Workplace Wisdom
How to handle the times when work, well…to put it bluntly, just sucks.
What Are You Putting Off That Is Getting In The Way Of Your Success?
Have you noticed your “To Do” list getting longer because of daily fire drills, new projects, unanswered emails, phone calls, and texts, not to mention all the things needing your attention at home?...
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!
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...
5 Ways to Create Your New Normal Now and After the Virus Crisis
Developing a New Normal Moving Forward Coronavirus has pushed a Country-wide reset button and has created the opportunity for the creation of a "new" more satisfying normal, despite its negative...
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...
To Get Where You Want To Go, You First Need To Know Where You Are!
Loretta Staples, a Strategy Consultant, now Therapist, once stated, "If you are clear about what you want, the world responds with clarity." Whether you’re taking a vacation, building a dream home,...
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...
Feeling Chaos is Controlling You? 10 Tips to Reduce Overwhelm
We receive more information on our cell phones in a week than previous generations did in their lifetime. What do we do with all that information from the Internet, meetings, social media, email? It...
Don’t Assume; Ask These 8 Basic Questions When Given A Project
As humans, we make a lot of assumptions. However, when assigned a new project, the clearer we are on “what” we need to do, the “how” to do it is much easier to plan and execute. We need to reduce...
Are You Effectively Communicating Your Brand’s Value?
There are three steps to creating a brand that resonates with your audience: What’s My Story – what you want others to know about you. Packaging My Story – your consistent message that conveys your...
What’s Your Brand?
Nike has the “Swoosh”, which represents speed, movement, power, and motivation, and Evernote, an app that stores your written notes on a laptop, uses the figure of an elephant's head, because "an...
Obstacles Are Opportunities In Disguise
What amazing things would you do if you thought you could? I was going to write about branding this month, but I believe this is an essential first step. I recently came across a book in my...
Chris skillfully coached me to recognize my strengths and leverage them
It is likely that you are considering a course of action to improve your leadership skills. It is also likely that this is something that you have been thinking about for some time; perhaps you read some books and took some company sponsored training or workshops. You are probably doing OK, but wondering if there isn’t something that you could be doing better.
The foregoing fairly describes my own situation when I had the benefit of a series of conversations with Chris Sier. For me that dialog was about going from good to great as a leader. Since each person’s needs and expectations are different, and since you and I have never met, I will not delve into the specifics of my journey. I will however say that I found myself in a very safe and supportive environment that was at the same time challenging. In retrospect, Chris skillfully coached me to recognize my strengths and leverage them. She also helped me confront the thing that was holding me back from being really comfortable as a leader. With her help, we devised a series of strategies and actions that have enabled me far more that I would have anticipated. This has resulted in increased confidence with my leadership, my team, and clients.
You are reading this because you are considering investing in your future as a leader. If you are ready to be challenged (in a very nice way), and willing to take some personal risk I can think of no more productive activity than to engage in a series of coaching sessions with Chris. If after reading this you would like to have a conversation with me, Chris knows how to reach me. If she gives you my number, I would be delighted to have that conversation.
Account Executive, Washington, D.C.
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