New Leadership Opportunity? Here’s How to Build a Team from Scratch The Right Way
In my last couple of posts, I’ve talked about a client of mine who had the extraordinary opportunity to rebuild an organization basically from the ground up — how he could prepare himself for the leadership responsibilities and opportunities ahead and how to set his...
How to Set Your Team Up for Success as a New Leader
In my last post, I shared a story about a client who was given the opportunity to make a career shift and take over his father-in-law’s property management business. We talked a lot about how he viewed this opportunity from his point of view — how I encouraged him to...
Are You Being Called to Take a Journey or a Leap?
One of my coaching clients (we’ll call him Andrew) is a CPA with a local firm. When his father-in-law recently retired, he passed the baton to Andrew to lead his property management company. To help with the shift in careers and teams, Andrew came to me for some...
Self-Imposed Enemies, Expectations, and How to Break Free
In my last blog post, I shared how expectations are the ultimate killer (and why the secret to a better life involves playing the long game). Here’s another potentially unpopular opinion: We create atrocities of expectations — unrealistic, undefined, unclear,...
For a Better Life, Ditch Your Expectations and Play the Long Game Instead
Expectations are the ultimate killer. And they get you in all different ways, especially when you set them yourself, and you don't even know they’re the culprit. You could lose 45 pounds and still feel like you’ve failed yourself by not losing a full 50 pounds. It...
Here’s the Thing About That Broken New Year’s Resolution
If you’re one of the 34% of Americans who make a resolution or set a goal for the new year, and if you’re struggling to stick to what you set out to do on the first of the month, you’re not alone. An estimated 80% of people lose their resolve by mid-February. We...
Do You Know the Root Problem at the Core of Your Team’s Dysfunction?
When I’m working with a dysfunctional organization, more often than not, the core issue has to do with multiple breakdowns in communication that derail teams, erode trust, and poison morale. To address the problem effectively, I help teams identify and examine the...
Here’s My Advice for Surviving Stressful Holidays (Bonus: It Works Year-Round)
This time of year can really be the pits. There’s so much pressure to look and act like something out of a Norman Rockwell painting. So many of us overcompensate and experience a ton of unnecessary stress just trying to hold it together. Sure, plenty of us experience...
For Better Problem Solving and Decision Making, Try This
If you’re like most of us, you’re in the midst of a dead sprint into the holiday season, juggling professional commitments with personal obligations — and feeling like you’ve somehow been conscripted into a three-ring circus. With the holidays just around the corner,...
Is the Thing That’s Holding You Back the Fear of Success?
Fear is a universal human experience. We all experience it, in different ways and to different degrees. But we have one thing in common: Everything boils down to our default reptilian mode of survival. Our fight, flight, and freeze instincts are always ready to...
