Tremendous Tracey
Seasons of Leadership
“To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under Heaven.” Ecclesiastes 3:1
Perhaps it’s the crispness in the air or the dwindli...
The Power of Observation: Learning in the Strangest of Places
I have a reputation for having tremendous experiences when traveling. Thank goodness for that because I’ve been traveling quite a bit lately. As ma...
Keeping the Leadership Light Burning Bright: Tips for Inner Inspiration & Motivation
My doctoral classes are back in full swing and one of my classes is Teaching and Learning: Theory and Practice. One of our texts is Parker Palmer’s...
What I Did on My Summer Vacation by Tracey C. Jones
This week, millions of youngsters are heading back to school. One of the highlights of this rite of passage is the chance to relay to your teacher ...
The Elusive Keys: Five Encouragements for Venturing Beyond Your Comfort Zone
We’ve all been there. The moment when you realize that you’ve reached a plateau. You’ve checked off the mastery of every skill on your profession...
What If You Didn’t Have a Safety Net? Learning to Lean Toward Opportunity
At its simplest, a net is a series of ropes and knots bound together in such a manner as to create an effective support structure. As a metaphor fo...
Bring It On! Why Avoiding Challenge is the Fastest Route To Stagnation
Challenge. Do you suffer through it? Do you deny it? Do you curse it? Do you run from it? Or do you experience it?
You cannot build a tremendous li...
Crisis Moments: Support Comes in Many Different Disguises
A fellow was stuck on his rooftop in a flood. He was praying to God for help. Soon a man in a rowboat came by and the fellow shouted to the man on ...
Passing the Baton: Three Steps to Developing Your Mentee Into A Mentor
I have always been a huge proponent of term limits, long before all of the current political discussion. My time in the military taught me the fine...
Try Three Times: When to Show Initiative & When to Ask for Help
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. But what do you do after that? Should we follow the mantra of my childhood hero, Curly Howard, who s...
The Mentoring Mudslide: How to Offer Guidance Without Slipping Into Doing It For Them
One of the hardest things to discern in leadership is if you are truly helping someone or enabling them. My father used to say you can lead a horse...
What Makes A Mentor? Six Steps to Getting Started
I’ve spent so much time speaking with reporters lately about bully bosses, unethical CEO’s, and unhappiness at work, that it’s time to talk about s...
Born to Lead: Encouraging Your Standouts
Where would we be without our A-Team? We’d be nowhere, that’s where. You can’t get any kind of traction without standouts. But so often we miss opp...
When Your Uber goes Under
When I was stationed in Germany I heard the word Über for the first time. It denotes an outstanding or supreme person or thing, kind of like tremen...
Building a Better Team:How to Bridge the Chasm Between Extroverts and Introverts
During my first week as a Project Manager at a Security firm, I attended a job orientation. The speaker began the briefing with the following jok...
