Gayle LaSalle
MS
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Personal Leadership Expert
Gayle LaSalle Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Personal Development
- Career Focus
- Speaker, Author, Coach
- Affiliation
- Albany Colonie Chamber of Commerce, Society of Human Resource Management, Empire State College, SUNY Albany,
As president and owner of Living Lily - Division of LaSalle Consulting and Training, I'm a professional trainer, teacher and former clinician, holding a BS in Psychology and MS in Education. I spent many years as a direct care counselor. For the past 20 years, I've taught various counseling and psychology, at the college level. As an author, trainer and public speaker, it is my goal, my mission and my passion to help other's realize their ability to make choices and allow themselves to thrive rather than simply survive.
Making choices is a fact of life and in my life it has been a constant fact. As a single mother I had to make many life choices based on priorities as well as financial considerations. This included personal and career choices. In more recent years, I've had experiences that required me to evaluate and re-evaluate my values and future.
I have learned through these experiences as well as working as a professional counselor, that even when life does not offer us our first choice, there are still choices. By exploring our choices and making the one best for ourselves we become empowered. Life, jobs, relationships, finances all become choices rather than happenstance. This seems like common sense but is often difficult to incorporate into our daily thinking. Through speaking, training and personal coaching it is my goal to help others realize their ability to make choices and allow themselves to thrive rather than simply survive.
I recently self-published my first book: Pearls From My Tante - Life lessons you won't learn in the classroom. (c)
Workshops developed and delivered:
- I'm the Boss of Me - Becoming the leader in your own life
- Kick Start Your Goals - Turning intentions into actions
- Are You Leading Your Life or Following it Around: Get off the gerbil wheel and take charge
- Challenge with Class
- Work-Life Balance
- Goal Setting/ Personal or Business
- Adapting to Change/ Personal or Business
- Managing Personalities - Getting the most out of even the most difficult employee/co-worker/boss, etc.
- Strength Based Feedback for Managers
- Training Managers to Train
- Survivor's Guilt - Managing morale and productivity in the face of layoffs.
Past Clients
- NewYork State Employee Assistance Program
- American Society of Training and Development
- Downtown Women's Club - NYC Chapter
- E-Women's Network - National Conference
- E-Women's - Local Chapters
- NYS Drug Court Conference
- International Association of Adminstrative Professionals
- NYS Department of Accountability
Gayle LaSalle Books
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SelfGrowth articles and saved writing connected to this expert.
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Endings and Beginnings
“The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.” IVY BAKER PRIEST One year ends and another begins. It’s the way of the world. And it’s the way of our life. And, as always, we have choices as to how we view both the end and the beginning. Are you looking back or are you looking forward? It’s important to take stock. In looking back on the past year, there may have been things that ended, for the good or bad. Perhaps it was a job or a friendship or even the loss of a loved one.
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New Etiquette or Just Plain Laziness?
Perhaps I’m feeling a bit sensitive to this topic at the moment, as I recently had a holiday party at my home. A party to which numerous people did not RSVP and some who responded positively, didn’t attend – with no apology or explanation. But, my thoughts did not start with this event. I’ve been noticing a lack of etiquette and general consideration for some time now. Apparently, I’m not alone. In talking with friends, colleagues and doing some web searches, it seems this lack of social graces has become chronic.
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If Being Ambitious Makes Me a Bitch – Please Capitalize the “B”
As I get older, and hopefully, wiser, I tend to become more of a rebel. The one way to get me to do something is to tell me I can’t. I wish I could say I’ve always been this way but that’s not so. It’ a trait I’ve developed along the way, likely because I’ve had to take risks and I’ve found that much of the time, I’ve been successful. Until recently, I didn’t think of myself as ambitious. I thought of myself as surviving and doing what I had to do. I also followed what has been a trait for as long as I can remember. I don’t like to do the same thing for too long.
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Gratitude Really is an Attitude!
Once more in my life, I find myself realizing how fulfilling the attitude of gratitude is. As most of you, I could find many things to feel bad about and I could easily rationalize a way to focus on those things. But, then something happens that brings about the most profound sense of gratitude. For me, this is the birth of my first “Baby Grand”. I have taken to using this term because she is definitely the grandest of babies and I just like the way it sounds.
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We Cannot Direct the Wind but We Can Adjust Our Sails
I first saw this quote at a friend’s house several years ago. I don’t know who said it but it’s one of those things that you don’t think much about, at the time, but it keeps coming back to you. For me it was reoccurring as I’ve had to adjust to events that were beyond my control. Some were serious challenges, such as losing a loved one. Others were less so. I know that I’m not alone. Life is like that. We lose jobs. We lose some we love. We end a marriage or a friendship. Here’s what I’ve learned. Adjusting our sails means making choices.
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Kubler-Ross Aside. This is a roller coaster ride! The ups and downs of the grief process
It has been said, by those in the know, that the process of grief and loss has stages. While it is agreed these stages don’t necessarily show up in predictable patterns or in specific order, I am hear to tell you there’s much more than stages to the grief process than stages. The work of Kubler-Ross is important and accurate. However, to discuss grief and loss only in terms of stages makes it sound much too neat. Think rather of a roller coaster. Instead of starting out level and climbing up, this one starts with a downward spiral. The world appears to be spinning out of control.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Gayle LaSalle
“Itrnis my goal, my mission and my passion to help others realize their ability tornmake choices and allow themselves to thrive, rather than simply survive.” Gayle LaSalle
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