Communication is something that we do every day. New decisions are made or some new request is brought up and you do your best to get the information out to your team. When you are in so many meetings, leading a project and a team it becomes a challenge every single day. How can you […]
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Blog, communicationsWhen I started working many years ago, I showed initiative, solved problems and got things done. I was rewarded for it, so I continued to work a lot of hours and do those same things throughout my career. When I started to lead a team, I should
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Blog, delegation, Leadership, Team Building
It is a huge challenge to juggle everything that needs to be completed between work and home. Our to-do lists continue to grow, no matter how many things are crossed off. This creates that feeling of being overwhelmed. Being able to create boundaries in your life can help reduce the feeling of being overwhelmed and
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Blog, Boundaries, delegation, focus, Priorities
I was thinking about stress, balance and how sleep impacts your life. Thanks to the world of electronics, you can track your sleep now. I started using an app on my iPhone called Sleep Cycle to track my sleep. (you can try the free trial version.)
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Be Present, Blog, self-care, stress
Creating a vision is an important step for a leader to communicate to their team or organization. Leaders need to be able to confidently articulate the vision for their team or organization in such a way that people believe in it and see that it is possible. A vision is defined as a high-level outcome
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Blog, Confidence, vision
I have talked about trusting your gut in some of my other posts when it comes to decision making. There are times where you are dealing with such an ambiguous situation that you may not have anything else to go on. We even had buttons in our office that said “ambiguity is my friend” on
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Blog, Coaching, Leadership, Making DecisionsIf you have ever seen a picture of an iceberg you know that there is a portion of it that rises above the water and the rest is below the water. This is the perfect metaphor for a leader. Above the surface it is calm and everything appears to be good. Below the surface, however, there
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Blog, Confidence, Leadership
For the rest of the week, I am going to dive a little deeper into the leadership traits that were covered in the post that I did yesterday. If you missed it, you can read it here. Initially, there were two leadership traits that were very challenging for me to learn. This could be because
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Blog, Confidence, empowerment, Leadership, Team Building
My first role with direct reports was a new role that didn’t exist before. I had three direct reports and oversight of the daily activities of 22 indirect reports. It was a little overwhelming at the time. The great thing was I got to make up what the role would do, how it would work
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authenticity, Blog, Confidence, Leadership
Part of why I enjoy writing this blog is that I get to learn new things as I research topics to write about. One of my strengths is a love of learning so this fits in perfectly for me. What is even better for all of you is that I share the ones that I
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Blog, self-esteem
Opportunities come along every day, but are you ready for them when they happen? It would be great if you could predict what to know and when to be ready, but you can’t. All you can do is to prepare yourself as much as you can, be ready to learn on the job and
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Blog, Coaching, focus, preparing, self-belief
The beginning of the year is the time of the year to clean the slate and try new things. What things have you been thinking about, but haven’t put into action yet? What is holding you back? So many people that I work with have a
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Blog, career change, Coaching, focus, self-belief
Today’s article was written by Mona Reiser, a guest contributor and one of my former managers. (You can see more about her at the end of the article.) She is one of the smartest leaders that I know and I am so honored that she is sharing one of her stories on my blog. I
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Blog, Building Relationships, Leadership, Team Building
I heard an interesting podcast today on the subject of being an impostor. This is something that many people feel throughout their career. Here are some of the questions that go through an impostor’s mind: “What if people find out I don’t know everything that I should? What if they realize I am not ready
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authenticity, Blog, Coaching, imposter, Leadership
During this time of year, parents all over the country are getting up at 4:30 am in the morning on the weekends to drive their children to all-day regional volleyball tournaments. Some people even fly out of state for the national tournaments. This didn’t really exist when I was younger, or at least I didn’t
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Be Present, Blog, Coaching, focus