Highfill Performance Group

A recent visit to Tampa Bay to work with a friend and his special operations team provided a moment that I will never forget. As I was leading our team-building session, an officer came in and announced that the funeral procession of a soldier from the base that had lost his life in Afghanistan would [...]

I’m not talking about good dance moves in my title. I’m talking about leaders that actually motivate people by finding them doing something right. Recently, a reader e-mailed me with the following comment: “I think you should do a article about how it doesn’t take as long, or as much work, to find the good [...]

From Dan Collins, A Simple Guy The following article is from a friend of mine and great leader named Dan Collins. This is the story of the day he met Coach John Wooden. “Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.” John Wooden There are some men [...]

Everybody has a story. All of us create the pages of our story every single day through our choices, our interactions, our investments. We know our story because we’re writing it. The question is, do we respect the stories of others? Do we understand the power behind every story? Barbara Ueland, in one of the [...]

I’ll never forget her face. My grandmother could enter any room and literally bring additional light to it. She spent the last years of her career as a youth minister, and I watched with pride the way she impacted the people around her. Her ideas weren’t the greatest ideas in the world, her youth trips [...]

Photo from singularityhub.com Recently I spent time with some wonderful people who are working hard to help their company thrive. Many of us talked about the incredible pace of life. I heard words like: I am so overwhelmed This pace is insane I can’t catch my breath I don’t know how I’m going to get [...]

I gotta question for you. What does Chrysler know about the power of story? More than most. Chrysler proved it with a powerful Superbowl ad commercial with Eminem that stirred the soul.  Imagine the usual car commercial: A fast car blurs through the floor of Death Valley, spewing sand and causing lizards to take cover. [...]