A client described feeling dead inside. It was so weird because she looked very much alive, vibrant and living a life that was interesting and exciting from the external point of view. The death that she described wasn’t her heart, her soul or her drive. It was her dream. She forget what she was supposed to do in life and found herself on a path that looked like success but felt like a trap. Knowing your personal brand is finding […]
Read more →New Year Resolutions – contemplation and change – I think I’ll pass… Resolution as defined in Merriam-Webster’s dictionary (a personal favorite from college) The act of finding an answer or solution to a conflict, problem, etc. The act of resolving something An answer or solution to something The ability of a device to show an image clearly and with a lot of detail I knew resolutions were challenging and fleeting and this is validating. Resolutions are just a step to […]
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Power of Authentic Leadership: Transparency in Today’s Workplace We hear a lot about authentic leadership in the world of developing leaders for your organization. I have to laugh when I hear that because what is the opposite of authentic? The opposite as far as I can find is from not authentic, false, fake, mock, synthetic or the worst I can find is fraudulent. Please tell me why anyone would spend one minute in any of those categories when leading people? […]
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A Need for Coaching: The Stages of Change The tipping point, or the breaking point, or the last straw, or whatever you want to call that very nanosecond where you decide ENOUGH. I am not doing it the same old way for one more moment. I am going to ask you to think back to a time when you reached your tipping point in business when, again, you did not prepare for the presentation and now you are so stressed. […]
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 […]
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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