Career
Don’t hire me to make your employees better at enduring a terrible workplace
Let’s stop patting people on the back for resilience when they’re in a system that’s designed to crush them. Let’s stop crushing them instead.
Career
If you’re quiet quitting, you are part of a long and honored tradition of choosing mediocrity
Quiet quitting has been around since the first boss held the first post-mortem after a failed mammoth hunt. Let’s talk about workforce dropouts instead.
Career
How being 100% certain of your own logic creates unnecessary workplace conflict, and what you can do about it
Unnecessary workplace conflict is often the result of people digging in to entrenched positions. Here’s how to disentrench and seek solutions.
Career
Take control of your career by not doing the things you already aren’t doing
If you feel guilty about always feeling behind schedule, take control of your career and stop doing all those things you’re already not doing.
Career
Is your favorite self-improvement guru a fraud?
Most self-improvement gurus are not frauds, but don’t assume that because their method works for you, it works for everyone. There are so many to choose from.
Career
Discovering your passion, and rediscovering your passion, is a lifelong pursuit
Discovering your passion requires self-awareness. Gen X did a terrible job raising our kids in that respect. Plus, free books for you to download!
Career
Leading with vulnerability might get you fired… or beheaded
People talk about leading with vulnerability, but what does that actually mean? When leaders don’t fully understand, people lose their jobs.
Career
I’m now an ICF certified coach!
I’ve made five major career changes over 35 years. Becoming an ICF certified coach is the most recent, and I hope final, of these.
Career
What’s in your stress management kit? You’re gonna use it, whatever it is.
Crisis brings out the best in us, but often in the worst ways. Sometimes, the reaction that feels most natural to us may in fact cause more harm than good.
Career
No experience, education, or certification necessary to be a professional life coach
Anyone can be a professional life coach. But beware: a coach should have all the right questions, not all the right answers. What experience makes a good coach?