Every high-achieving and leader I coach walks into our first session wanting a strategy to lead or communicate more effectively. A better way to run their team, a plan for the next promotion, a fix for a culture problem that has been building for months.
But what actually determines whether they ...
I used to drop everything the moment a client’s name showed up in my inbox. Years ago, this was my way of working every day. I see this so often with my high-performing clients. Recently I had a client who experienced this every second of every day.
Didn't matter what she was working on. Present...
I avoided a conversation with someone I worked with for two years.
Two years of frustration that built up quietly in my head while I told myself I was being patient. I vented to other people about it. I made assumptions about their intentions. I decided, somewhere along the way, that they knew ex...
My client came into our first session talking super fast. Back-to-back meetings, projects stacking up, peers pulling one direction and leadership pulling another. Finding ways to manage up, down, and sideways was the goal, but they could never find the time. When I asked this client the last time...
Happy Tuesday morning!
Before you open your inbox, answer one question honestly. Did you recharge over the weekend, or was it filled with distractions, Sunday thinking about work and all that you had to do Monday morning?
A year ago, I hit a realization in my own business. I was doing everything ...
I was sitting in a room with about ten people, watching a senior professional pitch an idea. Within a few minutes, I could see the room was not with them. Phones were coming out under the table. People sat back in their chairs. A couple of people stopped making eye contact. And the leader kept ta...
I walked into a meeting a few months ago with a warning already given without solicitation.
Several people told me this leader was difficult. High expectations, hard to read, careful how you approach them. I'd heard some version of that sentence before, about different leaders, at different compa...
Happy Monday morning.
Before you open your inbox, answer one question honestly. Did you recharge over the weekend, or was it filled with distractions, Sunday thinking about work and all that you had to do Monday morning?
A year ago, I hit a realization in my own business. I was doing everything m...
A client said something recently that had me thinking of how often I hear this. It’s said directly, but most often it shows up through questioning. They said if they didn't have his hands on every part of a project, it would fail.
I asked a simple question. What proof do you have of that?
I was m...
You think you're hiding it. You're not. Your team already knows.
For 25 years in sales, I made my living reading what people weren't saying. In sales rooms, I watched buyers pull back in their chairs before they said no. I saw micro-expressions that showed someone didn't trust what was being so...
You built your career on being sharp, building and creating success.. You read the room, you close the deal, you get promoted because you deliver results.. And then you become a leader, and suddenly the thing that made you successful stops working the way it used to.
I have spent 18 years working...
Most of the leaders I coach are not sitting around avoiding work.
They are working constantly. Answering emails. Putting out fires. Managing difficult personalities. Jumping into meetings they were not supposed to be in. Solving problems that should have been handled by someone else. Trying to pr...
