Working To Inspire Others Is there a certain leader you’ve had who you’ve loved working with? We all have those one or two examples of leaders that easily come to mind. We’ve worked our hardest. We’ve done our best work. We would follow that leader anywhere. But what makes us want to follow certain leaders? What makes us want to work our hardest and best for a particular leader? Inspiring Others is a leadership competency. Motivating others and building effective teams is so important to success and yet a hard competency to master. The shift from good to great happens with skill in empowerment, awareness of people, flexing to other’s styles and being able to make tough stands while…

Updated: Mar 8, 2021 It’s all around us: we read about it, we think about it, and we witness it. We’ve all lived that moment of leaving a meeting and cringing thinking about who you were, how you acted, or what you said in that moment in time. We have a gift in these moments: it was only a moment, it is in the past, and…

Nov 17, 2019 When it comes to working with an executive coach, just how vital is your part in the endeavor? You have important work responsibilities when engaging an executive coach. Your best work and potential for realizing your desired outcomes is a balance of what feels comfortable and what pushes you outside of your comfort zone. …

When habits can accelerate or cause speed bumps. Summer is that rare time of year that our work worlds slow ever so slightly, vacation time is maximized and we focus more on fun and social time than all work. We break our routines with different schedules. Summer time has passed and here we are in September. Summer vacation…

Owning disruption in your pursuit of goals I was in Toronto the other week for client work and a supplier diversity conference. As I walked to my conference one morning I felt very uncomfortable. It was peak commuter time and I was going against the crowd. I was at odds with the flow; I kept having to move around people. There was an overwhelming number of people coming at me. It was work and it was difficult contending with that big and busy crowd.

Moving from managing sales to leading sales success “Tell me about your product or service.” This is the line every sales person wants to hear right? Wrong….it’s a trap to become commoditized by the buyer or worse yet become the product-pushing seller. I so often hear and experience sales people jumping in too early in a sales…

ROLE MODELING has played a very important part of our lives. I bet you can quickly call to mind your own influential role models. These influential people span both our personal and professional lives. So where does role modelling fit in your life today? …

The Give and Take of Conversations The floor is yours By human nature, we love to talk about ourselves, and many of us just love to talk. While this can be a strength, it can become an overused strength. …

The formula for change “How are you?” “I’m busy!” How often are you hearing this? I am hearing it a lot, every day. Even I’m guilty of saying it! What are the most likely causes? 1. Overcommitting 2. Not setting boundaries 3. Poor time planning 4. Doing work that can be done by others 5. Letting distractions get in the way of priorities My husband and I have had several “busy” months. Lots on the go both personally and professionally. The reality is that we’ve…