Coaching & Consulting
Key types of consulting
- Coaching leaders and businesses to do great things in ways that align with their values
- Coaching individual creators to reach their creative potential
Competencies in my backpack
Process engineering, creativity, change management, conflict management, writing & communications, project management, team building, event planning, product development, risk management, publishing
Valutivity LLC's Certifications
- State Corp Comm. LLC-ID: #S305631-6 since 10/06/2009
- Dun & Bradstreet (DUNS): #832359561 since 2009
- Vendor # with e-VA: VS0000054574 since 2009
- Small, Women & Minorities (SWaM) Certification: #682920 since 2009
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- Written by: Karen Smith-Will
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“There’s not a single exception. All screen activities are linked to less happiness, and all nonscreen activities are linked to more happiness,” noted Jean Twenge in “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?” The Atlantic, September 2017.
Reading this spawns random memories of articles like, “Has television destroyed a generation?” or “Has Dungeons & Dragons led to teen deaths?” or “Has MTV destroyed music?”
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A decade ago, I asked this question: "[H]ow can parents--think coaches, leaders--push just enough to inspire, but not enough to inflict pain? I'm not being rhetorical here."
Read more: Balance ⚖️ in Leadership: Inspiring vs. Inflicting pain
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One unique feature about Valutivity is its collaboration between Leadership and creativity, via The Consulting Arts. This page is a compilation of some creativity and innovation resources we've used through the years--for both sides of the company. These are in alphabetical order, not in order of importance, quality or applicability.
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Dan Rockwell of LeadershipFreak.com noted that, “Strong leaders leverage disagreements while weak leaders win arguments,” is powerful. I think his observation is analogous to “winning the battle but losing the war.”
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"Nothing is impossible" is an example of a faux truism. Here are a few tongue-in-cheek things we brainstormed, that are impossible: