Tag Archives: mindfulness
February 28, 2012 – 10:14 am
At the third annual Wisdom 2.0 Conference in Silicon Valley last week, I had the wonderful opportunity to hear Dr. Dan Siegel, executive director of the Mindsight Institute and clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, give a talk on “Mindfulness and the Brain.” Dr. Siegel’s research shows that certain aspects of [...]
Also tagged behavior, collaboration, compassion, Dr. Daniel J. Siegel, empathy, insight, linkages, relationship, self-development, teamwork, understanding, Wisdom 2.0, work, workplace
October 18, 2011 – 12:29 pm
This past weekend, I attended a meeting sponsored by the Omega Institute to hear Thich Nhat Hanh speak. He’s the Vietnamese Buddhist monk who was nominated by Martin Luther King, Jr. for the Nobel Peace Prize, and is well known for his teachings and writings about the relationship between the individual’s ability to be at [...]
October 4, 2011 – 2:18 pm
I usually keep my work life and my religious life fairly discrete; I’m a big believer in the separation of church and state, and my religious beliefs and practices are really nobody’s business. But on the second day of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, I gave a d’var — a sort of sermonette — [...]
Early in my practice I did an operational assessment of a customer service center for a company where the turnover rate was going through the roof. One of the biggest lessons I learned was that humans bring all their emotions with them wherever they go. You can’t suppress one kind of feeling without suppressing all [...]
Last week, I made chicken soup again. If you read my earlier post about Fighting Fear with Chicken Soup, then you know what a big deal it was for me to make it the first time around. I couldn’t find my carefully written notes from the last time, but even so, it was easier this [...]
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Liz Alt Kislik is President of Liz Kislik Associates LLC. Liz brings more than two decades of customer-focused management experience to businesses of all sizes and segments. She helps managers address complex organizational problems, particularly in the areas of customer care and employee performance.
