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Do You Listen Well? Does Your Team Think So? Listen Up!
Time to give yourself a big hand 🖐 for getting through the first five of 2025! Let’s get ready to dive into Summer and hopefully step away from those exhausting (exhilarating?) leadership duties for a little downtime-playtime over the next few months. What’s trending for me this month are two important…
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Tips & Tools for Supporting Workplace Mental Health this Month
Spring has sprung yet another new month. May is one of my favorites and also Mental Health Awareness Month – a perfect reminder that our role as leaders is to take care of our own well-being as well as our staff and teams. Unfortunately, the world is currently not doing this very…
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To Coach and Be Coached: Resources to Learn Your Coaching Style
Last week I talked about the importance of having a vision to define the new future you want – especially in uncertain times. If you missed that newsletter, you can read it here. This week I want you to think about Coaching as a style of leading and developing your staff…
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When the Future is Ambiguous, Start with A Vision
Welcome to Spring 💐! You’ve made it through the first quarter of the new year, hopefully building your ability to lead during this time of great ambiguity and flexing those adaptability muscles. I continue to hear about the importance of these two skills, no matter where you are on your…
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Hope Is a Strategy; Pandemic Era Lessons on Leading Through Change
In my last resources newsletter, I discussed the 3 A-list skills leaders can build to help them in these times of drastic change – Authenticity, Ambiguity and Adaptation. I also mentioned that another A-word, Anxiety, has been top-mind for leaders of all levels during these past few months. Recently, EQ…
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3 A-Rated Leadership Skills Shared by Women as Essential for 2025
I’m hitting your in-box a little late in March because I came down with that nasty flu and then suffered a bad case of overload (overwhelm?). Like many of you leaders, I have been juggling managing my recovery with the consequences of taking personal time off to visit family in…
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Overworked, under-recognized? It’s time to change that.
Are you a mid-level leader (i.e. the intermediary between the C-Suite and front line workers) who may be feeling a bit burned out by these ongoing, everyday challenges? Not enough personal or staff capacity to match the workload Everything is a priority, and delegation feels like putting the load on…
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Ways to Show Your Team Some ❤️ Love
Did you blink and the month of January went by? Welcome to February! The next few weeks are the perfect time to focus on LOVE – for your team AND your loved ones, including yourself (did you think Valentines Day was just for romance?) Last week, I hosted a webinar outlining…
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You Can’t Do It All & Other Resources to Unlock Leadership Mastery in 2025
The WHY O.S. was marketed as a way to discover one’s Purpose (my raison d’être) and created by WHY Institute founder, Dr. Gary Sanchez who, after years of extensive research, identified 9 types of WHYs that motivate and define individuals.