We've all been there. Having a great day. Checking things off the to do list. Then boom! You hit a wall worse than a marathoner bonking at mile 20. You want to crawl under the desk. It takes an hour to get back to the same level of productivity. That's an hour you’ve either lost or you have to...
Coaching Advice
INSIGHT: Oops
Press send too quickly. React with your gut. Let your buttons get punched. Speak without thinking. Do something hurtful. Oops. It's not what you say or do but how you are with the possibility of mistakes that matters. Everyone says and does things they regret, sometimes the moment they say...
9 Steps to Changing Careers and Getting the Life You Want
There are two questions I get asked most frequently when I meet new people and tell them my story. The first is, “Why did you decide to leave law?” and the second is, “How did you make the change?” I recently got an email from a woman explaining that she was stuck in her career path but she wasn’t...
INSPIRATION: Ban Infobesity
Monday feels like the edge of a cliff this week and I’m already falling into the abyss of my calendar. It’s time to trim my wings so I can fly. #1 to go – extraneous information. Sometimes we just have to trust that the information that needs to get to us will find us somehow. The only way to do...
The Key To Being Adaptable
By: Susan Mazza If you want to be adaptable you must be willing to let go of the need to know the answer. Why? Because there is rarely one answer: that single right answer to the questions you are being asked and are asking or the right path through the challenges you face. Sure there are...
Authenticity 2.0
Authenticity at work: is that an oxymoron? A pipedream? Most of us long to be more authentic at work, yet in most organizations, authenticity is in short supply. Here’s a quick exercise that illustrates why that might be so. Identify a current work situation that you think is being badly handled...
How Virtual Managers Can Lead Effectively
By:Kristi Hedges Go into most companies these days and you’ll witness hand wringing around the complexities of managing a virtual workforce. Studies show that 80 percent of managers deal with dispersed teams, which may include managing people in remote locations, other countries, or in home-based...
Need Career Advice? Exercise and Climb a Tree
There’s nothing like a great metaphor to make a point. I often look for metaphors that illustrate my mission to help women “Find the Work that Fits Your Life”, and I love one I just saw on the Levo League web site that equates building a career with climbing trees. In the Levo League article, “6...
INSPIRATION: Change vs. Stress
I’m putting my house of 23 years up for sale this week. The family and I are packing up and right sizing for our last summer before we’re part time empty-nesters. (A close family, we anticipate holiday nests stuffed full for years to come.) It feels like the end of the world in some ways as we...
Mind Over Medicine: Exercising Your Power To Extinguish Burnout
We all have a power story. In 2009 I was working in international business development for an education company. I was working 60+ hours a week covering meetings from Singapore to Dubai. I was stretched beyond my comfort zone in all aspects of my life (knowledge, skills and sleep), but I loved the...