Your 360° May Make You Do a 180°
Perspective is a big part of leadership development: expanding perspective, shifting perspective, understand another’s perspective. Regardless of our age, behavioral style or level of emotional...
View ArticleReaching The Summit
Some of the best moments in life come as unplanned surprises. Others arrive on schedule, carefully orchestrated in their every detail. The September 25 Summit Business Conference hosted by Rochester...
View ArticlePassion. Live it.
Of the many traits that separate those who are thriving from those who aren’t, passion is perhaps the most significant. Think about people whose commitment to work or clarity in purpose propels them....
View ArticleWhy Climb a Ladder when You Can Climb a Jungle Gym?
You know about the jungle gym career metaphor, right? The one that twists a career ladder into a less predictable, non-linear series of steps (and swings, crawls, etc.). Jungle gyms are indisputably...
View ArticleOpening Up To Happiness
What’s the key to happiness? Is it possible that it could be something as uncomfortable as vulnerability? Vulnerability. Thinking of it tends to wipe rather than paint a smile on most faces. But...
View ArticleWhy I Write
Thank you to Jill Bates and Robin Flannigan for simultaneously inviting me to participate in this blog hop about “why I write”. Part of my eager acceptance to join was the personal appeal of this...
View ArticleWhat I Learned From Rugby
You’d be surprised how much you can learn from a young woman guzzling beer from a muddy cleat. . . . From the start, the post-game rugby social was remarkable. Co-eds filtered into a downtown bar...
View Articlegiving
Giving to others makes them feel good. We know that. Many of us recognize that giving is fulfilling for ourselves too–whether it’s the act of helping another or the resulting recognition, we often...
View ArticleThriving in 2015
This is the time of year that some of us love and some of dread. Whether you’re scrambling to define or refine goals or are happily progressing on plans already well established, I hope you are...
View ArticleAssertive Communication Creates Win-Win
If the purpose of communication is to share ideas and negotiate relationships, we can likely all agree that many an idea and relationship have suffered as a result of our limited abilities to...
View ArticleSpring!
Ah, Spring, the beloved season of Northeasterners when we end our hibernation and seize opportunities to feel bright sun and tepid air on uncovered skin. Many of us find ourselves motivated to walk...
View ArticleAnyone Can Have a High EQ
A new acquaintance recently asked me my position on whether leaders are born or made. She referenced a colleague who she felt was predisposed to never excel at leadership. We all know someone who...
View ArticleYour Self-Talk Hack for 2017
From New Year’s Eve resolutions to annual professional development goals, our struggles may start as early as the planning phase. How do we choose the most important thing to accomplish? And then,...
View ArticleInbox Nirvana
It was the sunshine and overnight getaway that motivated me to tend to the bottom of my inbox, and a lightly scheduled workday that made it possible. For me, those last non-urgent email messages are...
View ArticleMy Two Left Leadership Feet
Entering through a side door near the parking lot, we found ourselves in the hall with a smattering of confident instructors and tentative students. I wanted to run. I wanted to turn back the clock. I...
View ArticleDriving Happiness
Like most states of well-being, happiness is underrated. While we know that reducing stress can prolong our lives, wanting happiness—perhaps the inverse of stress—can sound idealistic. “Sure”, we might...
View ArticleFour Things I Learned (or Remembered) from My Husband’s Unemployment
The iMessage popped onto my screen on a Thursday morning. “I got laid off. I’m at AT&T getting a new phone.” “Are you kidding?” I asked, desperate for an alternative truth. “No.” This was not...
View ArticleA Team to Believe In
For the past five years, my fall has been punctuated by the Rochester Women’s Network Summit leadership conference. As chair or co-chair, I have helped lead a small group of volunteers to plan and...
View ArticleThrive in 2018
Four weeks after celebrating the arrival of 2018, the novelty of another year seems to have worn away. Conversations about resolutions have dissipated, annual business strategies have rolled out and...
View ArticleThriving in 2018: 1. Set Priorities and Adjust Expectations
Much to the disappointment of the ambitious, we can’t do it all. So, the best way to set ourselves up for success is to make sure we’re doing the right things at the right time. Being mindful and...
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