I get your world and I want to help you win at work.
I get your world and I want to help you win at work.
Sometimes, a few simple practices are all it takes to produce profound change.
Making Time for Your Health
Your physical health is a key ingredient for resilience and ultimately success in your career. Unfortunately, with the press of daily demands, it can feel like there’s simply no time to work out or take care of yourself. Watch the video below or read the blog post...
The Worst Thing You Can Do In A Performance Review
Surprises are great for birthday parties and anniversary gifts, but they're NOT what you want in a performance review. Watch the video below or read the blog that follows to look at the issues that can contribute to surprises in a performance review. We'll also delve...
Combatting Collaboration Overload
Collaboration Overload. It’s afflicting everyone these days. There are so many methods to collaborate and communicate with one another: email, text, messenger, Slack, Zoom, Teams, Discord – the list goes on and on. While it’s great to have so many options, it can feel...
3 Strategies for Building Resilience
Today we're covering specific strategies that can help you maintain your resilience in the face of challenges commonly experienced in the workplace. Watch the video or read the blog post that follows to learn more. A recent article in Harvard Business Review by Andrea...
Creating the Future You Want to Have
In this post, I’m inviting you to play along with a thought experiment about your future. The goal? To help you see what’s possible for yourself – and then to be sure you’re on the path to get what you want. Watch the video or read the text below to try it out. ...
Why settle?
This story is going to “date” me a bit, but I’m sharing it as a parable. It’s about all the ways we convince ourselves that what we have is good enough – and all the ways that can hold us back. Watch the story in the video or read the text below to learn more. Back...
Gain Traction for Your Ideas
Whatever your role, ideas are the key to your success. To get ahead, you need to have good ideas. You need others to buy into them. And you need to execute them. This week we're looking at what gets in the way for far too many professionals, and what you can do...
The Bermuda Triangle of Stuck and How to Sail Through It
Talking to clients about their current career situation, it occurs to me that far too many people are caught up in what I’m starting to call the Bermuda Triangle of Stuck. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Bermuda Triangle, it’s an area in the ocean off of...
A Dangerous Tripping Hazard That New Senior Hires – and Their Managers – Need to Avoid to Be Successful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5LU8SLjhTI Starting a senior role - where you're expected to bring a certain level of experience - can be challenging. One of the biggest risks is that you and your new manager may both assume that you already know what you're doing....
The Secret to High Performing Teams that Most Managers Don’t Know and Most Coaches Don’t Teach
We've all had the experience of being on a team where things are tense, or everyone has gone quiet. That can be really puzzling, or even irritating, if you're trying to get things done. If it goes on a for a long time, you might even dread going to those meetings....
Are you giving up opportunities in your career to avoid the weight of additional responsibilities?
Sometimes people end up feeling stuck in their careers, because they worry that moving up will require too much time and sacrifice. They see that people above them in the organization are stressed out and working crazy long hours. As much as they want to get ahead,...
Feeling Stuck in “Meh”? How to Love Your Career Again
It’s so sad how many people are just “drifting” in their careers. A recent article by Adam Grant brought the concept of “languishing” back into popular culture. Curious, I watched his TED talk on the subject. Languishing, as Grant describes it, is the embodiment...