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I’m trying something different this year and instead of looking ahead, I’m looking back. Reflecting on past wins and losses can be just as motivating as listing goals for the new year. And, as [...]

I recently had the opportunity to meet someone who was completely self-aware. She was a woman who had a big job, a fancy title, and a ton of responsibilities. And yet what was most intriguing [...]

I grew up playing board games, so when my client compared the feedback process with a former employer to Operation (originally produced by Milton Bradley, now produced by Hasbro), I knew exactly [...]

Leaders never graduate from the school of self-awareness. I heard this line in a podcast and found it extremely meaningful. I am reminded that self-awareness is a continual journey, not a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Of all the potentially fabulous ways to spend a day in Las Vegas, most people wouldn’t pick sitting in a hotel conference room with a dozen strangers. But that’s exactly what I did last week when [...]

I’ve been hearing a lot of bad job-departure stories recently and this has me thinking about how organizations handle employee off-boarding. There’s a lot of emphasis on hiring employees. HR [...]

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 [...]

Do you think to talk or talk to think? His words were blunt: “When you don’t say anything, I assume you have nothing to contribute.” My colleague’s assumption was completely false. But I [...]