User manuals should evolve as you learn and grow. They’re meant to facilitate understanding and communication, not create rigid rules or expectations. In my years of coaching senior leaders through transitions and transformations, I’ve noticed a common...
When it’s time for your annual review, you can either be a passenger or a driver. The key to getting what you need from your performance review is asking the right questions. One of my coaching clients, Eddie*, was preparing for his annual performance review. He...
If you’ve ever considered teaching in higher education, either part-time or full-time, here is everything you need to know to make the transition from professional life to academia. “I’m not even sure I was an official employee of the university for my first night of...
Gratitude turns your focus from inward to outward, from reactive to proactive, from passive to active. At dinner recently, a friend mentioned that she would have had no career at all if “likability” weren’t her superpower. She humbly claimed to have almost no other...
Most of us think of trust as a single factor: you either have it or you don’t. But that way of thinking is too simplistic. In reality, we trust the people in our lives in different ways and for different purposes. “I’ll take a look at that tomorrow,” a former...
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