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Just as the Lioness teaches her cubs to trust their natural instincts and gain independence, the Lioness Principle is about empowering individuals to lead instinctively from wherever they are.

Monday Morning Stretch: Tasks vs ResultsWe’ve probably all had at least one of these handed to us in our professional ca...
06/08/2026

Monday Morning Stretch: Tasks vs Results

We’ve probably all had at least one of these handed to us in our professional careers: a job description. It lists the duties we were hired to complete. A good one lists the tasks in detail and aids us in assuring we meet expectations.

However, even a well-written job description is only half the information we need to understand what it will take for us to truly excel in our positions, earn higher compensation, and be considered at the top of the list for promotions.

What few of us were handed was the second half of the equation: results.

Read more: https://www.lionspeak.net/tasks-vs-results/

Monday Morning Stretch: Complaining or Coaching?“Nobody wants to work hard anymore.”“There’s no more team loyalty.”“I ca...
06/01/2026

Monday Morning Stretch: Complaining or Coaching?

“Nobody wants to work hard anymore.”

“There’s no more team loyalty.”

“I can’t seem to get anyone to go the extra mile.”

“Why can’t my team be more self-motivated?”

These statements and many more like them are ones we hear from leaders and managers all the time. They are all important. They are critical to solve. They are all true for those who struggle with them.

But here’s the kicker: Complaining about something doesn’t change it. It might make you feel temporarily better, but in the end, it just isn’t that helpful.

What is helpful is understanding what your people need in order for them to give you what you want. And just like with technology, systems, and other business practices, things have changed over the decades. You may need to consider an upgrade to your methods.

Read more: https://www.lionspeak.net/complaining-or-coaching/

Monday Morning Stretch: Happy PeopleI’d describe my dad as one of the happiest people I know. He doesn’t live a perfect ...
05/18/2026

Monday Morning Stretch: Happy People

I’d describe my dad as one of the happiest people I know. He doesn’t live a perfect life, but he’s happy pretty much no matter what happens. I’ve always dreamed that I could learn to live my life so that people would describe me that way. I think it would be a great epitaph at the end of a life well lived.

Based on a boatload of research over the last few decades, we know that the more we feel genuinely happy, the more we enjoy better relationships, improved health, and more prosperity at work, not to mention just a better quality of life. So why are we surrounded by so many unhappy people?

You can feel a truly happy person when they walk in the room. They light up the atmosphere, not in an overbearing, attention-grabbing way but rather as a satisfied, relaxed, energetic force. I love the atmosphere that I can visibly create when I’m feeling truly happy inside. The trick is feeling this way even when things aren’t going your way.

Read more: https://www.lionspeak.net/music-monday-happy-people/

Monday Morning Stretch: Moving from Pressure to BeliefSomeone recently said to me, “I hate the word accountability becau...
05/11/2026

Monday Morning Stretch: Moving from Pressure to Belief

Someone recently said to me, “I hate the word accountability because it seems so punitive.” They preferred terms such as responsibility and commitment because, to them, they seemed more positive.

I found this sentiment interesting because it reveals an underlying belief that I encounter frequently as a leadership communication coach: the assumption that to obtain accountability from our people, we must state our expectations and hold their feet to the fire and not let off the pressure on them to achieve.

The truth is, what makes accountability seem hard is not the expectation for people to perform but rather the lack of faith that they can or will. When people worry about failing to meet expectations and believe failure will be a bad (or even fatal) mistake, they choke. An added layer of difficulty arises when we don’t help our people understand the “why” behind or at the core of their work.

Poor leaders put constant pressure on their people to perform, call them out when they come up short, or lay blame when they fail or make a mistake.

Read more: https://www.lionspeak.net/moving-from-pressure-to-belief/

If you’re a consultant, speaker, author, or coach in the dental space (or aspire to be), don’t miss all the connections,...
05/06/2026

If you’re a consultant, speaker, author, or coach in the dental space (or aspire to be), don’t miss all the connections, networking, learning, and best practices that will be shared at the 30th anniversary annual meeting of the Speaking Consulting Network in Santa Barbara, CA on June 1-3.

As a founding member of SCN, I’m honored to be interviewed on stage by SCN owner and industry guru, Ryan Vet, about my experience through the years with my SCN membership and a 40-year career as a dental industry coach and speaker.
https://speakingconsultingnetwork.com/our-events

Monday Morning Stretch: Acting LessonsMy kids were so impressed when they found out that I had been a cheerleader 3 out ...
05/04/2026

Monday Morning Stretch: Acting Lessons

My kids were so impressed when they found out that I had been a cheerleader 3 out of my 4 years in high school. It’s apparently a big deal when there are hundreds of kids in your class and thousands in the school, but when you have less than 50 students in your graduating class and only 8 try out for 6 spots on the cheerleading squad, well, you just don’t have to be all that good.

