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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…
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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

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…
Career

Quiet Firing: A New Moniker for an Old Workplace Concept 

We are hearing about the looming threat of another recession in the news these days, and some industries are already…
Leading Lightly

A Leading Lightly Conversation with Thought Economics

Since releasing my book Leading Lightly last summer, I’ve done countless interviews and podcasts. I’ve talked before about how as…
Leading Lightly

Want to Lead with More Ease? Change Your Perception 

The workplace shapes all of us. Your industry, your office environment, your company culture – all these components will shape…
Career

Virtual and Augmented Reality are Changing the Workplace

Before the pandemic, we had all heard about virtual and augmented reality (remember Pokémon GO back in 2016?). However, the…
Leadership

How is the Hybrid Workplace Working? 

There seems to be a great divide in visions of the future of work between employers and employees. Companies are…
Life

New Year’s Resolutions are Criminal Promises (and Research Supports That) 

We’ve all been there. Each year as the holidays come to a close, we make a list of “resolutions” or…
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