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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.
Setting Goals isn’t Enough: 6 Strategies to Get What You Want
Nearly every day, I talk with clients who are ready to finally tackle something important in their life. A better career. More connection with family. Better balance between life and work. Healthier relationships. Most often, they come to me because they weren’t able to move forward on these goals by themselves. I help them crack the nut on what it takes to achieve their goals.
End Overwhelm and Stress at Work: Mindfulness Practices that Take Less than 5 Minutes
How often do you face a tsunami of information at work? Nearly every day I bet. 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. As your work piles up, you become more and more anxious. You try to multitask but you are still overwhelmed. Your brain isn’t focused at all.
Before you know it, it is the end of the work day. You’ve accomplished little on your to-do list and feel drained and depleted.
Need More Time? Try these 23 Productivity Tips and Create More Time for You.
We talk about how time is our most precious commodity but we are anything but time productivity geeks. We treat time is as if we had infinite amounts, but we have no more than 24 hours every day – or 168 hours/week. These proven productivity tips will give you up to 10 extra hours a week to do anything you want. That’s crazy you say. What if I told you, it’s yours if you really want it? Read on.
How to Create Your Own Brand of Authenticity in the Workplace: 5 Questions to Get Started
What does it really mean to be authentic in the workplace? Authenticity is the new buzzword, but it is not just a fad. Whether you are reading the Harvard Business Review or Forbes, there is growing acceptance that authenticity in the workplace a good thing because it fosters creativity, innovation and a more engaged workforce. And there are strong links between authenticity and well-being in the workplace.
Being authentic means showing more of your real self to the workplace. Despite all of the buzz, people still struggle with what it means to be authentic and bring their “real selves” to work.
How to Unearth Your Strengths and Find Career and Life Fulfillment
If someone asked you, “What are your strengths?” would you really know how to answer?
Most people answer this question by listing their skills. Or pointing to buzzword phrases like, “I’m a strategic thinker” or “I’m a strong communicator” or “I’m good with people.”
None of these are strengths.