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What To Do When You’re Feeling Empty Despite All Of Your Successes
Are you tired of getting to the end of a challenging project only to wind up feeling insufficient, empty, and craving the next big win? Do you have a constant ache--need, really--to achieve... to get to the next level, and unable to enjoy your how far you've come. Are...
How to Help Your Team Members Overcome Crippling Self-Doubt, Fear, and Even Depression or Anxiety
Do you have someone on your team who is talented, but seems to keep sabotaging themselves? Maybe you’ve noticed that they struggle with anxiety and/or depression? You can see they have potential, and you want to help them overcome their fear, but how? fear, doubt, and...
How to Get the Best Out of Annoying People
At the end of a recent podcast interview, the host asked, “What is the number one leadership principle you live by?” Without thinking, I said, people really are doing the best they can. I call it The Best Principle. As he repeated my words, I could sense that a part...
How To Deal With Irritating People In The Midst of COVID: Rise Up
Irritation washed over me yesterday afternoon as someone at my gym insisted that I wear a facemask. “Doesn’t she know that you don’t have to wear a mask if you’re exerting yourself?” I wanted to scream out, as if I even understand the current rules. “Besides…” I...
How To Help Those Who Are Grieving
It was a Thursday evening toward the end of January 2022, Yvette and I were sitting across from one another, preparing to enjoy one of our favorite meals out. It had been weeks of trying to come to terms with the progression of her father’s cancer. We needed a change...
What To Do When Someone You Know Is Struggling
A few years ago, the pain of loss was monumental in my life, and I was barely hanging on. Each trip to the gym and grocery store were fraught with fears… “Can they see that I’m not okay?” “Do they care about me?” “What am I going to do if I have a full-on panic attack...
Here’s What’s Possible When You Trust Your Team
Twenty+ years ago, I walked into Phyllis Endicott’s office asking for help in dealing with a teacher whose process was not working for me. Phyllis was responsible for the Challenge Program, a specialized program for students who didn’t quite meet the academic...
Turning Worry Into Worth: A Simple Strategy For Increasing Your Self-Worth
Do you, or someone you know struggle with self-esteem, self-worth, or a belief in yourself? Doubts and fears are common to us all, but few know the simplicity of what's needed to step fully into our own power. In this video, I offer a powerful practice for...
#3 Practice for Increasing Psychological Safety on Your Team
Reduce the stress on your team, increase employee satisfaction, and free up your time to do other things by increasing psychological safety. This is the third part of a 3-part series, offering you practical tools for increasing psychological safety. What is...
#2 Practice for Increasing Psychological Safety on Your Team
Increase satisfaction, reduce stress, and free your time to do other things by increasing psychological safety on your team. This is the second practice in a 3-part series, offering you practical tools for increasing psychological safety. What is psychological safety?...
#1 Practice for Increasing Psychological Safety on Your Team
This is the first practice in a 3-part series, offering you practical tools for increasing satisfaction, and reducing frustration and stress on your team... all through increasing psychological safety. If you haven't seen the first video, 2 minute video, CLICK HERE...
Increase Satisfaction on Your Team by Increasing Psychological Safety
Do you want your employees to be satisfied with their professional experience, and sense that they are not? Have you noticed that they are stressed and frustrated, and often quiet in meetings? When your team is more satisfied, your stress will be lower. When your...
5 Tips for Successfully Navigating Work From Anywhere With Your Partner
After nearly four hours in the car, we arrived at our rental home, nestled in the trees just outside of Williamsburg, Virginia. The three of us—my niece, Ellei, my wife, Yvette, and I—were there to enjoy some time together and participate in the Patriot triathlon over...
Can You See Your Privileges, Cause I Couldn’t Until…
Every Tuesday morning, Jeff, a local farmer, drops off nearly thirty dozen eggs on our front porch. Carefully situated orders of anywhere between two and eight dozen eggs line the sides of the porch in plastic bags, each with a name taped to the side. Throughout the...
Get Your Employees To Listen Better; A Powerful Strategy
Are you frustrated with having to repeat yourself constantly? Do your employees seem to be not listening to you? If so, try this practical technique for ensuring that what you’re saying is heard. This technique is also helpful for getting others to stop repeating...
Develop Employees Who Think for Themselves
Do you have folks on your team who show up and do a good-enough job, but lack the enthusiasm and added accountability for bringing Their best? Have you tired to get them to see that there's more they can bring to the table, and way more they can get out of their...
How To Handle Your Stress Better, Listen To Your Tension
Rolling over onto my left side in the early morning on May 20, 2021, I felt awkwardness around my left ear. Turns out, it was numb. But why? I knew I was dealing with some tension, but who isn’t? I called an acupuncturist and my doctor in search of solutions. Bracing...
Enjoy What You’re Failing At, And You Can’t Fail: My TEDx Talk
It was 9am on August 18, 2021, when Lisa, the curator of TEDx LehighRiver, suggested that I might fill in for a speaker who had to back out last minute. The TEDx event was scheduled for September 13th, with rehearsals on the 12th. Aside from the fact that three weeks...