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4 Risks of Taking a Stand with an Abrasive Boss
Diane had it. For almost two years she had worked evenings and week-ends to take the company sales to a higher level. The company's annual revenue had grown 11% since she had joined the organization. Since the beginning of her employment she remained open and respectful when she received critical...
Why You Can Trust Your Gut
Imagine arriving to work and you are just getting settled at your desk when an employee comes to you who is visibly shaken. The employee conveys yet another incident of interacting with an abrasive leader and your day shifts from attending to your responsibilities to putting out the fires of...
How To Give Critical Feedback To All-Star Employees
Jenna has always been a conscientious, hard-working employee. However in recent months, her attention to detail has declined and she has used all of her vacation and sick days, even taking days off without pay after she had used all the hours from her PTO (paid time off) bank. While...
Deliberate Practice: The Key To Building Your Expertise
As a child my mother wanted me to take piano lessons. I wasn’t crazy about the idea but I didn’t have a choice, both my sister and I were expected to take lessons. As with learning any new skill, taking the lesson is one thing, practicing so the lesson sinks...
3 Tips to Achieve 2016 Goals
Follow These Three Tips to Achieve Your 2016 Goals With the start of the new year, whether you have goals and objectives for personal development or business, achieving goals boils down to your daily habits, behaviors, and mindset. If you do the following research based tips on a regular...
2015 Gratitude, Highlight, and Wisdom
What are your 2015 reflections? In my last blog I wrote about one of our family holiday rituals of sharing the answers to Three Questions related to the past year. While I have much to be grateful for, have many highlights from 2015, and lessons I learned (often the hard...
A Ritual for the Holidays
Ask these 3 questions at your holiday gatherings Rituals. They are the practices that we have as part of holidays that give us comfort and stability. Rituals can be special foods, practices, or most simply "just how things are done" that provide meaning and significance. In the workplace, rituals such...
How to Approach Your Year End Review
What inroads have you made for your 2015 goals? As 2015 winds down in just over six weeks and you reflect on the past year regarding personal and professional growth, what are you celebrating? What didn't happen that you intended to happen? Maybe this has been your best year ever...
How To Build Inner Resources, Resolve, and Resiliency
What inner resources help you cope with demands, distractions, and disappointments? "We are expected to do more in less time" "Leadership doesn't get how unrealistic their demands are." "I hold everything inside - I don't sleep, I am depressed" "We are constantly on - even on sick days and vacation,...
10 Questions to Move from Avoidance to Intervention
"Depending on who Margie is talking to, she is friendly and helpful. To some of us, she yells and speaks down to us when we ask her a question. Sometimes she even throws darts at the door after people leave her office. From day to day, you never know what...