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Five big mistakes to avoid when changing careers
Over the years, I’ve helped many experienced professionals successfully navigate to the next stage of their careers. These weren’t people making a job change; they wanted something different—something that leveraged their accumulated wisdom while aligning with their...
Five big mistakes to avoid when changing careers
An important part of any career shift process is minimizing risk. Here are some lessons learned about key traps, including one big one that I encountered on my own career re-mix project.
Leadership and Management Lessons from Losing Dad
In the past four months, I spent most of my time and energy advocating for my elderly father across a variety of healthcare facilities. He passed away during August, and while it was merciful for him, we’re left with a gigantic hole in our family and hearts.
There’s also a mix of guilt, frustration, and anger at much of the healthcare management, leadership, and delivery we encountered along the way.
Leadership Caffeine: A quiet period to support family
At points in life, we are all called to care for family members. This has been my role for the past five weeks and will be a part of my focus for the near future.
Leadership Caffeine — Do Something Courageous (60-second tips series)
In this brief video, I encourage you to take a step forward on one of those big, vexing issues that you’ve been delaying dealing with.
Leadership Caffeine — 60-second tips: raise your questions-to-comments ratio
The weekly 60-second leadership tip from leadership caffeine. This episode’s focus is on strengthening your questions-to-comments ratio to strengthen your effectiveness.
How the upcoming Leadership Caffeine Jam Session can help you amplify your impact
Our 3/28 noon central Leadership Caffeine Jam Session (Register Here) features Joel Garfinkle, a leading executive coach and one of the world’s experts on executive presence. If you work in an organization and are interested in solving problems, improving processes, exploring and gaining support for innovations, key changes, and strategies, you must cultivate and strengthen how others experience you.
Leadership Caffeine — 60-second leadership tips: frame your day for success
Who doesn’t like starting and ending their day with that feeling that you accomplished something positive? In one minute, learn a powerful, practical approach to framing your day for success!
Four Ideas to Improve Workplace Communication
In approximately 800 hours of executive and manager coaching each year, the one issue that arises in almost every call is a communication challenge. Here are four sets of ideas you can implement yourself or with your team to strengthen communication effectiveness.
Scale your impact as a manager—six areas where you need to do the heavy lifting
For those with managerial experience striving to scale their impact, there are at least six key areas to focus on developing your skills and abilities.
Thinking of Managing? Six reasons why you might love this role
I run a variation of this post the day before every New(er) Manager Development cohort kick-off. Here are six reasons why you might love the role of manager.