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A lesson in energy from Professor Ed

“There is no illusion greater than fear.”  – Lao Tsu Tensions reach a fever pitch around North Korea. A terrorist bomb explodes in a London subway.  Millions of people dig out from the devastation of two whopping hurricanes. Pick any week and you could name events that trigger widespread fear. Pick any week and you […]

Summer, 2017 The Physical Side of Great CEOs As I often teach leaders, when we tune our perceptive filters to notice certain things, those things just seem to pop out all over. I have to own up to my own perceptive filters being well-tuned to see examples of the FEBI energy patterns at work. No […]

The New Science of Teamwork – Understanding how to meld different work styles will help you manage your team – and yourself – better.  So reads the cover of the Mar-Apr issue of Harvard Business Review (HBR).  I couldn’t have been the only person to notice this isn’t exactly new – reconciling or leveraging different […]

Ah-h-h-h, reveling in this relatively quiet week between the flurry of holidays – a good time to put one year in review and look ahead to the next. Reviewing 2016 through the lens of FEBI, we managed with no small amount of Driver thrust to get our febiassessment.com website updated, and our new e-Learning platform […]

It’s that time of the year again and, no, I don’t mean decorated trees, peppermint mocha lattes and overcrowded shopping centers.  If you or your clients work within an organization, it’s likely time for the annual performance review.  This term often provokes fear and anxiety around being judged or forced into conversations that have been […]

For those of you living outside the US or under a rock, you may have missed it: the most bloody, angry, and divisive presidential primary season, certainly in my lifetime, converging now into a hot summer of conventions. But I’ve recently been reading of a different sort of convention – one that can also be […]

Leadership runs on energy. As that energy runs through the human nervous system, four patterns emerge that show up in four ways of moving, four factors of personality and four modes of leadership. That’s a quick summary of 80 years of research, including more than 15 years of our own, to develop a validated measure […]

In this final part of the five-part blog series called The Patterns of FEBI we look at the power of combining all four. This series explores each pattern measured by the FEBI. The FEBI is a validated psychometric assessment and coaching tool that measures four fundamental patterns of personality and the various contexts in which […]

Part 4 of this five-part blog series called The Patterns of FEBI, expands into the Visionary. In this series we explore each pattern measured by the FEBI. The FEBI is a validated psychometric assessment and coaching tool that measures four fundamental patterns of personality and the various contexts in which they are expressed; cognition, physical […]