The Blog
What’s No Longer Serving You?
I injured my back over a year ago and while I was recovering, I dialed down the intensity of my workouts. I needed that habit for awhile. It helped me heal. It’s now outlived its usefulness and I need a new set of habits. The same is true at work. Habits outlive their...
What I’ve Learned the Hard Way – Clarity & Transparency in Decision Making
One of my more painful career debacles was facilitating a staff team through return to office planning. There’s plenty to unpack from that experience but there’s one key lesson underneath several of my missteps. I lacked – and failed to provide – clarity in the scope...
What are Your Steadfast Personal Work Truths?
How do you set yourself up to thrive at work? What do you need in your environment, your schedule and your relationships to be at your best? Sometimes these needs or conditions float just beneath our conscious awareness … only vaguely recognized when we bump into...
The Space Between the Robotic Interview Script and Trusting Your Gut
The benefits of behavioral-based interviewing – for candidates and the hiring organization – are significant. And…I’ve seen that approach take a turn where the entire interview is scripted in such a way that causes hiring managers to nod politely to HR and shift...
Is Your Mulling Creating Misery?
I like to mull and noodle on things. Sometimes this tips into creating misery for others. Maybe you have your own flavor of mulling. Maybe you wait for a fully baked plan before you communicate with your team. Maybe you’re sitting on something because you’re waiting...
Bringing a Scout Mindset to Culture
We can’t change what we can’t see. Sometimes I invoke that phrase to urge colleagues to say the difficult thing – to tell a peer or a boss what they might be missing. I’m all for the clear-is-kind, direct approach. AND… I’m also all for the responsibility a leader has...
Building resilient teams. It begins with you.
It’s easy to listen to a podcast about the habits that get in the way of building trust and resilience and conjure up that one, specific colleague – you know who I’m talking about – who is getting it all wrong. Did you just mentally travel down that path? Thinking...