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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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A Hidden Roadblock For Effective Leadership: You’re Attached To Your Story

When you get a new eyeglasses prescription, you have to be willing to let your old glasses go. Sure, you…
Life

How To Train Your Brain To Separate Work Life From Home Life

Flexible work is no longer a temporary pandemic solution—it’s a mainstay of the modern world. According to a survey of…
Life

Will ChatGPT Create a Revolution?

ChatGPT and its recently unveiled successor GPT-4 are certainly having their moment in 2023. Open AI’s generative AI chatbot has…
Leadership

The Impact of Words, Tone, and Body Language 

Most of us know that most of our communication is nonverbal. In fact, we may even be familiar with the…
Leadership

Performance Reviews in Today’s Hybrid World

Hybrid work has drastically changed our relationships with our colleagues and supervisors. Managers used to be able to walk around…
Career

We Should Aim to Quiet Thrive  

With all of the talk of being quiet these days, from quiet quitting to quiet firing to quiet promoting, it…
Career

5 Strategies For Changing Your Mindset After Being Laid Off

Already, 2023 has been tough for tech workers. According to Layoffs.fyi, nearly 95,000 jobs have been cut since the beginning of…
Career

Conquer Impostor Syndrome

Success is a prize many high achievers — especially women — feel they don’t deserve. It’s a conundrum so prevalent,…
Career

The Quiet Movement Lives on with Quiet Promotions 

By now we’ve all heard the buzzwords “quiet quitting” and “quiet firing,” and there’s another workplace trend that is no…
Leadership

How ‘Urge Surfing’ Can Help Leaders

When we think of urges we experience, the need to eat when we’re hungry or the desire to have a…
Leadership

How To Be A Strong Leader While You Are Under-Resourced

Leaders are being asked to do more with less these days. Goals and expectations continue to increase, but executives and…
Life, Wellness

Did the Pandemic Wake Us to the Benefits of Napping? 

Sleeping on the job has been frowned upon since the Industrial Revolution when workers (even children) pulled 12 to 16-hour…
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