The professional landscape across the US is shifting, and not always in ways that feel optimistic and reassuring. Workers are feeling uncertain about their careers and job prospects and many are reacting out of frustration and fear, instead of coming at it from a position of confidence and clarity. In these moments of uncertainty, we […]
Personal Branding
Leading Your Team With a Coaching Mindset
A coaching mindset allows leaders to shift from giving directives to empowering their team members to take ownership and grow.
Should You Take The Risk? 4 Steps To Making More Confident Career Decisions
Also baked into an understanding of risk (while not the dictionary version) is the potential for opportunity, possibility, and positive benefit. Weighing the risk of harm against the possibility of something good happening is how we evaluate risk.
If not you, then who? Building influence in your workplace
“The word influence originates from the Latin word influere, meaning ‘to flow or stream.’* Influence is understood to be how we “… sway a person, action, opinion, or course. Having influence means driving — directly or indirectly — the way something plays out.” In other words, influence guides and drives the way something happens. We […]
The Transparency Dilemma: Staying authentic while keeping some things private
I shared my POV on transparency and authenticity in a video, which sparked a lot of great conversation. Many of you chimed in with your thoughts, so I wanted to take this opportunity to dive a bit deeper into the topic of honesty, transparency, authenticity, and realness. If you missed that post, you can check […]
How You Receive Compliments Impacts Your Leadership Presence: Do’s and don’ts to consider
Many of us struggle with this: Someone pays us a compliment and we deflect or minimize the kind words, as if doing so will make us seem humble or at least not look arrogant. We receive compliments in our personal lives, from family, friends and other loved ones, but the professional compliments are ones we […]
