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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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 […]
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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 […]
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” […]
Read more →How To Get Promoted Just like any other project you want to have a strategic approach to your career. That includes managing the messaging to others about who you are, what you’re good at, new ideas that you bring to the table to solve problems. What follows is a culmination of twenty five years of marketing and studying social behavior in organizations for ten years I have a few steps to help you get promoted. Imagine you are the product […]
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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 […]
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