Workplace Body Language for Leadership You have prepared for product pitch for months and now are finally in front of senior leadership. The meeting wasn’t going well. Your team worked through the plan under your leadership with all the possible alternatives. Everyone on the team worked hard and all contributed. You were set. As the leader of the team it is up to you to ensure this goes well so the project is funded. Now you are looking at a […]
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The multi-generational workplace is common and the biggest age span to date is currently occurring. As a leader, does keeping pace with the work get in the way of making everyone happy? With four (or more) generations in the workplace, personalities differ and challenges are present for each generation. The diversity is desirable but how do you keep them all motivated and communicating? First, you should know the workplace generalizations about your own generation. Second, you have to know what […]
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Leadership’s Changing Relationship No shocker, the workplace is changing. The market shifts, raw materials are not available or are no longer environmentally or socio-economically friendly – so things change. Consumer demand has changed, technology changed, available information has changed. Internet is pervasive and requires tossing the old marketing standards when communicating with consumers, customers or a client, never mind employees, because those same messaging tools do not produce the same results. The way we do business now cannot be the […]
Read more →Finding Success Working Above Your Title Let me rant for a moment. If I had a nickel for every time someone, when asked about their career, told me they were waiting to get promoted, I would be rich. Rich, I say! The truth is that, when it comes to your career, you’re in the driver seat. When you are in the driver seat you know that you have to drive. Seriously, if one of my people came to me and […]
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Finding a Career in the New Frontier Gone is the day when your career is in the hand of your organization. “We will take care of you” is often said but honored for a select few. You may be already in the C-Suite or tracking to get there. Either way, you know anything can happen and you are the captain ofyour own career. In fact, relevance and value is up to you at every stage of your career and level […]
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Learning and Growing From Conflict in the Workplace You’re all invited to a workshop on conflict management! YAY! Now that sounds fun right? Yeah, I thought your calendar just got filled beyond availability. Talking about conflict, conflict resolution, conflict management or whatever you want to call it, brings fear into the room. Knowing they’re bringing in an outside consultant for a “team building” makes even me want to roll my eyes. Then I remember I am that outside consultant. I […]
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As a Leader, What Should Information Mean to You? There are certain things that certain individuals know and certain things that no one speaks of when discussing management style or leadership qualities. No one tells you when you approach a room as a CEO, CFO, CIO, CTO or Chief of your discipline that you are solely responsible to know the value of information presented or what is missing from presentations. Most likely, you probably possess some really strong instincts or […]
Read more →Building self-confidence by figuring out How to Get a Job As a coach I encounter many questions that are unanswerable. Like how do I get a job? Seriously there are so many paths to getting “a” job. So how do I answer that? The truth is that the more you know about yourself the easier it is to be attractive to employers. The more you know what you’re really good at it’s easier to highlight that. The more you […]
Read more →6 Signs That You Are Stuck In Your Job Do you have the dream that you’re running and your legs are moving in slow motion? Yeah, the one where you’re not getting anywhere? Or the dream where you’re under water and you’re moving around and you see the light…but moving towards it isn’t coming fast enough? Or the one where you’re in a meeting and you’re on a task force for a new product and the two directors of “slightly” […]
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