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At the U.S. Coast Guard Alumni Association Women’s Leadership Initiative, Crisis1 highlighted its commitment to solving client challenges by developing decision-makers, while also reflecting on the core values instilled by the Coast Guard, emphasizing that aligning career choices with personal values leads to meaningful success.

In a crisis, leaders must prioritize immediate threats to the organization, followed by strategic planning and communication, and Crisis1 offers a systems approach to ensure businesses are equipped with the people, policies, plans, and platforms needed to navigate challenges and communicate effectively.

The post uses the analogy of a wingman (Dash-2) to emphasize the importance of having a strategic partner who ensures you stay on course, with Crisis1 offering a systems approach to strategic planning, process improvement, and communication to reduce risk and build a strong, communicative culture.

The post explores how the increasing reliance on rules can hinder innovation and decision-making, advocating for a culture that embraces experimentation, learning from mistakes, and empowering leaders to make decisions at the point of action.

In Radical Integrity, James Jacobi explores how embracing authenticity and setting high standards can transform personal and professional growth, with strategies like gratitude, strategic goal-setting, and building meaningful connections, all of which align with our Vivid Vision's focus on integrity and team success.

The recent Program Managers (PM) Conference focused on deepening connections, aligning with the Vivid Vision pillars, and integrating insights from Connect First by Melanie A. Katzman, Ph.D., emphasizing the power of interpersonal connections to enhance team collaboration and growth.

Cy Wakeman's No Ego emphasizes a reality-based leadership approach that reduces workplace drama, promotes accountability, and encourages leaders to focus on solutions without enabling dependency, ultimately fostering a culture where critical thinking and ownership drive better outcomes.

In Reality-Based Leadership, Cy Wakeman emphasizes that leaders should focus on reality over ego, address facts instead of stories, and hold individuals accountable while empowering them to make decisions and learn from their experiences.

Greg McKeown’s Essentialism and Effortless emphasize focusing on what truly matters by simplifying priorities, reducing unnecessary effort, and achieving more by aligning actions with clarity and enjoyment.

In Optimal Outcomes, Jennifer Goldman-Wetzler offers strategies to break free from conflict loops by identifying common habits like blaming, shutting down, and over-collaborating, while emphasizing the importance of understanding emotions and creating clarity to take effective, pattern-breaking actions.