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Crushing your Fourth Quarter Goals!
The way to achieve your goals is to stay focused. My logical brain loves to take goals and break them down into smaller “bite size” pieces. What do you want to focus on for this last quarter of the year? This easy three-step system will help you define and achieve...
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What is Confidence and how do I get it?
“Confidence is not they will like me, confidence is I will be fine if they don’t” Cristina Grimme In all of my conversations about leadership and success, confidence is a must have. Required for meeting presentation, communicating with both managers and direct...
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The Picture Within
Have you ever looked at a picture of you and known that what you saw was so far from the truth? The picture above shows that for me! It is impossible to envision from this beautiful picture of my family, the unrest that preceded it. It is not clear that I had just...
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Step out of your tired career rut and get energized
“I’m ready to just quit and stay home and try to create a family” This quote from a woman who works in a large Pharmaceutical Company, made me so sad to hear! After numerous years spent earning higher degrees, blazing her path as a woman in science, she was too tired...
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Crushing (ok working on) My Speaking Anxiety!
For all of my life I have been in roles that required leadership and the ability to speak. When I was young, it was second nature. I had no problem talking to anyone. My siblings like to say I could make a friend at a rock fight. Perhaps it came from being the...
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Plato’s 3 Conditions for a Successful Client Engagement
Plato's 3 Conditions for a Successful Client Engagement — including a simple qualifying test. Ever work with a client who ends up being a complete tyrant? Plato did. He had a really, really bad client experience. And when I say really bad, I mean, he barely escaped...
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The Untethered Soul
I believe in synchronicity. When multiple people tell me the same thing, especially 3 or more times, then I really pay attention. That's what happened with this book The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer. I had participants in my coaching workshops telling me I HAD...
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Clarify, Strategize, Plan, Act, Realize, the innerOvation method for problem solving!
During a recent breakfast chat with a leader of a 30-person service company I was posed the following question, “How do I get my supervisors to keep their members off their cell phones during work hours?”. I laughed aloud and then retorted so what? As the...
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How to avoid a values collision
I wake up at 6 to get the train moving. I shower and am ready, when disaster hits. My youngest son comes into the kitchen, teary holding his ears. I have a new client starting this morning. What do I do now? Obviously my son needs to see a doctor. How do I do that...
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Thought-Weeds and Thought-Seeds
In a recent teambuilding session we were celebrating spring and I asked them the following question: If you were a flower, what would you be and why? Here were some of the responses: Sunflower - because it is warm and bright and when I see one it make me feel light...
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