I’ve been thinking about leadership. It’s the lack of leadership that has occupied most of my thoughts while working with executive coaching clients. These smart, ambitious people are frustrated with the absence of brave leaders, leaders with vision, leaders who can confront a dysfunctional system, leaders with big ideas, leaders with emotional intelligence as well as high IQ, who can motivate others to higher levels. Clients long for their bosses to be influential, mission-driven, able to take the heat, and share their successes. They don’t need management — they want leadership. [Read more…]
How to Ensure People Read Your Email
Here is the challenge. How do you ensure people will read your email?
All of us receive more emails than we would like and probably can handle. We simply don’t get around to reading all of them. So, how do you make people want to open your email? [Read more…]
Passed Over for a Promotion — What to Do?
You’ve worked hard all year. Offered good ideas and solutions that have been adopted. You were promised the next step, “soon.” Then it happens — your boss informs you someone else is getting the job you wanted and thought you deserved. You’ve been passed over for the promotion. What do you do?
Here’s three steps you might consider taking. [Read more…]
Tips on Earning a Promotion
Let’s start with a simple but important idea on earning a promotion. You must earn the next level, title change, and/or increase in compensation. No one owes it to you, and you don’t go to the store to “get” it. That said, there are actions and mindsets that are more likely to move you to where you want to be and deserve. [Read more…]
Learning Executive Presence — Tips
I recently posted an article titled, Executive Presence — Everyone Wants It — How to Get It. After reading it, several of my readers asked me, “Now that I understand what executive presence is give me some ‘how to’ tips.”
Here we go. [Read more…]
Executive Presence — Everyone Wants It — How to Get It
Topics in executive coaching get hot, then cold, and sooner or later become popular again. In the past few months the subject of executive presence, a term coined quite some time ago, has surfaced again and is the number one area of interest for my clients. People frequently want it for themselves or those who report to them. The challenge is the term is used in so many ways and situations that one person’s definition ends up being quite different than another’s. When I ask a client, “what would executive presence look like if you had it,” they often say, “I can’t describe it, but I would know it if I saw it.” [Read more…]
Your LinkedIn Profile — The Career Option Generator
For quite some time I have been saying to my executive coaching clients, “If you’re not on LinkedIn, you’re not in the world of work.” This is especially true if you are looking to move to another company or organization, switch careers, vet a potential customer, or find the next great addition to your team. [Read more…]
Four Essential Workplace Soft Skills
LinkedIn surveyed 2,000 business leaders and looked at data points from its 500 million members. They asked employers, “Who and what are you looking to hire?” and asked the data, “What did employees possess to successfully land a job or earn a promotion?” In individual terms, “What is employability?” Fifty-seven percent of the time organization leaders, hiring managers, and human capital professionals said soft skills was the answer. [Read more…]
Are You Living to Your Potential?
“I should’ve, could’ve, would’ve,” the three cries people who never really became what they had the potential to become often say. It’s too bad because now, more than ever, needs and opportunities exist in a broad range of fields, locations, and levels — independently, locally, nationally, and globally. More than one CEO has [Read more…]
What Executive Women Should Share with Girls
Oh! I’m probably going to get pushback on this article (I’m ready for it). I am stating, flat out, this is not a scientific study. It’s observations I have made over the 20 years I have been coaching executive women.
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