by Pam Hernandez | Jun 15, 2022 | Coaching, Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Coaching, Personal Growth, Physician's Academy, Positive Psychology
When I was an executive at an insurance company, I read the following: “Leadership is as much about who you are as what you do.” I firmly believed this sentiment, but most of the leadership development I received throughout my corporate career focused on the “doing”...
by Pam Hernandez | Sep 2, 2019 | Leadership, Personal Growth, Positive Psychology
There’s an old joke that goes like this: How do you catch an elephant? You’ll need a pair of binoculars, some tweezers, and a milk bottle (shows how old this joke is that it contains a milk bottle). Hide in the bushes and wait for an elephant to come by. Look at the...
by Pam Hernandez | Aug 14, 2019 | Assessments, Coaching, Front Page, Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Coaching, Positive Psychology, The Leadership Circle
If you don’t see it, it will manage you. If you do see it, you can manage it. I read a statistic recently that most people will have a bad boss for approximately 80% of their career. I can guarantee that those 80% of “bad” bosses don’t think they’re bad bosses. So,...
by Pam Hernandez | May 1, 2019 | Book Reviews, Coaching, Front Page, Leadership, Leadership Coaching, Personal Growth, Positive Psychology, Uncategorized
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I read a lot about leadership. A lot! Every leadership blog or website or book...
by Pam Hernandez | Oct 19, 2018 | Book Reviews, Front Page, Positive Psychology
On my Kindle… In the late 90’s, I was in a leadership class and was asked to write about my philosophy of leadership. I said this: “I believe that people want to do good work. I believe that people want to get meaning from their work, to make a valuable...
by Pam Hernandez | Aug 28, 2018 | Career, Leadership Coaching, Personal Growth, Positive Psychology, Self Acceptance, self confidence, workshops
Coming from a family of teachers and having been one myself, I always heard the quote putting down teaching as a job people did when they couldn’t do anything else. “Those who can do – those who can’t teach.” So when I saw the above quote in this week’s New York...
