Entrepreneurial conversations
What’s different between you and your CEO?
In a recent blog, I asked for podcast recommendations so I wanted to start by acknowledging all of you who responded to my last email with your own podcast recommendations – THANK YOU! I’m trying to upload some of them currently to my iPhone and making my way through so I appreciate the suggestions. Perhaps in…
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Is Your Team Only As Strong As Its Leader?
With Travis Kalanick’s departure from Uber, there are numerous blogs and funds watching to see if Uber can maintain its unicorn status and growth predictions without its number one leader and founder. In my mind that’s one big problem for Uber right there. Why is its leader seen as responsible for the company’s phenomenal success?…
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A Readiness Quiz & Guide To Determine If Leadership Coaching Would Work For You
Here’s a typical conversation I have at parties: Person: “So what do you do?” Me: “I’m an executive leadership coach.” Person:“Hmm, so what do you do exactly?” Me: “Well I’m really great at helping people improve their interpersonal interactions and relationships at work. I tend to work with corporate and business leaders who are very…
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People Skills: The 3 Must-Read Books to Help You Improve Yours Instantly
Or at least instantly get the ideas to help you improve them People skills, like any other skill, need constant updating, evolving and upgrading. Books are a great way to up-level your people management and leadership skills, easily and effectively.
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What Should You Do About Negative Feedback (Especially When It’s Personal)
“Across 248 reviews from 28 companies, managers, whether male or female, gave female employees more negative feedback than they gave male employees. Second, 76 percent of the negative feedback given to women included some kind of personality criticism, such as comments that the woman was “abrasive,” “judgmental” or “strident.” Only 2 percent of men’s critical…
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Leaders: 5 Signs Your People Skills Need Work
There is a theory called the “peter principle” that states that people get promoted to the job where they are the worst. And then they stay put. Which of course means many people have bosses who they believe are awful at their job…
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The Road To Hell Is Paved With. . .
The road to hell is paved with good intentions — right??? Have you noticed that there hasn’t been a blog post for over a month? Hmm. . . me neither apparently.
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What Would You Need To Change To Be More Visible At Work?
Last week I had new website photos taken (stay tuned for the launch in a month or so hopefully!). Not only did I have an amazing experience, which I know I will end with amazing new shots, I also gained new appreciation for what it takes to increase professional visibility and really be “seen.”
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Upcoming Classes & Workshops
Tired of listening to free webinars that take up sooo much of your time? Worst of all, you end up NOT even getting the advice you were looking forward to.
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Your New Year’s Resolutions: Where Are They Now?
Well, we are now at the end of January. Did you make New Year’s resolutions? Are you still on course? One of my biggest New Year’s goals was to do more schedule blocking. I have loved being an entrepreneur because of the flexibility it afforded me to schedule appointments whenever I needed to, volunteer at…
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