How to Find and Fix Your Blind Spot
Everyone has a blind spot. A blind spot is a habit or way of behaving that everyone knows about you—except perhaps YOU. Identifying your blind spot will help you recognize when your behavior is being...
View ArticleThis will help your DRIVE kick in!
Drive and motivation are such an important part of our busy lives. Today’s coaching minute might light a fire that you are not expecting. Check it out. The post This will help your DRIVE kick in!...
View ArticleRe Energize Your Career
Over a lifetime, we will spend an average of 90,000 hours on the job. How great would it be to feel excited about going to work? To feel challenged, interested and even engaged? Engagement is the new...
View ArticleDoes your professional image need a refresh?
A few months ago, Laura, my web designer & digital marketing expert said it was time for a website refresh. As usual, I resisted. This is the nature of our relationship. She tells me what I need...
View ArticleQuick Measure To Your Stress
Sure you know you are stressed but are you sure you know what you are stressed about? Is it work or relationship or finances or career or self-confidence or what? This week’s Coaching Minute provides...
View ArticleEnhance your Professional Brand in 30 minutes or less
Today’s coaching minute is a topic we often overlook in our busy work lives but it is something that REALLY matters in today’s environment. Check it out. The post Enhance your Professional Brand in 30...
View ArticleSchedule Squeeze September
Feeling that anxiety and overwhelm creep in? Join the club–it’s a September thing! Today’s coaching minute has 3 tips to help you combat schedule squeeze and thrive in your life and work roles. The...
View ArticleFive tips to doing a 180 with your career
As a career coach I am often asked the question—how do I go about making a total and complete change in my career? This is a tough question because there is no “secret formula” for doing a 180 in your...
View ArticleIrritated or Unhappy? Try this quick fix
Do you ever just feel crummy or irritated about something? Like your job, or personal relationship or an account? Something that usually does not bother you, but then suddenly it does? Maybe all of a...
View ArticleHow to Speak to Your CEO With Confidence
It amazes me how often I end up inadvertently “translating” on behalf of the heads of companies and divisions or at least offering some additional perspectives about what the CEO or Division Chief...
View ArticleHow To Be More Assertive In Your Communication
In a culture of hyper-aggressive communication and people talking over each other its hard to get a word in edge-wise. A side-effect of this cultural habit is that teams and families and the political...
View ArticleLet me speak! Tips For The Intense Communicator
Last time we talked about the passive communicator and I am glad so many of you found it helpful. This week it is time to OUT the opposite type of communicator-the overly enthusiastic and intense...
View ArticleIncrease Your Productivity As A Leader
I have a ton of empathy of leaders of today’s workforce who deal with a level of complexity and information-overload like nothing in the past. Nearly everyone is overwhelmed. One of the tools leaders...
View ArticleYou may be annoying your coworkers with this email etiquette faux pas
Today’s 24/7 business culture has given rise to some annoying little “side-effects.” Today’s Coaching Minute is focused on an important way to be responsive in a way that does not create more...
View ArticleReaders are Leaders – 3 Books I Recommend Reading
As some wise person once said, “Readers are Leaders.” That is so true. Part of the reason I am an avid reader is that I feel a responsibility and a duty to read what is out there on behalf of you–the...
View ArticleDo This if You Want to Live 23 Months Longer Than People Who Don’t
Yale University published the results of a 12 year study about people who read and found that people who read over 3.5 hours a week lived a full 23 months longer than the people who didn’t read at all....
View Article3 Mistakes Great Leaders Make
Leaders deal with more volume than ever. The sheer number of initiatives, issues, projects, and strategies–not to mention meetings is staggering. And leaders of prior generations would have buckled...
View ArticleHow to Get Yourself to Read More
Count yourself among the rare if you have even read a portion of a book in the last year. I know that non-fiction reading is a solid intention of so many people and yet there is a reason that hardly...
View ArticleThe Road To Leadership HELL Is Paved With Good Intentions [Infographic]
So, let’s talk about leadership blind spots… even though you don’t really have one, of course—or so you think. But that is why they call it a “blind spot,” right? You don’t see it. I prefer to look at...
View ArticleRaise your emotional intelligence, even if you are an introvert.
Hey introverts*—If you think most extroverts need to: a) stop talking so much; b) learn to be better listeners; and c) not be so over the top; then I hope you will consider the logical possibility that...
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