Category: Flips Tips

Balanced Effectiveness At Work by Flip Brown is a useful compendium of tips, tools, and techniques to make being at work work better.

One way to describe our personality is to say that it is made up of our patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. When we show up at work, we are bringing these patterns with us.

Fear, and its smaller sibling—anxiety—can serve a useful purpose in our lives, but only in a very narrow way, and under specific circumstances. Most of what we hold as anxiety about the workplace falls under the old-fashioned category of “neurotic”: it’s not really significant enough to require any drastic action, and it’s usually about our

The Importance of Shared Definitions, Expectations & Assumptions So often in the workplace, we think that everyone is relatively on the same page; however, it is probably more accurate to assume that it’s like the bar scene from the first Star Wars movie—aliens from every different galaxy, each with their own conceptual frameworks and languages

The Temptation to Blame When we experience discomfort or disconnect in a relationship, one of our first tendencies is to find fault with the other, to view him in a negative light, and express these thoughts and feelings to those around us. Sample scenario #1: Oscar finds his supervisor to be challenging to work with.

Concepts are great, knowledge is good, trying things out is helpful; however, for lasting change, we need to incorporate and integrate our new beliefs and behaviors through practice. Yoga, sports, meditation, music, and many other categories benefit from the commitment to consistency. Ideally, we practice not out of obligation or drudgery, but out of the

When we’re solely focused on chasing our own success, we run the risk of shutting ourselves off from the world around us, and fail to see how our talents are best used for something other than our exclusive gain. Being in service not only provides value to the recipient, but also helps us to “get

Balancing Tasks and Relationships While there is a premium placed on task management in virtually all workplace settings, we cannot achieve optimal results without effective relationships across the organization. Knowing when, where, and how to shift our energies on this continuum can be a valuable component to our success. Sample scenario #1: Mateo is the

You’re Part of It, So Why Not Honor It? Almost all of us feel that there is something “out there and in here” other than our normal, time-limited, material existence. While there are literally hundreds of names for what I will generically call a “Universal Life Force,” what matters is not so much how we

The Art of Supportive Confrontation I don’t know about you, but my old approach to conflict only had three options: (1) be really, really nice and hope things would get better, (2) run like hell (literally or internally) from the situation, or (3) get tired of holding that beach ball under the water and let