2013 is right around the corner so it’s time to start evaluating our work-life balance success for 2012 and start setting goals for next year – professionally and personally. In this three part video series, and December webinar on the subject, we’ll look at ways to format and set goals that will...
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INSPIRATION: Gratitude
All ready for Thanksgiving on Thursday? In the U.S. we love to look forward to this day of family and food. And we love to dread a few traditions that usually come along with family and food, too. Here’s a little secret to managing the dread and the nutty buildup at the office as we get ready for...
Taking the Reins: Turning EMpowered Employees into INpowered Leaders
This is my second reference to the book Turn The Ship Around, by David Marquet. It’s such a good book on empowering leadership I recommend it to any leader or aspiring leader. Empowering leadership is not easy. Here is one secret to it that I particularly like. Have you ever met someone who’s...
Building Your Personal Brand Through Your Social Career Strategy
Please welcome special guest blogger, Heidi Lorenzen, President of Marketing Moksha, who’s turning her extreme marketing knowledge to helping us think about how to use social media to shape your personal brand. Heidi and I are giving a free webinar on this subject soon, so join us for this too!...
How To Make The Money You Deserve Without “Selling Out”
Recently, I led a career coaching workshop for four incredibly accomplished women at Harvard. They were worried about finding careers and making their way in work and life as they headed towards graduation. Specifically, they wanted to be able to “make money without selling out.” And they’re not...
How to Stop Your Noisy Brain
In the past 20 years, some controversial research suggests that at any given moment, women have more activity in their brains than men. The corpus collosum that connects the right and left hemispheres of the brain is larger in women, allowing for more movement across the hemispheres. This accounts...
Starting Up vs. Consulting: 5 Lessons For Success
By: Allie Siarto When I started my business with two other partners at age 24, I was a great consultant — but a mediocre business owner. Like many others who start their own businesses to do what they love, I was completely focused on executing the work, and I had a lot to learn about running the...
I’m Not Ready Yet… Why Women Don’t Get Paid For Their Potential
I have a female client, J, transitioning careers who just woke up to how she’s getting in her own way – and mustering the courage to stop. This post celebrates her, and every other woman who’s decided to “get ready to be ready” to take that next step and talk up her achievements for the next job,...
Best Career Advice I’ve Ever Heard
By: Kristi Hedges Executive coaches are sometimes called corporate shrinks. And while most of us would argue vehemently that what we do doesn’t approach psychological therapy — and we’re careful to steer clear of it — we will admit that we hear lots of private thoughts. Our entire job is...
Leadership Skills Outside Your Comfort Zone
So you’ve just gotten that great opportunity you’ve wanted for so long. You got the promotion! Woo hoo! You settle into your new office, put the higher pay in your monthly budget, meet your colleagues, receive the key to the bathroom and put that first board meeting on your calendar. Then the...