Let’s be honest, being perfect isn’t worth your time. The extra time that you could take to make something perfect is most likely not going to make much of a difference. If this is you, then you spend time doing the extra work to make others happy, avoid criticism, and because you are trying to […]
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Blog, Boundaries, Making Decisions, perfection, Priorities, results, self-belief, visibility
A leader who doesn’t feel ready for leadership responsibilities will struggle to trust their abilities. They will compare themselves to everyone else, live with doubt and insecurity. They want to show up authentically, but because of their own doubts it isn’t easy for them. Brene Brown said that “authenticity is a practice and you choose it
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authenticity, Blog, Leadership, self-belief
Look at the choices that you make every day. Are you focused on doing the easy things that keep you in the background or the harder things that could put you into the spotlight? This isn’t always a conscious thought, but more than likely the easy things are what you already know and would be
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Blog, courage, Making Decisions, self-belief, visibility
If you don’t know anything is wrong, how can you change? One of my favorite quotes from Maya Angelou is “Do the best you can until you know better. When you know better, do better.” I have taken that to heart in so many ways in my business and as a coach. I have stopped
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accomplishments, Blog, risks, self-belief, visibility
“Now, what am I going to do?” It is the decision that every people pleasing leader dreads. They have held time for themselves to work on a project and someone else sends a meeting invite for the exact same time. Do they give their own time up to take that meeting and make the other
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Blog, courage, fear, self-belief, visibility
I wanted to share something that I thought was very inspiring today from Octavia Spencer. This partial video and link to her speech at the Kent State Commencement last year has so much great advice from someone whose life could have taken a much different path. Her life differed in ways that she couldn’t even
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Blog, self-beliefToday’s question: “The team that I took over has had little to no exposure in front of senior management. I know I need to help them get visibility. Where do I start?” This type of situation has happened to me. I took over a team that had been given no opportunities in front of senior
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Blog, perception, self-belief
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
I was working with one of my clients the other day and he shared that he didn’t think he had what it took to perform a senior level role. This is a person who has accomplished a lot in his career. Even though we detailed out his background and all the things that he accomplished,
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Advocacy, Blog, Coaching, Leadership, risks, self-belief
How many of you have thought about changing jobs or looking for a whole new career? I think that we all consider it when we are having a bad day, but how many people actually do it? I will share with you a bit about my story. I worked at the same company for 20+
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Blog, career change, Coaching, Confidence, risks, self-belief
It is the final game of the World Series tonight. The Chicago Cubs led for most of game 7 and then the Cleveland Indians tie it up 6-6 in the 8th inning, which forced them to go into extra innings. This could have caused the Cubs to wonder if they had it in them to come
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Blog, Coaching, Leadership, self-belief, Team Building
I am a big sports fan and wanted to share that two sports teams in Chicago had two big days this week. My Chicago Bears won on Monday Night Football. They have not had the best record this year, but I am happy that they did well and it helped me win in fantasy football
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Blog, Coaching, Confidence, Leadership, self-belief
Since it is Halloween, I thought it might be good to talk about things that are scary. No, I am not really talking about ghost and goblins, but what are the things that scare us and hold us back from moving forward? It is pretty common to be scared when you are trying something new.
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Blog, Coaching, Confidence, risks, self-belief
My very first team leader experience consisted of managing 3 direct reports and 20 indirect reports. Since this was a new experience for me, I asked for advice from some people who had been managing teams. What did they do to prepare themselves to lead a team? I pulled together their ideas and came up
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