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Employee Engagement: Owners Versus Renters
A common coaching topic is how managers can encourage employees to take responsibility for their work. Some employees fully embrace their job, do it to the best of their ability, want to learn more and do more, help their colleagues, and are fully engaged. These are...
Advancing Your Career in a Tough Job Market
Regardless of the type of job market, your ability to manage and direct your career is an essential skill. Organizations change, so developing your skill set is the best job security you will ever have. Finding Your Best Work First, figure out the intersection of...
Responsible Risk Taking
Risk provokes different emotions among different people. For some, risk-taking suggests excitement, challenge, learning, even joy. For others, it implies danger, fear, loss and embarrassment. Effective leadership and learning inherently involve sticking your neck out...
Heart at Work
Many of us are working long hours under stressful conditions. For some, the inevitable result is job burnout. But others seem to flourish under these conditions. What makes one stressful job intolerable but another stimulating? For me, a job that gives me a measure of...
Because Competence Isn’t Enough: Tools for Building Confidence
In many conversations with my clients it becomes clear that their confidence lags behind their competence. What good is being talented if you don’t believe in yourself? People who lack confidence can hinder their own career success by deferring to others, withholding...
Partnering with the Boss
At some point in our careers, we all run into a boss that we have difficulty working with. I know my clients face this all too often. Countless articles and books have been written about “managing up” and actively promoting your work to your boss. But often the...
Why Happiness Matters
Juicy Work means finding happiness in your workplace. My goal is to match a client’s vision of happiness as an employee to a company’s commitment and approach to achieving it.
Leadership Presence: Align Your Body Language With Your Message
You communicate leadership not just by what you say, but how you say it—and not just with your words but with your body. Effective leaders make sure their body language and voice don’t undermine their words. Key tools for conveying leadership presence are posture, eye contact, vocal quality, and authentic connection.