Workplace Wisdom

How to handle the times when work, well…to put it bluntly, just sucks.

New Normal Requires New Habits

New Normal Requires New Habits

Habits – Routines – Rituals We live in a wacky, wonky world, and healthy, positive habits can mean the difference between order and chaos, ease and burden, or success and failure. Nathaniel Emmons,...

Measuring for Career Success

Measuring for Career Success

Measuring for Career Success Lord Kelvin, a mathematical physicist, once said: "When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you...

Time To Reconnect With Our Inner Joy!

Time To Reconnect With Our Inner Joy!

Time To Reconnect With Our Inner Joy This year is almost half over, and it feels like a lifetime has passed! These last few months have been grim, frightening, and uncertain. Luckily, States are...

Tackling Goals Can Be Exciting!

Tackling Goals Can Be Exciting!

When Setting Goals, Sustain the Momentum by Creating a Picture of the End Result!  If you want results, you must keep your focus on your end game. With all the requests, agreements, commitments, and...

Sticking To The Basics

Sticking To The Basics

Keeping It Basic Jim Rohn, author of "What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence," once said, "Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently...

End of Year Debrief

End of Year Debrief

Each year I update my End of Year Debrief as a reminder to savor your accomplishments during this year and prepare for next year. This year has been a blur! Because we can get mired down in all the...

She helped me grow and succeed

Christine was my Executive Life Coach for about a year at EDS. I have worked with a number of Coaches, Counselors and Mentors during my career and none came close to having the impact Christine had on my life and career. I was working in an extremely stressful position during an extremely difficult project of migrating over 300 applications from 47 separate support vendors around the globe to an EDS support team. I had complete responsibility for the client relationship, the financials, and the technical aspects of the transition while also maintaining EDS' existing business with the client. Christine taught me a number of simple yet highly effective techniques for dealing with the stress. Her personal, sincere, and upbeat approach helped me get through a real death march. At the same time, she also helped me do some extremely important career planning for what would come after this project. She is truly outstanding at what she does and helped me grow and succeed during a period when I could easily have been crushed.

Kurt Toelken
Global Client Delivery Executive, Detroit, MI