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Adaptability has come into the vogue as one of the top skills essential to individual, team, and organizational success.

More expansive than the “re-silience,” our ability to weather disruption and maintain some sense of self and balance,

Are you still figuring your S**t out? Listen in while Wendy Battles, Reinvention Rebel, interviews one of The Bolder Company Founders, Ellen Feldman-Ornato, as she explains how she uses improvisation and innovation to figure her S**t out at 61.

AARP CT believes that our local suppliers and vendors should reflect the diversity of our state, our volunteers and our members, especially when they are interacting directly with them. In 2016 we wanted to provide our diverse group of volunteers with training that would boost skills associated with communicating with confidence, storytelling, and dealing with difficult people/situations. That began our long standing relationship with The Bolder Company.

When a friend — I’ll call her Marilyn — asked for my “best psychotherapist take” on how to tell her 9-year old daughter they could not keep the stray kitten they’d discovered in a ditch near their home, I was ready with offers born of many years of experience on topics like this. Not a good time for the family to add a new member, or incur the expenses of a pet? An opportunity to teach a child about boundaries and limits in life. Worried the child will not do her part to care for the kitten? Consider this an opportunity to teach about accountability. Lay out the new responsibilities leveraged against a set of rewards for meeting them.

Have you ever heard someone complain that company change is top-down, that leadership is setting visions but not realistically accounting for how employees will execute? Disengagement and cynicism happen when people receive mandates for change or improvement but lack the skills and resources to create the desired results.