It may sound like stating the obvious, but your outlook on life, impacts your life. Outlook is powerful in that a positive vs. negative perspective has the capability of shaping our successes vs. fueling our failures, respectively. People generally have a disposition towards one perspective, which drives daily behavior. However, ultimately the choices you make […]
Personal Development
Getting a Promotion or a Raise: Asking Isn’t Enough
A simple, but generally unsuccessful approach to getting a promotion or a raise, is to ask for one. Another generally unsuccessful way is to ask for one merely because you have been at your job for a certain amount of time. And a sure way to guarantee that you won’t get a raise, is to […]
Addressing Challenges and Solving Problems: A 4-Step Approach
Each and every day, we are faced with at least one challenge—and that is probably on what many of us might consider a “light” day. Sometimes you call it challenges, other times problems. Whatever you call them, the idea of facing problems can be scary, but it gets significantly easier when you actually realize that […]
360 Assessments: How to Use Them Wisely
360 Assessments can be powerful, and that is the good news. The challenge is to appreciate the power and use them wisely: They can promote development—and are an essential tool in executive coaching. They are an opportunity to collect and report comprehensive data. And most importantly, the reports should be written as “working documents” that […]
Build Your Career: Get Out of Your Own Way
While it’s impossible for any of us to know exactly what the future holds, the more I work with my clients, the more convinced I become that some of biggest stumbling blocks about our careers are sometimes of our own making. Yes, there is uncertainty related to a job market that is volatile as well […]
4 Tips for Controlling Emotions at Work
We’ve all faced stress at work. Maybe a project you have been toiling on day and night was suddenly cancelled, perhaps a client berated you, seemingly out of nowhere, or a close work associate was laid off unexpectedly. No matter the situation, a different response is required in a professional environment as opposed to your […]
Possibilities and the Voice that Encourages or Discourages
How we frame any given situation that we are faced with in our life is everything. And the difference between success and failure is really determinant on our perceptions and the mindset we employ when we view the world around us. This isn’t a new concept, but it’s one that I explored recently when I […]
The Eisenhower Decision Matrix: Important vs. Urgent
The 34th President of the United States is the subject of today’s post—and in reality, an interesting case study in what effective executive leadership, focus, and prioritization looks like when related to productivity measures. A fact: Dwight Eisenhower lived an incredibly productive life, and here’s a bit of background if you aren’t familiar with who […]
It’s Killing Me! Turning Stress into Professional Fuel
No matter if you run your own business or if you are working on climbing the ladder to corporate success, stress is something that tends to be an issue for most people—and for high achievers, it can definitely be worse if it goes unmanaged. It is necessary to develop stress management skills. Life teaches you […]
How Long Do You Plan on Living?
I thought that headline might catch your attention. And I’m not joking. So what’s your answer? I know I am putting you on the spot right now, but that’s only because I recently had to face that question myself. When it was posed to me by my financial advisor, trust me when I say that […]
