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 […]
Read more →How to Create Success for Your Team Seriously, don’t we all want to “foster” “success” as leaders? My definition of success includes going home at night feeling like we really moved the mark today. We did good work and it was appreciated. Companies like 3M, Smith Sport Optics, Deckers, Patagonia know how to build the environments that inspire creativity. Do they have meetings, budgets, hiring freezes and the normal worries of business today like supply chain issues and quality breakdowns?Absolutely, […]
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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 […]
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50 ways to disengage from others at the office If I had a nickel for every time chatty people asked me for help with time management I’d be rich, rich I say! Actually a client was regaling a story about someone that was dominating, in an unpleasant way, her time. She said, “what could I do she wouldn’t leave my office?” Well there are many ways to disengage when you’re in the middle of a conversation that’s going terribly wrong […]
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 […]
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I’ve become unhinged today. The short story is that it involves Microsoft tech support, two separate calls (so far) and four hours on the phone and remote access to my computer. I saw the better side of me slip down the side of the cliff. The truth is that I saw me acting like one of “those people.” I watched as an observer in slow motion as they pressed the reconfigure Microsoft office button. This set in motion an action […]
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“Coaching isn’t therapy. It’s product development, with you as the product.” FAST COMPANY People don’t automatically trust their employer. Uh, yeah, duh. Most of you are thinking “no kidding. The rest of you aren’t reading this. I am amazed the stories I hear when I tell people what I do. They try to understand how it fits into their world by asking me if, for example, those ropes courses, or I do the blind spider web game with team members. […]
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My clients want a change and they want it now. They don’t often know exactly what would make them super deliriously happy. They don’t really even know what makes them unhappy. Except they do know they just can’t go on the way it is. The truth is the deep dive takes time and it takes courage. Cuz what if you do the deep dive into your purpose or your proper career path and there is nothing there? What if you […]
Read more →As a person in transition I feel it on two levels…. One as the messy person who is regrouping after a contract went away. The other is as a researcher in the theory of behavioral change. Unfortunately, and not surprising to anyone but me, the messy part often overshadows the researcher in me. I am a process girl. I found that out in grad school when there was a question on group function that we were supposed to describe. The […]
Read more →You can’t do any behavioral change in a vacuum. Okay maybe this is a little too global and not really on point. However I am reading about the sales process and how to create a system of sales activities to grow my business. Now that I have capacity I need to generate activity or some would call it income or business. That includes blogging and it includes making outbound calls to people who might bring me business or hire me […]
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