | Aug 11, 2022 | Articles
We are stuck in a system that says success is measured by promotion, growth, and money. And by most accounts, such advancements are a measure of success. But have you ever stopped to think about this paradigm of advancement and success? Merely measuring how successful...
by Steven Fulmer | Aug 4, 2022 | Articles
In my last blog post, you might have read what I had to say about The Power of Naming the Problem. I posited three key ideas: We often perceive a problem when the root issue is actually fear. We have trouble solving problems and fixing what’s broken because we can’t...
by Steven Fulmer | Jul 28, 2022 | Articles
When was the last time you stopped to actually name a problem? It’s a surprisingly hard thing to do, but it has to be done. We can’t solve a problem we can’t name. We can’t fix what we don’t understand is broken. A coaching client of mine came to me recently, worried...
by Steven Fulmer | Jul 25, 2022 | Articles
There’s an Achilles’ heel I encounter all too often with otherwise capable, take-charge leaders. It’s something I like to call the “how-do-we’s.” Howdowe do this? Howdowe solve that? Howdowe know when…? Howdowe plan for…? An old adage says, there’s never time...
by Steven Fulmer | Jul 19, 2022 | Articles
As a leader, have you ever felt like you aren’t getting the results you expected from the team you’re working with? Ever felt completely misunderstood? If there’s a disconnect between your expectations and reality, you’re not alone. Here’s a common scenario I’ve...
by Steven Fulmer | Jun 29, 2022 | Articles
We’ve all been there, right? There’s someone on the team who is upset. We can tell they are upset. They might even announce they’re upset. But they don’t want to talk about it. They don’t want to say why, and they don’t want to engage. They just want to be mad for a...
by Steven Fulmer | Jun 23, 2022 | Articles
Remember back in February, I shared with you that we were redoing the stairs in our house? It was an interesting project, because we had to wait until everyone was ready. You can’t be redoing stairs in a household with young children, or the elderly, or anyone else...
