The Volatility Handbook: How to Thrive in Times of Change
We live in a world filled with volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. Adopt these ten actions to Thrive in Times of Change.
Personal Development
Amplify Executive Excellence: Ten Key Development Areas for Effective Leadership
Amplify Executive Excellence and increase your leadership effectiveness by adopting these ten developmental areas.
Six Actions To Help You Scale As A Leader
Many leaders plateau in their careers due to their inability to scale. Apply these six actions to help you scale as a leader.
Episode 15: Development Action Plans: Use These Models to Achieve Predictable Results
The secret to creating effective development action plans is to leverage proven methods to develop skills that last.
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Development Action Plans: Use These Models to Achieve Predictable Results
Use a proven learning model, effective goal structures and constructive feedback to create effective development action plans.
Episode 14: A Practical Guide to Help Identify Your Gaps
To make progress on your career plan, understand the requirements of the roles along the path, inventory your skills, and identify your gaps.
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Mind Your Gaps: A Practical Guide to Help Identify Your Gaps
To make progress on your career plan, understand the requirements of the roles along the path, inventory your skills, and identify your gaps.
Episode 13: The Eight Elements of Effective Career Planning
In this podcast, I discuss eight elements that will help define your career plan and increase the odds of your long term plans coming true.
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The Eight Elements of Effective Career Planning
Before we plan our career we need to plan our lives, family and finances. We can then use these eight elements to plot our career trajectory.
Episode 12: How To Effectively Promote Yourself
Self-promotion can be awkward. To do it successfully we need an approach. In this podcast, I’ll provide you a way to create an effective plan.
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Self-Promotion: How To Effectively Promote Yourself
Self-promotion can make us feel awkward. To do it successfully, we need a plan. In this article I provide you with steps to create a plan.
Book Review: Daring Greatly
Brené Brown bases her book “Daring Greatly” on Theodore Roosevelt’s 1910 speech, “The Man in the Arena”, states vulnerability is a strength.
Book Review: The Culture Map
In The Culture Map, Erin Meyer guides us through situations where people from starkly different backgrounds are expected to work harmoniously together.
The Five Benefits of Effective Delegation
Delegation is a critical skill for leaders to develop. Some leaders feel that their value is based on individual contributions and they become overwhelmed.
Book Review: Triggers
Bestselling author Marshall Goldsmith in his book “Triggers”, examines the environmental and psychological triggers that can derail us at work and in life.
Episode 06: Retirement Planning – The Missing Ingredient In Career Plans
Retirement planning is a critical component of career planning. In this podcast, I outline seven steps that can help you achieve your retirement goals.
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Episode 05: A Practical Guide to Influencing and Achieving Win-Win Outcomes
We rarely spend time learning how t improve our influencing skills. In this podcast, I discuss eight actions you can use to achieve win-win outcomes.
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Episode 04: How to Effectively Manage Your Personal Brand
In this podcast episode, I discuss seven steps that will help you increase your personal brand by leveraging my Personal Product Management strategy.
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Episode 03: Improve your Executive Presence with These Six Behaviors
In this podcast I discuss my definition of executive presence and I detail the six behaviors that can make an immediate positive impact on your brand!
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Episode 02: What to do While Waiting for a Promotion or if you Don’t Get It
In this podcast episode, I discuss some things you should consider doing while you wait for a promotion and how to handle being passed over for one.
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Feedback: How to Receive, Process and Use It
Feedback is a very important part of our work. We should know how to receive, process and use it properly. This article provides a guide on how to do so.
Executive Presence: Elevate your Brand with These Six Behaviors
Nearly 90 percent of high-level executives believe developing executive presence helps people get ahead. The following guide will help develop this skill.
Time Management: Regain Control of Your Day
Globalization, advances in technology and device connectivity have extended our workday. It is no surprise so many people struggle with time management.
Influencing: A Practical Guide To Achieving Win-Win Outcomes
We spend our lives influencing others. We rarely take the time to learn how to effectively use this skill. This article outlines an effective approach.
Presentation Fear: Seven Actions to Increase Your Confidence
Seventy percent of Americans who give presentations agree that presentation skills are critical to their success. Forty percent have presentation fear.
Self-Awareness: The Key to Professional Growth
During my three decades as a corporate executive and professional coach, I have realized that the most important skill for professional development and growth is honest and objective self-awareness.
The Promotion Waiting Game: What To Do While Waiting for the Big Moment
Waiting to get promoted can be a very exciting time in one’s career. Receiving the promotion can re-energize the recipient and often reengages the person in their work. Not receiving the promotion can be disappointing. In this article I share some of my thoughts about these life-impacting events.
Employee Engagement: Are You Fully Engaged?
According to a recent study by Gallup, 85% of employees are not engaged or are actively disengaged at work. Why is it so high and what can we do about it? This article provides some tips on how improve engagement levels at work.
Personal Product Management: How to Effectively Manage Your Personal Brand
Most people don’t stop to think that we are a “product” and rarely have a Personal Product Management strategy. Managing your “product” well will improve your image and increase your value. Here are some tips on how to achieve both.
Increase your Influence at Work
I ran across a great article on the Harvard Business Review website on how to Increase your Influence at Work. The author made some very good suggestions on how Increasing your Influence at Work can help improve your results.
Get a Coach
Some of you may have already seen Atul Gawande deliver a Ted Talk titled “Want to get great at something? Get a coach”, but I thought I would post it as it really hit a note with me.