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Three Steps to a Truer Life
Why can’t we just be ourselves? Why do we fling ourselves so far from our core in the first place? We can design our life. Our time. Our boundaries. Our schedule. What we give energy and attention to. It is, inconveniently, an inside job.
10 (No, 12!) Tools for Better Meetings
Check out my new, comprehensive guide that has ten, no, twelve (!) tools you can use to build better meetings. Each one can get you a little closer to meetings that feel incredibly effective and useful.
The Feedback Handbook: Be Awesome at Giving (and Getting!) Feedback
The Feedback Handbook is full of tools you can add to your leadership tool kit to give effective feedback as well as how to ask for (and actually receive) the specific feedback you need to better your own work.
Master the One-on-One Conversations With Your Team Members
I have heard from so many leaders that they struggle to make consistent time for 1-on-1 conversations with their team members, or that they only end up talking about the "stuff," like the project To-Do items or urgent shiny objects that popped up that day. The...
Let’s Feel Whole Again in 2021: The 2021 Whole Self Planning Guide
Shake off the stuck feeling with my 2021 Whole Self Planning Guide. It will help you assess every aspect of where you are at, and prioritize where you want to go.
A Breakdown of the Hardest Question Ever Posed to Me
The hardest question ever posed to me required me to upend a life-long belief system and rewrite the world as I knew it. The question was this: “How do you define success?” Wait, there is more than one way to define success?
Give What You Need
Six months of staying home with my two young children to keep all of us safe has traveled the full spectrum of emotions. My most effective solutions during difficult days has been to implement the exact sentiment that I desperately needed in the moment. Give what you need, and it will come back to you.
Life & Leadership Podcast: Mentoring & Sponsorship—Bringing Others with You
In this podcast episode, we’re sharing the distinctions among mentoring, sponsorship and coaching and describing how to build a network of supporters who can solve any problem that might come up. We explore what makes an effective mentor and why it’s crucial to define what you want the mentoring relationship to look like.
Life & Leadership Podcast: Wayfinding for the Weary Entrepreneur, with E. Keller Fitzsimmons
Today, we’re joined by E. Keller Fitzsimmons, the author of Lost in Startuplandia: Wayfinding for the Weary Entrepreneur, accomplished tech entrepreneur and artist. Listen in for Kelly’s insight on how to cultivate the self-belief it takes to move through heartbreak and live your purpose.
Our Companies Are About to Squeeze Working Parents Dry
I have long felt that support for parents was a low-hanging opportunity for organizations to improve upon. But for parents as work starts “opening up” but schools and childcare do not, support from employers who “get it” will be critical. Parents are tired, and it might just be getting even harder for them.
Creating Superb Teams (Using 6 Team Conditions), with Dr. Ruth Wageman and Dr. Krister Lowe
Today, on the Life and Leadership Podcast, we are joined by Dr. Ruth Wageman and Dr. Krister Lowe, the creators of the 6 Team Conditions Framework and Team Diagnostic Survey. Listen in to hear about the 3 essentials and the 3 enablers that make up the 6 Team Conditions Framework, the most common dysfunctions they encounter in teams, and how to fix them with brilliant collaboration.
SUBSCRIBE TO THE LIFE & LEADERSHIP PODCAST
Check out The Life & Leadership Podcast, where we share ideas, real life stories, and inspiration for powerful people to level up. Tegan Trovato (www.brightarrowcoaching.com) and Katie Rasoul (Team Awesome) are recovering HR executives and professional life & leadership coaches. In each episode, they’ll help you tap into your personal power and take your life and career to the “next level.”
Tegan & Katie are committed to helping others discover their inner mission and rise to their highest potential. And they are working on it every day themselves. Are you ready to transform how you lead and live? Find us anywhere you listen to your podcasts.
