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Life

Feelings, Emotions and Moods: How to Say What You are Experiencing

Aware or not, most people experience a wide range of emotions during an average day. And, these experiences are highly…
Leadership

What is an Executive Coach?

During some point in your career, there may be an opportunity to consider hiring an executive coach. Whether you seek…
Leadership

Lead Your Team to Success: Ask The Right Questions

When Joel, a senior VP of sales, first began his executive coaching engagement with me, he was perplexed. His team had…
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Career

How to Prevent Quiet Quitting

There’s a term trending on social media right now called “quiet quitting,” but in reality, it’s nothing new. It’s just…
Leadership, Life

How to Put Decision Fatigue to Rest

Never in the history of the world have we been plagued with information overload like we are today. Some research suggests that…
Leadership, Leading Lightly

How to be a Better Leader: Get Out of your Head and Into your Body

Just like athletes, executives need their bodies to be able to perform optimally. Think of an athlete executing their skill.…
Leadership

Should a Chief Purpose Officer be your Next Hire? 

There was a time when employees were expected to leave their personal views at home so as to maintain neutrality…
Leadership, Life

Be Interested, Not Interesting 

When most people think about performance anxiety at work, they likely remember a dreadful job interview, a time where you…
Career

Go Overboard to Make Your Onboarding a Success 

One of the most treacherous times in one’s career is navigating a workplace transition. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a…
Leadership, Leading Lightly

How To Become A More Self-Aware Leader

A strong leader is able to go about their day as if they have two parts of themselves—separate, yet integrated—working…
Leading Lightly, Mental Fitness

Challenges of Building Soft Skills

Everyone has likely heard of emotional intelligence. You may have even read a book or two on the subject trying…
Leading Lightly

Conversations with Coaches  

If you’re a coach, you’re always looking out for methodologies or strategies to use or share with your clients. When…
Leadership

Turn Leadership Pet Peeves Into Opportunities

When we consider office pet peeves, we may think of a colleague who leaves early, unpleasant odors coming from the…
Leading Lightly

Three Reasons You Can’t Keep Calm and Lead On 

There’s one skill all leaders need to master. It doesn’t get the nightly news headlines, it isn’t the latest technological…
Leading Lightly

5 Myths of Leading Lightly 

Leaders are always under stress to perform. They must lead their teams to achieve higher results, maintain calm under immense…
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