If you’re feeling restless or you simply need to step back and take stock, it might be time for an alignment check. This is a practice I use regularly for both myself and my clients. It can be empowering, clarifying, and even energizing! If you don’t need this right now, pin it for a time … Read more
I’m sensitive to people’s wisdom. When someone speaks from their inner knowing and they are aligned with what they’re saying, their words ring differently, like a clear bell. I feel it in my body. I love it. From many years of experience, I’ve learned to trust someone when they speak from that place. So, you … Read more
In Part 1, you’ve taken the time to expand, create, and document your vision and strategy. Now it’s time to communicate it and enroll others in it. This is a big responsibility, and just as important as the vision or strategy itself. Unless you are an army of one, your vision/strategy needs others to become … Read more
One of the most important things you do as a leader is to vision, strategize, and share your vision and strategy with others. Your team, stakeholders, board, etc., need to see and hear the future map from you. Yet, even seasoned leaders ask me, “How do I prioritize time to vision and strategize?” A big … Read more
Satisfying, fulfilling, low-drama collaboration – it’s the dream, right? It amplifies our efficacy and impact, opens more options and opportunities, and can be so much fun. But how do you cultivate and curate the best collaborative relationships? How do you avoid disconnect, conflict, painful miscommunications, and failed projects? First of all, rough and painful collaborations … Read more
In the first article, Organizational Dysfunction Part 1: Claim your Power, we explored the #1 most powerful thing you can do in the face of toxic dysfunction – change your internal relationship to the situation. Sometimes, that’s all you need to do to create significant change. When that process doesn’t yield the change you need, … Read more
Why do people put up with toxic organizational dysfunction? It’s the question I started asking early in my career, and it’s a question I still explore with my clients today. I don’t mean run-of-the-mill challenges, miscommunications, etc. I mean chronic, systemic, damaging dysfunction. You know, the hair-pulling, tear-evoking kind where you are suppressing an urge … Read more
What would make this year a significantly better, more satisfying year for you? These are the questions my clients and I are sitting with this month. I know in my core that this year needs to be a radical upgrade from last year. Like many people, last year had its ups and downs, but in … Read more
Do you identify with your work? Do you feel your inherent value or worth is entwined with what you do every day? If so, you are not alone; this is quite common. It’s also a house of cards on which to build your confidence and self-worth. So, in this final article about grounded confidence, we … Read more
One of the biggest obstacles to maintaining grounded confidence is the war between opposites: arrogance and humility. We see this war everywhere, both internally and externally in our society. We have pressures to be humble which can lead to self-dismissal, not speaking up when needed, and not honoring our gifts and skills. We have different … Read more