Kristin Robertson
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Kristin Robertson Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Values-Based Leadership, Forgiveness
- Best Sellers
- A Forgiveness journal: Letting Go of the Past
- Career Focus
- Author, Speaker, Consultant, Coach
Kristin Robertson, President of Brio Leadership, is a values-based organizational consultant, dynamic presenter and results-oriented business coach. Her passion is to help individuals and teams positively transform their lives to create lasting change. Her corporate training and consulting programs build values-based leaders who create highly productive and engaged work teams. Her coaching helps individuals tornfind their spirit and achieve their dreams.
Kristin is a sought-after speaker and trainer for professional group meetings and conferences, and was on the faculty of the Help Deskr Institute University for five years.
Her clients include Hewlett-Packard, 7-Eleven, Southwest Airlines, AT&T, Federal Emergency Management Agency and Texas Children’sr Hospital. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Kristin held corporate positions including director at Fidelity Investments, where she won ther President’s Award in 1996, and Vice President of Client Services atr Advent Software in Silicon Valley.
She is certified to administer the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, emotional intelligence training from TalentSmart, the 5 Dynamics energy preference assessment, and Conscious Pursuit’s spiritual intelligence assessment. Ms. Robertson has completed two training courses, authorized by the International Coach Federation, to become a certified coach.
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Get Gossip Out of Your Life
Gossiping can suck the zest out of your spirit. Gossip is mean-spirited and little-minded; its goal is to make the gossipers feel superior to the gossiped-about. It is seductive, addictive and a way of bonding with other gossipers, all while pulling you down to the lowest spiritual common denominator. Gently observe your interactions with others, and catch yourself if you feel you are getting sucked into gossip. What Is Gossip? Let's define what gossip is and is not. Gossip is judgmental chit-chat about another person or group.
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Questions to Ask Yourself After Forgiving
Forgiving doesn't mean that you have to be best friends with - or married to - the person who hurt you. It simply means that you have reached a feeling of peace about the person or situation and have discharged your anger or resentment. The decision to take action after someone has hurt you is always a better one if you can wait until you have forgiven, at least in part. This is because your heart and mind are clear of dark emotions that dim your decision-making ability. So, you've gone through the process to forgive and have released much of your lingering anger and resentment.
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The Value of Mental Health Breaks
Are you challenged to live authentically and in alignment with your spiritual values on a daily basis? Many of us are so busy every day that it's hard to even remember what spiritual values are when we are on the go from morning to night. We have children to raise, jobs to commute to, work to do, meetings to attend, emails and phone calls to return, soccer practices and music lessons to chauffeur kids to. It's exhausting to think of the obligations we have in our lives.
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Spiritual Goal Setting
Are you ready to sit down and lay out your goals... be they for the New Year, for a project or just to get a fresh start on your life? I'd like to share my thoughts and experiences about goal setting that might provide you with some new perspectives on this important ritual.
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Forgiveness is a Team Sport
Forgiveness and the workplace -- seems like an odd juxtaposition, doesn't it? We do not often think of forgiveness as having anything to do with the workplace, but surprisingly, forgiveness is an essential practice of a highly effective work team. Thanks to recent psychological and medical research, we know that the act of forgiveness has many benefits to the individual. "People who are taught to forgive become less angry, more hopeful, less depressed, less anxious, less stressed, more confident, and they learn to like themselves more." (Dr.
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Finding Your Heart During a Busy Day
Does this sound like you? You rush from one meeting to another, deal with demanding customers, handle employees' conce s, put out the latest "fire" at the office or at home, return phone calls and wade through a knee-deep pile of emails. With a day like that, it can be so easy to get caught up in the busy-ness of the day -- the din of a hectic schedule drowns out the calm of your true heart. The good news is your quiet heart center is always available and it is just waiting for you to tap in, however briefly, to its calm.
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Five Ways to Practice Gratitude
Are you grateful? Now, more than ever, is the best time to practice gratitude. Although, it may seem like an odd time to discuss being thankful -- economic times are tough and public confidence in both corporate and governmental leaders is low. Why should you be grateful when it seems like things are at their worst? Consider this: According to recent research, the practice of gratitude and appreciation can make you happier -- and who doesn't want to be happier? There are several reasons that gratitude makes you cheerier.
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There Is Nothing to Fear in Forgiveness
Are you afraid of forgiveness? Do you believe that it will empower the other person to continue to hurt you and/or other people? Do you fear that forgiveness will make you give up your role as victim and lose the sympathy you get from others? Are you under the impression that forgiving will make you vulnerable to experiencing hurts similar to those you've experienced in the past? These fears are flat out false. Several of my coaching clients have declared something like this, "I can't forgive my ex-husband because I'm afraid he's going to do horrible things to me and the kids.
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Forgive in Your Own Time
Not long ago, I saw an online video of a woman who described the wondrous things that manifested in her life once she forgave the man who killed her daughter. She said she worked hard to forgive - it took her several days. I start screaming at the screen, "Several days! Honey, you think that's bad? It's taken me years to forgive several people in my life, and months to forgive others! And none of these people killed anyone!
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Five Ways to Develop the Transformational Leader Within You
Today, leaders must deal with complexity, ambiguity and constant change. If leaders are to be successful, they must possess not only mental maturity, but also maturity of heart, mind and the human spirit. Tall order for us mere mortals, huh? The good news is that transformational leaders, those who truly make a difference, are developed, not born. How can you become a transformational leader?
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Who is the Inspirational Leader in Your Organization? Could it Be You?
Who is the inspirational leader in your organization? A company needs just one focal person to bear the flag, as a Civil War flag bearer would ride in front of a cavalry unit, showing the way into battle with a symbol of pride. Employees long to work for organizations in which there is a purpose bigger than just a paycheck, where employees are appreciated, and where managers care about them as people. They need an inspirational leader.
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The Value of Building a Values-Based Enterprise
The country of Bhutan thinks differently. This country values happiness over productivity, as evidenced by their measurement of the Gross Domesic Happiness index. Recently, the Prime Minister of Bhutan, Jigme Thinley, pointed to the cause of the current economic crisis. His answer: "Greed, insatiable human greed." What a contrast between values such as the pursuit of happiness (a value first espoused in the United States' Declaration of Independence) and greed!
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Do you wish you could build an organizational environment that looks like this?
* People are working in their strengths, producing energized, highly productive workers who look forward to Monday morning
* Workplace drama is minimized so that people focus on what is best for the customers and the organization
* Interpersonal conflict is dealt with quickly and effectively, creating a calmer, fairer and more creative environment
* Company core values are explicitly stated and leaders hold themselves and their employees accountable to acting according to the values
* Employees understand their contribution to the good of the company and to the wider world.
Brio Leadership helps you create an organizational climate that is productive, efficient and fun!
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* Integrity
* Compassion
* Respect for the individual and respect for the whole
* Courage
* Emotional mastery
* Forgiveness
* Accountability
* Sustainability
* Service
Corporations and organizations can change the world by embedding these virtues into their work cultures. In addition, these institutions can gain a reputation as great places to work.
This isn't touchy-feely, "hold hands and sing Kumbayah" stuff. The benefits of creating a values-based workplace are tangible, bottom-line results such as:
* Higher employee productivity, engagement and creativity
* Lower attrition
* Lower absenteeism and lower health-related expenses
* Better teamwork
* Loyal customers who are delighted by your energized employees
Brio Leadership can help you achieve these outcomes. Through our consulting, training and executive coaching services, we can help you identify your core values, create highly productive work teams and develop leaders who can bring out the best in their people.
Brio Leadership can help your organization thrive!