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Dawn Ward

Week 3: Provide a Menu to Reduce Reactance

🔖This Week’s Lesson: Review the first tactic for reducing Reaction: Provide a Menu (pages 30-33 in The Catalyst by Jonah Berger) In a class I was taking a few years ago, one of the instructors made an off-hand comment that, instead of coming to the table with a solution

Week 2: Reactance

🔖This week’s plan: Read the intro section to Reactance chapter (pages 15-30) in The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone’s Mind by Jonah Berger. My son turned 18 in 2023 so I can confidently say I’ve almost survived the teen years 🎉 As my son entered adolescence, I braced

Week 1: Becoming a Catalyst

Strategic Evolution: A Personal Development Plan for Change Leadership

Happy New Year!! For 2024, I’ve decided to change the focus of my blog posts. In my last post, I talked about how I tend to direct my own professional development. What I didn’t emphasize is that, from the outside, the process could be viewed as a bit

Embracing Frustration as a Leader: Keys to Rapid Growth

🗣️"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other." - John F. Kennedy Something must be wrong with me. I remember thinking that over and over again after sitting through countless meetings brainstorming solutions to various company challenges for which the answer was always obvious to me - we

Cracking the Code: Overcoming Challenges in Developing Tech Pros into Leaders

🗣️"When an organization stops growing leaders, it stops growing." - John Maxwell Leadership is complex and involves solving many problems. You know who loves to solve problems? Technical contributors You know who makes great leaders for technical organizations? Technical contributors You know who often avoids leadership opportunities like