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Why “One Size Fits All” Decision Training Fails
There is value in teaching and training leaders to become more effective in areas like decision-making, communication, delegation, negotiation, strategic planning, conflict resolution, emotional regulation, and execution. Organizations need these things. Teams function better when leaders can slow down enough to evaluate options, regulate reactions, ask better questions, and avoid making decisions from pure panic…
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What Happens when your Business is Operationally Efficient but Emotionally Flat?
I was listening today to a conversation around relevance and customer experience and I started to think about just how many businesses have become incredibly efficient at producing transactions while slowly losing their ability to produce feeling? There are businesses where everything technically works and yet the entire experience feels emotionally flat. Then there are…
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Don’t Volunteer yourself into Future Anxiety
In other words, don’t emotionally solve problems you think may occur in the future. We have all done this at one time or another. Something happens. We anticipate the problem. We immediately start solving. A problem becomes a prediction. What makes this difficult is that entrepreneurship does require anticipation. You cannot operate responsibly without thinking…
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Which is worse: ignoring symptoms or treating them as root cause
Organizational exhaustion comes from repeatedly solving problems that never fully go away. The names change. The people involved may change. The location where the strain appears may shift slightly. But underneath it all, there is often the uncomfortable feeling that the issue itself is somehow still alive, simply moving through different forms. A business misses…
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How to Go Down the Wrong Path Effectively
The interesting thing about a lot of businesses is that by the time someone external is brought in, the organization often already believes it knows what the problem is. The conversation may sound exploratory on the surface, but underneath it there is frequently an assumption that has already solidified emotionally, operationally, and sometimes politically long…
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What Does it Cost to Exist in the Wrong Environment
One of the quieter tragedies in life is how long human beings can survive in environments that are fundamentally wrong for them. Just survive…and survival is deceptive because from the outside it can still look functional. The person still shows up. Still produces. Still responds to emails. Still performs competence. Still keeps the business moving.…
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A technically successful intervention can still create strain elsewhere.
I had a dental appointment today. Regular procedure – a filling. The filling itself did not take very long. What took time was everything that came after. The repeated checking. The tiny adjustments. The recalibration of pressure. Bite down. Slide your jaw. How does that feel? Again. Again. Again. What my dentist was doing then…
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Money is not a Cure All for Engagement or Skill
There was a time when I believed that if people were paid enough, most organizational problems would settle themselves. I never thought that money was magical, per se, but to me, compensation felt like the most obvious lever. If someone was underperforming, perhaps they were underpaid. If morale was low, perhaps the salaries were not…
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Are You Building Your Business/Life Around the Wrong Story?
There is a difference between noticing what is broken and building a life around brokenness. I have been thinking about that distinction quite a bit lately because I am realizing how easy it is, especially when you are observant, perceptive, analytical, and deeply aware of patterns, to become someone who spends more time diagnosing reality…
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Daily Improvement Depends on Less Being More
My day started with errands. Not how I usually start my day but I decided to start there first because I needed to move a few items off of my list. I thought that I could start my day, once I returned to my office, except that I was mentally spent. So I took a…
Clarity BEFORE Execution. Structure BEFORE Speed
If you could better understand one thing about your business right now….
Most costly decisions begin with
an inaccurate understanding of the situation.
I help leaders understand what is actually happening before major decisions are made or
resources are invested in solving the wrong problem.
Giselle Hudson | Pre-Decision Diagnostic Advisor | Sensemaking for high-stakes business decisions 