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Hello from the City of Angels. What a great day today at the Origins Conference in Los Angeles. I was elated to touch base with many of my friends who I only get to see once in a while:
Sam Radford from England -
Alex McManus from points unknown
Eric Bryant - author of “Peppermint Filled […]
I talk a lot about StrengthsFinder on this blog and your strengths. Your strengths are made up of your themes, which are groupings of talents. These talents are natural thoughts, feelings, or behaviors that can be productively applied. Those are all innate abilities that you have or you don’t have. But what about skills? Skills […]
I am on the tail end of a busy weekend. Yesterday I worked with the Bethel University Women’s Volleyball team. We worked on who they were as a group and how they could use what they are good at the maximize their potential. It was a lot of fun and lasted most of the day. […]
This is a draft of a new article my friend Heather Pieper-Olson and I are working on for the Gallup StrengthsQuest e-newsletter - any thoughts or comments are greatly appreciated. JVD
We will never coach the same way again. After a combined 20+ years of coaching, the way we motivate players, work with our co-coaches, […]
This week has been a busier week than I anticipated it being. This is not unusual, but the content of the week was somewhat surprising, maybe not the content so much but the quantity. Let me explain. Coming into this week I knew I was going to be speaking on / leading people through their […]
Do you have a ‘can do’ attitude? I do sometimes. Sometimes I have a ‘no way’ attitude. This usually happens when I come up against something that is new or where I do not have great competency in the area. I know this about myself and it is something I am working on
Who are you? Who am I? This is a question people, including myself, are constantly pondering throughout their lives and as soon as they can think about these things all the way to when they are so old they may not be able to think about them anymore.
Think about it - […]
Yesterday I realized that I am fully in transition between College Volleyball at St. Kates and starting the Elite Junior Olympic Club Volleyball at Minnesota Select. If you are not familiar, Junior Olympic Volleyball is a club sport that lets volleyball players from ages 12-18 play volleyball at a high level once their middle or […]
I just finished a new book by the Gallup organization called “Vital Friends.” This book was a good quick read reminding all of us that we need friends to really like where we work. I have been in environments that do not lend themselves to friendships, even prohibiting people from being friends at […]
Today I had the privelege of working with the Regional Directors for Youthworks! Youthworks is a great agency that sets up trips for people to go on to help other people. E.G. setting up trips for people to go help out the hurricane victims in New Orleans.
I worked with this team […]