by Steven Fulmer | Sep 15, 2022 | Articles
Is your dysfunctional team stressing you out? You wouldn’t be the first. If it’s any consolation, it’s not as awful and hopeless as it (sometimes) might seem. The things that make teams dysfunctional are the things that make us human, and it’s important to remember...
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...
