I have always held that the most challenging times of our lives come when we face redefining ourselves. Like when we go from being a high schooler to being a college student. From being a college student to being employed. Or employed by someone else to employed by ourselves. Or from being single to being [...]
Executive Coaching and Mentoring
Dear Reader, You don’t know what to do. Oh, you’ve got plenty of ideas about what you could do. About what’s possible. About your dreams. Or maybe you’re really, really busy – pursuing a hundred leads at once and reeling from all the potential paths available to you. But somehow nothing’s really happening. Nothing’s clicking. And [...]
This April 10 – 16 is National Volunteer Week. Individuals who choose careers in the non profit world of human services are a particularly hearty lot. They do more with much less and try harder because giving up isn’t an option. They lead, follow, direct and manage kindred spirits who join them in believing that what [...]
It fairly radiates from some people, doesn’t it? You can see it in their eyes. In the way they hold their shoulders. They have a crushing belief that they’re not good enough. Never will be good enough. Couldn’t possibly be good enough. Since they’re always going to be a little bit short, they work like [...]
If you have to think if your joke is appropriate, it’s not. If you hesitate before lambasting a colleague, don’t. If you stop, however briefly, to determine the correctness of your comment, that’s reason enough to move it from the top of your agenda and the tip of your tongue. Study your action under cooler [...]
I cannot believe I haven’t written about this before, because I talk about it all the time. In classes, in coaching sessions, in workshops, possibly even in my sleep – I hammer the importance of The Connector Strategy. Yet, I’ve never shared it with you in this forum. Let’s remedy that right now, shall we? [...]
Ellie (not her name) needs a mountain to climb and she doesn’t have one. What’s her story? She gets her kicks from challenges. The bigger the stretch, the greater the risk, the more exhilarated she feels. Right now she’s feeling as empty as her horizon is flat. She doesn’t have a mountain to climb. She [...]
How HR Can (and Should) Coach Managers on Problem Employee Behaviors We’ve all been there. It’s Monday morning. You’ve had a good weekend and arrive in the office ready for a new week. Carol had a good weekend too. She had plenty of time to mull over the situation with her direct report, Joe. He’s [...]
We’re standing in a ragged gaggle at a grown-up party. Cocktails in hands. Dressed up slightly for a Saturday night (nice jeans instead of the neighborhood’s traditional weekend uniform of yoga pants and sweats). We’re feeling festive-ish, even. When she says, “Michele is so funny. I mean, you always say the funniest things. Say something funny, [...]
Guest Author: Michele Woodward The other day I posted on Facebook: From the comments posted in response, to-do lists seem to be the bane of existence for quite a few of us. Don’t like ‘em, but can’t live this modern life without ‘em. As I lay me down to sleep, though, I looked back on my troublesome [...]