Happy New Year! For me, the holiday break was a time for rest and reflection. My top three reflections are about vision, investment in myself as THE most reliable way to being able to create value for others, and mindset.…
Resources
Building Better Boards
Through my work with Boards over the past several months, many of the same themes have emerged: lack of clarity around the Board's role, friction between leadership and the Board, disconnects between vision and strategy (even among Board members), questions…
Women Rising!
Excellent session by @coachingourselves yesterday. Highly recommend their seminars.
Dealing with employee burnout
My strategy development mandates often evole to leadership and communications coaching. Utimately even the best strategies are undermined when people don't raise the bar on those skills. When a team member is distressed, they can't perform, and will certainly struggle in carrying out any work, never mind strategic work. Which brings me to this post, which I wrote as we were about four months into the pandemic.
The importance of mentorship
Research has been done to confirm the importance of mentoring to career success and happiness. As it turns out, informal mentoring is more valuable than formal mentoring, simply because informal mentors truly care about you. Research also showed that it's…
