Challenges

I recently found myself on the other side of coaching and want to share the experience with you. Yes, it involves a dragon boat: a long boat with 18 oarsmen. I agreed to be a dragon boat oarsman [...]

A friend of mine is teaching a finance class at the University of Iowa and he asked me to share my solopreneur story. As I contemplated my talk, I took time to consider which elements of my [...]

Being accessible is important when you’re a manager with a team to lead. But what happens when your team takes advantage of that accessibility and interruptions threaten to sabotage your own [...]

You won’t find me in front of a TV very often, and when you do, one of the last things I’m probably watching is a reality TV series. But (surprise!) a couple of weeks ago I actually watched some [...]

As summer comes to a close and a new school year begins, I’m inspired to do a sort of personal reset. I like to take time to think about my personal and professional goals for the academic year [...]

Find the lesson, even if a training seminar doesn’t have immediate applicability. It was one of a dozen “training” sessions I attended that year. Luckily, opportunities to learn about a new idea [...]

But the craziest dream of all … is the one that starts a million more. I saw this commercial for the first time when I was watching the US  Women’s National Soccer Team play Thailand in the [...]

Cliché but true; it’s all about the little things. The smallest gestures to acknowledge others (or lack thereof) send a powerful message. The new employee in Accounting brings about twenty years [...]

Predictability increases trust. The long holiday weekend provided a wonderful excuse to get together with some girlfriends. We sat in a corner of the bar catching up on recent life events. Our [...]

Recently, I invited a group of colleagues* to discuss the book, Insight, by Tasha Eurich. Here is what I gleaned from the dialogue. Insight #1: The definition of self-awareness While this might [...]