by Becky Lemon, 12/4/2024 We all know a cake is created by mixing different ingredients together and baking it according to a recipe. If the cake you’re making comes out underdone, too dry, or lacking the flavor you desired, you can examine the ingredients and process you used to determine where you might make different … Continue reading Recognizing the Thought – Emotion – Action – Result Connection
Craft of Leadership: The Drips
Vestalia Hospitality's Craft of Leadership course was developed to explore our Leadership Essentials in a few different ways. First, we offer a "dump" of a lot of concentrated material about our leadership style, and we introduce folks to a few fundamental philosophies and tools that shape how we lead*. That context and foundation of learning … Continue reading Craft of Leadership: The Drips
High Performance Teams: Growing Awareness Through Assessments
When you’re on a high performance team, you know it. As a group, you feel an energized sense of synergy as you solve puzzles, set and achieve goals, and work through challenges, conflicts, or obstacles that get in the way of accomplishments or wellbeing. You experience motion, creativity, and growth, especially when the ride isn’t … Continue reading High Performance Teams: Growing Awareness Through Assessments
Trust Assessment Exercise
Trust is often felt as an intangible force between people or groups of people. We talk about building it, knowing when it's there or when it's broken, and yet we often don't share an understanding of the elements within trust that allow us to make it something we can act upon. There are many ways … Continue reading Trust Assessment Exercise
High Performance Team Model in Practice
The High Performance Team model is a visual representation of the core elements of team interaction that, when operating together in alignment, create conditions where individuals and the team itself thrives. This model, introduced to Vestalia Hospitality by Growing Edge Facilitation, supports our practice of shared, facilitative leadership because it offers a useful blueprint for … Continue reading High Performance Team Model in Practice
Connection as a Tool to Build Trust
by Becky Lemon, 2/14/2022 The magic that connection creates is far-reaching. Constantly achieving it satisfies our basic, instinctual human need for belonging and safety, making it easier for us to show up as our authentic selves and spend our energy building healthy relationships with one another. For teams it’s important to understand that trust, a … Continue reading Connection as a Tool to Build Trust
Choose Your Own Adventure: Response or Reaction?
Countless times throughout any given day we are holding onto thoughts that say “I need something that I don’t have” or “I am here in this situation or process, and I want to be there.” Maybe it’s about acquiring a new skill or increasing your proficiency with one you already have. Maybe it’s about changing … Continue reading Choose Your Own Adventure: Response or Reaction?
Finding the Solution Hidden Within
When individuals or teams have worked their way into a conflict, they are the only ones that can get out of it in a way that results in new understanding and increased well-being between them. Often though the people involved in the us vs. them or blame-game dynamic can't see the problem they share clearly … Continue reading Finding the Solution Hidden Within
Abbreviations to Live By, Part One: I.U.M.
We all want to get a little better at living our own lives, and for most of us, developing the necessary skills is hard work that we don't always make time for. If you can't take a class or dive deeply into a structured practice, where do you go for lessons that teach you how … Continue reading Abbreviations to Live By, Part One: I.U.M.
Happiness
Whether you've recently come into a boatload of unstructured free time, or you've become overwhelmed with more responsibilities, there's a good chance you're spending some time and mental energy taking stock of your life. Once your external needs for food, shelter, and safety have been secured, you'll start asking yourself some version of this basic … Continue reading Happiness
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