In honor of World Mental Health Day, we wanted to share the 5 habits we find most helpful with our mental health.

Learn how you can ease back into work after vacation.

Learn the difference between passive and intentional rest and how to make the most of your time off.

Scheduling that coveted summer vacation isn't selfish. You can call it self-care, but we say it's essential.

There are so many ways you can manage stress nowadays. Each person is different so your preferences on stress management will vary. Instead we'll take an approach that could be applied in a variety of circumstances.

We understand that perhaps the thought of facing your stress seems more daunting than the idea of managing the stress itself. But both go hand in hand.

What is stress anyway?

Creating a highly motivated workspace? Consider these three things.

Do you know what High Performing Culture means? Or better yet how to create it?

Work cultures that inspire play, purpose, and potential, and do not engage emotional, economic pressure, or inertia as motivating factors, produced better customer outcomes.

Why we work determines how well we work and why we work is directly impacted by work culture.

The first resource we recommend is The 9 Types of Leadership: Mastering the Art of People in the 21st Century Workplace, by Beatrice Chestnut.

Here Sway gives a recap of the Thomas Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument. This is based on a five-category scheme for classifying interpersonal conflict-handling modes: competing, collaborating, compromising, avoiding, and accommodating.

See one of our favorite downloadable resources for the 27-subtypes and why we use it. Thank you to the CP Enneagram Academy for their focus on quality and Enneagram ethics.

Read about our free Enneagram Series- Nine Styles.

We believe it’s our job to set up an individual or team for success as best we can when introducing them to the framework. So in that spirit, below we’ve listed out our series of simple “don’ts.”

Ethics is a crucial part of learning and implementing the Enneagram. We've included some helpful tips on how to appropriately engage with the enneagram.  

Self awareness is the key to personal development and leadership growth.

This past year was a big one both professionally and personally. For starters, we moved from Portland to Iowa…

Whether the origins of Valentine’s Day align with you or not, one cannot deny it pays tribute to caring for those in your life, celebrating yourself, and thinking about love on a larger scale.