Don’t get me wrong though, it was a lot of fun and formed some of my fondest memories in high school, but not my most memorable one. That one had nothing to do with the essentially individual sport of cheerleading but rather occurred when I won a spot on a small competitive drama team in my senior year.

The newly formed drama team was going to compete for the first time in a sanctioned one-act play competition with other high schools in our division. There were only 10 on the entire team plus a drama coach (who, as it goes in small schools, was also our band teacher)—six actors and four support students helping with everything from costumes to curtains to set construction. The play was a touching short story called Goodbye to the Clown about a young girl whose father has died and who, in an effort to cope with her grief, has created an imaginary character, the clown.

Read more: https://www.lionspeak.net/acting-lessons/

Monday Morning Stretch: Be Here NowThere is absolutely NO END to it… the incessant distractions of the modern world – ce...
04/27/2026

Monday Morning Stretch: Be Here Now

There is absolutely NO END to it… the incessant distractions of the modern world – cell phones, social media, text messages, emails, voicemails, calendar reminders, streaming TV, to-do lists, Amazon deliveries, deadlines. As a result, we’ve become master multi-taskers, but we’ve also become flops at being 100% present in almost any situation. I swear some days I can talk on the phone, listen to music, load the dishwasher, jot notes, compose a blog post in my mind, brew a cup of tea, and flirt with my husband all at the exact same time.

Lately, I’ve been focusing on the opposite of multi-tasking, being singularly focused on this moment and the people in it. As a skilled and practiced multi-tasker, I’m far from perfect, but I’m getting better.

I read recently about a firm whose company mantra is “Be here now.”

Read more: https://www.lionspeak.net/be-here-now/

Monday Morning Stretch: Tip of the SpearYou’re waiting. You just wish it was different. You wish your teammate helped ou...
04/20/2026

Monday Morning Stretch: Tip of the Spear

You’re waiting. You just wish it was different. You wish your teammate helped out more. You wish the meetings accomplished more and were more fun. You wish you’d get a raise. You wish your office manager would let go of the one mistake that you made months ago. You wish your spouse was more romantic and spontaneous. You wish your team was more committed to the vision. You’re waiting.

And while you’re waiting, leaders are charging ahead, doing it anyway. Leaders don’t wait. Leaders go first, carving the way and showing it to others. They are what we call the “tip of the spear,”always doing the hard work of breaking the barriers and demonstrating what courage and leadership really looks like with their words and actions.

Read more: https://www.lionspeak.net/tip-of-the-spear/

Monday Morning Stretch: The Land of "Yes!"Jealousy doesn’t even begin to describe it.  I so wish I would have thought of...
04/13/2026

Monday Morning Stretch: The Land of "Yes!"

Jealousy doesn’t even begin to describe it. I so wish I would have thought of “The Land of Yes!” as the name for a company, blog, or even my personal homestead, but alas our friend’s brilliant daughter laid claim to it first for her farm-to-fork catering company. I simply adore how it sounds rolling off my tongue and all the possibilities that the name conjures in my mind. Darn it.

Anyway, today’s message is about the idea of living in and speaking from “The Land of Yes!” which is the parent idea for the concept of “both/and” vs. “either/or” in our leadership thinking. It showed up big time in my life one day. Let me explain…

Some people do their best thinking and get their brightest ideas in the shower, weeding their gardens, or floating in the pool. Mine come doing cardio—something about getting the blood flowing and the cobwebs cleaned out for me, I guess. One day, I was on the treadmill with my “Flow” playlist cranked way up, enjoying the usual flood of creative ideas and pleasing thoughts. I could almost smell the paella on the trip to Spain that Tom and I were planning. I could feel the sand under my feet on our business trip to Hawaii next month. But a nagging little image kept creeping into my pleasant travel planning. It was the haunting picture I’d seen on the news recently of an entire village in Africa who were literally starving to death due to famine and war.

Read more: https://www.lionspeak.net/the-land-of-yes/

Monday Morning Stretch: Power TalkingThere is an oft-quoted statistic published by a USC professor, Albert Mehrabian, wh...
04/06/2026

Monday Morning Stretch: Power Talking

There is an oft-quoted statistic published by a USC professor, Albert Mehrabian, which states that we communicate 55% of a message with our body language, 38% with our tone, pace, and pauses and only 8% with our actual word choice. As a student of communication, I find convincing evidence of this almost every day, but I believe it’s only relevant if there is a disconnect between our truth and our words. If there is an incongruency, the body language will trump the words every time. If there is total congruency between our body language, tone, and words… there is no issue of believability for the listener. But, there can still be big issues with understanding and impact.

Assuming that we’re speaking our truth and that our body language and tone lines up, the words we choose can make a big difference in the level of comprehension and influence that we actually have.

Read more: https://www.lionspeak.net/power-talking/

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