Sailing Along with Forgiveness

December 31st, 2019 by Kelly Kienzle

Forgiveness. How about if we close out 2019 with forgiveness?  Forgiveness washes away the hurt, anger and frustration we feel.  Forgiveness is a way of rising above what has happened to us.  Forgiveness is how we show we are greater and stronger than the roadblocks in our lives.  Forgiveness is

“I can read people.”

March 26th, 2015 by Kelly Kienzle

“I can read people.” I have recently (very recently) begun to think that is one of the more dangerous sentences we can say about ourselves. I had always thought proudly of this skill of mine. Yet when I began coaching and learned how to suspend assumptions

Listen Carefully

June 23rd, 2014 by Kelly Kienzle

How many workshops on listening and speaking have you attended in your career? How many books and articles have you read on how to be more effective in your communication skills? If the number is something greater than the number of vacation days you’ve had in

Do You Judge Behaviors or Intentions?

August 1st, 2013 by Kelly Kienzle

  We tend to judge ourselves based on our intentions and we judge others based on their behaviors.  Similarly, others judge themselves based on their intentions and they judge us based on our behaviors. Here’s how that plays out at work:  A colleague did not get