Decisions
Your future self is a jerk. Don’t let them get away with it.
When you set goals, you create an aspirational future self. But that guy’s like a micromanaging boss who’s always judging and complaining. Don’t be that guy.
Career
Build your resilience with these three simple tips
Resilient people are able to persevere better through bad times and recover more quickly. Learn to build your resilience with these three simple techniques.
Decisions
Failure is the most likely outcome for your dream. So what’s stopping you?
Pay attention to the inspirational memes and posts that come through your social media this month. The stories that get told and retold are the ones about success. Often, unusual successes. Stories like these: Julia Child didn’t start her culinary career until she was in her 50s. Alan Rickman didn’t Read more
Courage
Racing to mediocrity: how to rationalize minus-one hiring
When a manager rationalizes hiring the lesser candidate, that’s minus-one hiring. It leads to institutionalized reliable mediocrity.
Decisions
Controlling the answers by controlling the questions
Some leaders manufacture outcomes by manipulating data and controlling the questions that get asked. That can lead to spectacular failure, and often does.
Career
3 easy actions to clarify your career path
How can you plan a career path when you don’t know where you’re going? Here are three actions you can take to get going in the right direction.
Career
Book launch! Business launch! Doing something foolish because it would be more foolish not to.
This is the book launch for a new collection of poetry and photography. It’s also the coming-out party for my new publishing imprint, Gray Bear Publications.
Communication
Sloppy language exposes sloppy thinking. Use the right words.
A lot of workplace and personal relationship issues come down to poor communication, which often comes from sloppy thinking. Learn to use the right words.
Communication
To think outside the box, they first must perceive the box
Expecting your team to think outside the box when they don’t even know there is a box will frustrate and baffle you. But there are things you can do to help.
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Introducing the Gray Bear Coach Showcase, inspired by International Coaching Week
These short interviews inspired by International Coaching Week explain what professional coaching is, how it works, and the profound benefits of coaching.