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Ride the Rapids
Are you treading water or are you riding the rapids with your life? 🛟 If you are living a life treading water, yes, you are staying...
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Make Your Hours Count
Small Business Owners, Working harder (more hours, more days, canceling vacations, etc.) does not improve results. Let me say that louder...
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What If the Anchor Was You?
What if the anchor was you? We tend to blame others around us when things don't go as planned but what if we turned inward? What would we...
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Take the Vacation
I had a coaching client once that was NOT a good vacation taker. His family didn't like this, obviously. And he didn't like it, either....
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Change Management is Bumpy
I was recently consulting with an executive team. We were rolling something big out company-wide, and it was...bumpy. This isn't anyone's...
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Making Difficult Decisions
When I work with clients who are facing a difficult decision (ex: Option A vs. Option B), and they're not sure what to do, I ask them...
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Why Have One When You Can Have Both?
Coaching or consulting. Why have one when you can have both? There are so many articles and content pieces out there talking about the...
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Leading from the Balcony and the Dance Floor
Have you ever heard of "leading from both the balcony and the dance floor?" It's a concept that's part of adaptive leadership—a...
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You Hold the Power
Never underestimate the power you hold.... And I don't mean position power, I mean the type of power you have to positively enhance the...
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Personal and Professional Growth Go Hand-in-Hand
Before we can truly position our businesses for growth, WE need to grow. Personal growth and professional growth go hand-in-hand. It...
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Chief Everything Officer
Show of hands: Are you the "Chief Everything Officer" at your company? Small business owners, I see you. The buck stops with you, right?...
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Congratulations! You Now Lead the Worst Department
"Congratulations, you got the job. By the way, you are now leading one of the worst departments in the organization." That's what I...
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I'm Not Sure What Needs to Be Fixed
"I need help but I'm not quite sure what needs to be fixed." As a consultant, organizational leaders call me when they know something...
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The Messy Middle of Change
Ah....the messy middle..... going through change or a transformation is like organizing your closet..... You walk in and everything is...
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5 Signs It's Time to Fire a Client
Clients are the best — until they aren’t. 😉 But how do you know when it’s time to fire them? What are those so-called “red flags”? In my...
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Career Hindsight Bucket List
What’s On Your “Career Hindsight Bucket List”? If I peeked at your professional “bucket lists” would I see things such as: - Working for...
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Identifying Your Core Values
I was working with a coaching client once, when they admitted to me sheepishly that they "didn't know their core values." My immediate...
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Locking the Front Door with the Back Door Wide Open
Have you ever left your house and locked the front door — only to come home and realize that your back door was wide open the whole time?...
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What Do You See When You Look in the Mirror?
Do you see all of the potential you have? Because I do. Every single time. And when I see people not living up to their potential, it...
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Create a Space Where Those That Leave Us Can Attest to Having Had a Positive Experience
23 yrs. ago, I interviewed with Bill Young of Williams Young for their Firm Administrator role. (The day before my wedding, I might add!)...
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