Arbinger Institute's Blog, page 19

How Blind Leaders Create Problem Teams

How often do we feel disappointed in others’ performance or behavior? As leaders, it’s our responsibility to take action to mend unproductive relationships. With Arbinger I’ve learned to ask myself two questions when I find myself thinking like this. “Am I curiously seeking and hearing the other person’s opinion with the intention of understanding?” “How […]

Success Comes from Focusing on Impact, Not Outcome

The romance of goal-setting captures our attention at least once a year (looking at you, New Years). We want to run marathons, we want to write books, we want to fall in love, we want to get in shape—we want to follow through on our commitments and reach the goals we’ve set for ourselves, but […]

What Archery Taught Me About Goal Setting

I remember it was a particularly humid summer. In the afternoons, I would make my way down a forested path to a field with hay bales on one end, each painted with bright white, yellow, red and blue targets. I recall the tension of the bow as I’d raise my cocked arm to my side […]

Without Mindset, Solutions to Organizational Issues Fail

Organizations, more than ever, are facing an increasing number of problems. There are people problems, systemic inefficiencies, leadership and cultural roadblocks to name a few. On the surface these problems appear to be diverse and seem to require very different solutions, however at Arbinger we have found that there is but a single source, and […]

Hawaii University Adopts Arbinger as Peacebuilding Curriculum

An ocean away from Arbinger’s headquarters exists a university filled with students from over 75 different nations. Unlike other institutions, at this university both students and staff members have the opportunity to study Arbinger material. The McKay Center for Intercultural Understanding runs a program on campus that introduces Arbinger concepts in the Center’s preliminary classes. […]

Arbinger in Education: A Professor’s Perspective

Ellis M. Bush Jr., Lecturer of Leadership Studies in Troy University’s Institute for Leadership Development, came in contact with Arbinger materials when he saw Leadership and Self-Deception listed as one of the Top 10 Books leaders should be reading on a leadership blog. For the past four years, he has incorporated Arbinger into the curriculum […]

Leading Employees to Develop True Change and Growth

One of the most critical aspects of leadership is helping employees grow and change in order to achieve better results. Leaders are often seeking to be better able to reach the various results that they are striving for. These leaders intuit that they are failing at some level. Leaders often lack opportunities to talk about these […]

Three Keys to Successful Communication

Whether at work, at home, or at school, communication plays a significant role in our ability to accomplish our objectives. More often than we’d like to admit, however, miscommunication occurs. Take, for example, missed deadlines, upset family members, or even the wrong food in a takeout order. If there was ever a place miscommunication could […]

How to Build an Olympic Team In Your Office

Rio 2016 has blazed across international headlines this summer, drawing a massive global audience for the Summer Olympic games. As the athletic elites of the world have gathered to compete, we stopped to consider what makes these competitions different from other world-class races—and we landed on impact. “In the Olympics it is not just about […]

Quit “Playing Nice”

There’s a misunderstanding that arises from time to time with our work. After being exposed to Arbinger’s fundamental principle that we must strive to see people as people, we often hear something along the lines of, “So what you’re saying is that I’m just supposed to be nice to everyone?” If an individual has adopted […]