Three Steps to a Truer Life
The older I get, the more I try to answer for myself, “Why can’t we just be ourselves?” and “Why do we fling ourselves so far from our core in the first place?” I have heard this return to ourselves is especially salient in our forties. I am not there (yet!) to...
The Feedback Handbook: Be Awesome at Giving (and Getting!) Feedback
One of the most challenging skill sets we need to learn as leaders is the art of giving, and receiving, feedback. It doesn’t HAVE to be hard, but we don’t often learn how to do it well, we don’t like practicing, and we hope we can get by without it....
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....
Big Work
I just passed my thirty-eighth birthday. Turning 38 in a COVID year equated to enjoying some chocolate cake in sweet silence, reveling in the excitement of a new Pyrex bowl set (with lids though!) and the gift of not cooking dinner all week. Much of the last year has...
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