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July 8, 2025
Get Respect AND Build Relationships, Here’s How
“I would rather be respected than liked.” Ugh, I can’t count how many times people, and surprisingly more women than men, have said this to me. It’s drives me
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July 1, 2025
How to Transform from a Micro-Manager to a Micro-Leader
Have you ever gotten a 360? It is an eye-opening, humbling, empowering, and vulnerable experience. Performing a 360 is a key part of my executive coaching engagements. The idea is
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June 24, 2025
Are you a people pleaser?
I admit it, I want to be liked. Big shock since I literally wrote the book on likability. Generally, I try to be accommodating and make everyone happy, at least to the
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June 17, 2025
Feeling unmotivated? Try this.
Does your company do engagement surveys? I often see organizations scramble for answers when the scores are less than stellar. I must admit, I have mixed feelings about these surveys.
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June 10, 2025
Turn underestimation into your secret weapon
Back in 2017, I wrote a blog post called “Why Being Underestimated Can Be A Good Thing.“ To this day, it is one of the top ways people randomly land on
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June 3, 2025
DON’T do it! My new take on productivity
There is an ongoing and unending to do list of tasks running through my brain all day and unfortunately, all night too. I put every single task I need
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May 27, 2025
How do you learn?
Have you ever noticed how the most lasting lessons are the ones you actually experience—not just the ones you read or hear about? The fact is, there are there
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May 20, 2025
Does your thinking need a shift?
I know this comes as a shock to most of you out there, but my husband and I have never had a fight in our 20+ years of marriage. I
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May 13, 2025
Do You Take a Coach Approach? (And Why You Should)
My job as a coach is to basically enable leaders to be better leaders. What makes each individual “better” depends on their style, their team, their feedback. But there is
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May 6, 2025
The Kindness Catalyst: Transforming Leadership for Good
What if I told you that a simple act of kindness could be the secret ingredient to Connected Leadership? Research shows that leaders who prioritize kindness not only foster a
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