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The Power of the Work Break: What Might Surprise You
Your days can easily drain you with constant meetings, endless emails, messages on your computer and phone, to-do lists, and more. Taking a break at work can boost your energy and productivity, giving you mental clarity while decreasing stress. But did you know that it matters how and when you take that break? And did you know that there are definite no-no’s when it comes to taking a break?
This is why being intentional about how and when you take breaks matters.
Reaching your full potential isn’t an unattainable quest. It’s far easier than you think.
Reaching your full potential is not just a dream. However, many of us have the wrong assumptions about what it really means to reach our full potential. We look for it in the wrong places, establish unrealistic goals, and set bars that make little sense. Most importantly, we don't know how to define it. As a result, we often feel like we haven't reached our full potential.
Nurturing Personal Sustainability: Balancing Your Well-being While Saving the Planet
Are you dedicated to the environmental or sustainability sector, working tirelessly to solve the planet's most pressing issues? As you race to save the Earth, do you find it challenging to maintain your personal well-being and sustainability? Many in this sector are so committed to the global good that they neglect their own balance and happiness.
The Success Deception: How Our Culture of Busyness Undermines Our Happiness
A client once shared she felt she wasn’t achieving enough. She said, “I should probably be ‘doing more’ in my career.” And yet, my client had built a life balancing a successful career while maintaining plenty of time to be with her family. When asked whether she was happy and satisfied, she said yes. It occurred to me she might need to revisit what success meant on her terms.
From Scattered to Collected: 3 Steps to an Intentional Work Week
There is absolutely nothing like starting your work day feeling like you are about to be sucked into the vortex. Instead of YOU being in control, you succumb to the roller coaster of meetings and demands that are on your schedule. Before you know it, the week is over and you aren’t quite sure you got done anything you really intended.
Peak Mental Fitness: Becoming Your Inner Jedi
What is going on when your brain is sabotaged? First and foremost, you feel a flood of negative emotions. And those emotions are driven by how you are thinking about the situation.
Your best strategies for dealing with challenging co-workers
One of the top issues I hear about from my clients is the ‘difficult’ co-worker. This is the person in your work life whose behavior so affects your day, it can eclipse everything else that is going on.
Difficult co-workers can be just about anyone at work. They can be show up as bullies, slackers, complainers, passive aggressive, or nit-pickers. We know who they are but we can feel powerless interacting with them.
Strengths Are Key To Creating Impact as an Environmental Leader
Ask anyone whose career is dedicated to protecting the planet and they will tell you about their important work to protect land, air, water and human health. For the tens of thousands of leaders working on environmental conservation and protection, they measure impact by certain indicators.
6 Easy Self-Care Tips that Take Less than 10 Minutes
Let me guess. When you are stressed out, you are less likely to take good care of yourself. You know that self-care is most essential when you are stressed, overwhelmed, tired, or under pressure. But it also seems that when you need self-care, you don’t have any time.
It’s time for managers to focus on well-being – not just burnout.
Last year dealt a devastating blow to well-being. By December 2020, Americans who were considered their life to be ‘thriving’ hit a 12 year low. Americans rated their well-being at their lowest levels since the Great Recession of 2008.
Want to be more compatible with your co-workers? Know their communications style.
Workplace communication is probably one of the top issues I hear about as an executive coach. Managers who are dealing with staff that seem uncooperative. Staff who report bosses who pick favorites leaving them insecure. Team members who are unsuccessfully navigating challenging situations with co-workers.
How We Fail To Create New Habits — and What Works Better
When we begin to think about make positive changes, a little dialogue in our head emerges that might sound like this:
“If I am truly going to change then I need to finally be more determined and truly make the changes that are needed – big changes – or else it will never happen. And frankly, I’m not going to even try unless I can do it right. Once I finally make the big changes that are needed, I will finally see the change I hope for.”
Craft Your Career Around Your Strengths – Not Your Passions
Several years ago, I had a eureka moment.
For decades I had been following my life-long passion to address critical global environmental issues. I loved what I was doing but increasingly over the years the day-to-day work drained me. I was finding that many parts of my job, which I could aptly do, were draining for me, rather than nourishing me. It wasn’t enough that I could capably do things; I needed to focus on those things that were innately my true strengths!
What Not to do When Figuring Out Your Life Purpose (& What to do Instead)
What is a purpose driven life? For many people it feels like the million dollar question. For those in search of this ‘holy grail,’ it’s a life mission.
How We are Failing the Nonprofit Workplace
After 30 years of experience as an employee, manager, and now executive coach to the nonprofit workforce, I can safely make this key observation: our style of management is no longer working.
All too often, nonprofit leaders and managers struggle with what is the right type of management in the workplace.
Make the Holidays Work for You: Your 16-Tip Guide to Beat the Stress, Relax, and Recharge
A guide to help you through this time of year so you can arrive to January feeling rested, de-stressed, and happy with your holiday celebration. Even if you get swept up into the holiday plans, there are plenty things you can do to design your holiday to work for you.
What sets apart great managers?
There are as many styles of management as there are managers. There are likely hundreds of books on leadership all with a different recommendation for success. But there is one quality that sets truly great managers apart from the rest: they discover what is unique about each person and then capitalize on it.
Work Smarter: Get Off Auto-Pilot and Create a Productive Work Day
How often do you end your work day thinking, “Wow, I just worked a whole lot, but didn’t get much done.”
You walk into work and face what feels like a tsunami of emails not to mention a totally packed calendar. Everyone requests your time. You open your email to dozens of requests that take you away from your core work. These emails flow in all day long – ping, ping, ping – asking for your time. People contact you for favors. You are invited to join meetings.
As your work piles up, you become more and more anxious. You try to multi-task but that just leaves you feeling even more overwhelmed. Your brain isn’t focused at all. Before long, your day is over. And nothing on your to-do list is scratched off.
This is a day on auto-pilot.
Grow Your Career and Seize Your Success: 18 Questions to Ask as You Career Plan
Are you wondering where you should take your career?
If someone asked you, “Where do you want your career to be in a decade, would you have an answer?”
You go into work every day and focus on your to-do list. But you might wonder whether you should also focus on career planning and growth.
Create Your Own Brilliant Morning Routine – Grab Your FREE Workbook Here!
Always wondered if it would be possible to create a satisfying morning routine that helped you create great days? Answer: YES. The way you start your day can have a profound impact on your entire day. In fact, your morning routine can affect your entire life. I have seen the results in my own life, and you can do the same.