Gratitude is the Secret to “Likability”

Gratitude is the Secret to “Likability”

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...
What We Mean By Trust—And How Leaders Can Grow It

What We Mean By Trust—And How Leaders Can Grow It

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...
Getting Past the Drama at Work

Getting Past the Drama at Work

Resolving conflict at work means you have to address the task and relationship challenges honestly and directly, with thoughtful language, curiosity, and a spirit of compromise. But none of that can happen if you don’t let go of the drama. Kayla and Will work in the...
Leveraging Positive Visualization for High Performance

Leveraging Positive Visualization for High Performance

Instead of coming at a challenge from a place of fear or with a deficit/scarcity mindset, we can truly view it as an opportunity and have the confidence that will help create the future we really want to realize. In a recent executive coaching session with one of my...