What Is Most Important To You?
Coaching is easy. We ask questions that seem really easy to answer and confound the askee (is that a word) because they have never thought about the question before. So let me challenge you. What is most important to you right now? I call it WIMI. Let’s WIMI where you...
This one is so very personal…
These last 2 weeks in my life has been incredibly filled with mental noise and not much working well. Lots of potential for yelling and cussing out loud. And some “what the hell”. If you follow the Metaphysical world, it would have taken you to the fact that Mercury...
I know it is here somewhere…
It use to be grammas and grandpas were the ones who could not remember what they went to the next room for. With our current level of stress and anxiety, the “forgetting” is running through all ages. Everyone is so preoccupied and stressed, clear thinking seems to...
All Done – Completing My Coaching Journey
Yesterday was a happy/sad day for myself and one of my beloved coaching clients. After 5+ years of working together, she has matured to the point of “owning” her talents and strengths and truly knowing what they are and how to use them for herself. I could not be more...
Leadership Communication – Creating Clarity Easily
There can be some very definite challenges in our communication with teams, clients, prospects and peers. We are mostly moving too fast to communicate well while trying to complete a “to do” list that is probably way too long to accomplish ever. If you had to give...
Kids and Money and You
My beloved spring is here and I have so many weeds. It could be that is what I grow best. Actually, I don’t clean out my gardens and containers in the fall so the bugs and beetles and birds have places to hide and find yummy bugs. So I have weeds. Big ones with lots...
Spring – Our Lives Can Be Renewed
Hope is spring to me and spring time arouses hope. As a gardener and a curious sort, wandering around seeing the green tips of new life coming up from the dark, wet, cold earth NEVER gets old. I am sure if I were left in the earth through fall and winter, I would...
STOP!
In our leadership careers, we have read so many required books and heard numerous suggestions for: Creating a succession plan Communicating with difficult people Sales techniques for closing the deal with a prospect Management tips Budgeting for the short and long...
Leadership – Nothing Is Normal Now – Creating Relationship Strategies
Old Normal. New Normal. No Normal. Until 2020, the model for training, attracting and becoming a good leader was pretty obvious. We worked on creating best practices for the training effective leaders; designed good leadership succession programs for the organization;...
The RED Book
As I was preparing for the tornado watch this past weekend (which turned into a warning), I made sure that my RED Book was right by my laptop and phone. It is probably the most important physical piece of content in my home. WHY? It contains a physical copy of...
