Regulate Yourself and Others: Stress is Contagious

Regulate Yourself and Others: Stress is Contagious

Stress, as it turns out, is contagious. A stressed coach has a high potential to transfer that tension to the person they’re coaching. That’s why we always encourage a quick self-check at the start of coaching interactions. Kintla's Regulation Curve is a simple tool for self-assessment: “Where am I on this curve right now?” Encouraging your team to do the same provides clear, shared language to discuss stress openly and constructively.

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Joe Laipple

Building Resilience

January 27, 2026

Bridging Cultural Gaps: Unlocking Organizational Potential in Renewable Energy Initiatives

Bridging Cultural Gaps: Unlocking Organizational Potential in Renewable Energy Initiatives

Organizations today are increasingly turning toward renewable energy solutions, driven by sustainability goals and a global shift towards cleaner practices.

September 10, 2025

Why Performance Management Keeps Missing the Mark

Why Performance Management Keeps Missing the Mark

Many companies struggle to design systems that place people at the center of driving business results.

October 1, 2025

Tame the Sunday Scaries with a Daily Operating Rhythm

Tame the Sunday Scaries with a Daily Operating Rhythm

Left unchecked, the “Sunday scaries” can hijack what should be a restorative day.

Building Resilience

October 22, 2025

Regulate Yourself and Others: Stress is Contagious

Regulate Yourself and Others: Stress is Contagious

Stress, as it turns out, is contagious. A stressed coach has a high potential to transfer that tension to the person they’re coaching. That’s why we always encourage a quick self-check at the start of coaching interactions. Kintla's Regulation Curve is a simple tool for self-assessment: “Where am I on this curve right now?” Encouraging your team to do the same provides clear, shared language to discuss stress openly and constructively.

Building Resilience

January 27, 2026

When Your Coaching Isn’t Landing: How to Break Through

When Your Coaching Isn’t Landing: How to Break Through

Have you ever been in a coaching conversation that just isn't clicking? If you’ve experienced this frustration, you're certainly not alone. The good news? There's a clear, neuroscience-backed approach to breaking through this barrier.

August 24, 2025

From Coordination to Integration: Understanding the Four Levels of Project Relationships

From Coordination to Integration: Understanding the Four Levels of Project Relationships

Understanding this relationship continuum isn't just theoretical—it provides crucial insight into diagnosing relationship challenges on your project and identifying the necessary steps to improve effectiveness.

August 15, 2025

Building Fearless Teams

Building Fearless Teams

Teamwork is at the heart of productivity and culture and is critical to successful collaboration.

Building Resilience

Building Resilience

Strong cultures are built on trusting and respectful relationships among people at all levels of an organization. The bottom line: Taking care of people is taking care of business; the two rise and fall together.

Beyond Technical Excellence: Why Human Dynamics Make or Break Major Capital Projects

Beyond Technical Excellence: Why Human Dynamics Make or Break Major Capital Projects

The technical specifications were flawless, the engineering plans meticulously detailed, and the project controls robust. Yet something wasn’t clicking.

June 28, 2025

Building Psychological Safety in High-Stakes Environments

Building Psychological Safety in High-Stakes Environments

In major projects, psychological safety isn't about making people comfortable – it's about making them confident enough to be uncomfortable.

The Perpetual [Emotional] Energy Machine

The Perpetual [Emotional] Energy Machine

The more we contribute to a culture of understanding and validation, the more likely it is that others will have the energy they need to replenish our emotional resources.

Values: Beyond the Worksheet

Values: Beyond the Worksheet

Our values tell us who we are. They also show us how to be more effective under stress—if we listen.

Safety: When Habits Can Kill

Safety: When Habits Can Kill

New Covid-19 safety protocols require a reset of engrained work habits.

Changing Our Daily Safety Rhythm during COVID-19

Changing Our Daily Safety Rhythm during COVID-19

Decoding Resilience

Decoding Resilience

The secrets of the most effective people aren't secrets at all.

Questions to Manage Stress and Emotions

Questions to Manage Stress and Emotions

Resilience Building Practices

Resilience Building Practices

Which path do you want to be on? The one that leads to resilience or the one that leads to hypersensitivity?

Helping Your Teams Perform at Their Best

Helping Your Teams Perform at Their Best

The workplace has changed forever. How do we help our teams perform at their best as they work from home, as they return to the office, and as they strive to be productive during uncertainty and change?

Better Work-From-Home Routines

Better Work-From-Home Routines

We are all trying to get a handle on how to best work from home. How can we get productive during a time when we may be stressed out, have a lot to worry about, and feel disconnected?

Scaling Up: The Power of Emotional Regulation

Scaling Up: The Power of Emotional Regulation

I see it every day in my coaching practice—some leaders are told by their teams that they are reactive, cranky, hair-triggered, easily upset, and so on. Others get the opposite feedback...

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