Team Building

A big "thank you" to Team Dynamics Expert Whit Mitchell for his webinar presentation on what it takes to build a dynamic, elite and winning team. Whit shared his thinking and methodologies on three of the seven key traits that are found in every elite team - Talent, Trust and Coaching.  Read More

We often ask our clients the following questions: What one thing, if you did it extremely well, would make the greatest difference in creating a successful future for your business? So why aren't you doing it now? What are the obstacles? Read More

Jonathan, the president of a mid-sized university, invited me to observe one of his advisory board meetings because he said he was “stumped by the team dynamics going on with this group.”  Read More

We are very excited to “officially” introduce the Smart Assessment Tool™ (SAT), an affordable new way to deliver DISC throughout your entire organization.  Read More

Posted by Sean Gaffney, a former collegiate and professional soccer player. Along with Dr. Carol, Sean is also a principal of Six Dimension Sports Consulting.  Read More

I love language and words. Unfortunately, language is squishy and words are cheap.   As such, words and phrases tend to become cliches way more than they become proverbs.  Such is the case in business.  A few weeks ago, I tackled the term "Leadership".  Today, I'm going to take a stab at scrubbing the bullcrap off two common terms ...  Read More

The concept of attention has been defined as focused mental engagement on a particular item of information. Items come into our awareness, we attend to a particular item, and then we decide whether to act (Davenport & Beck 2001, p. 20). Read More

Normally, I blog about learning, training, knowledge management, etc. But in the current climate of business doldrums and fear of further decline, I hope you’ll indulge me as I wander into the mentality of poverty for a while. Bear with me. It will take four blog posts to get to the point of my ponderings. Read More

During my time in Shanghai, I visited a bamboo forest. In Chinese literature, the bamboo forest is often used as a metaphor on the way they think of business relationships.  Read More

Evan Lysacek may live in the three dimensional world but he skates and performs in Six Dimensions; the Six Dimensions of Sports Axiology. Lysacek's interview with Meredith Viera caught my attention because, as he answered questions after winning the gold, his words and phrases sounded like copy from a Sports Axiology Textbook. I don't know whether his coach, Frank Carroll, intentionally uses the axiology six dimensions, but if he does not, then through his extensive experience and intuition he put the formula for success in place. Read More