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.…
Category: Careers & labour
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…
Working with consultants: Lesley’s 5 tips
I've come across many different approaches to working with consultants. There's a difference between contracting, process consulting and expert consulting. Either way, in my experience, the following five elements will help you get the most value out of working a…
