Confidence is a good thing. But waiting to be 100% “ready” has its drawbacks. Among them – the parade may just pass you by while you’re deciding if you have what it takes to join in. In this fantastic TEDx Talk by my colleague Dana Theus – you’ll hear a compelling story about two women –…
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How to Get a Grip When You Screw Up
When you screw up at work, how do you handle it? Of course, it depends on the size of the screw up, right? Sent out a wrong meeting date to a few colleagues? No biggie. Send an apology email with the new date. Those are fairly easy to keep in perspective. But what if you…
Getting Ahead and Making a Difference at Work
Book Review: Getting Ahead by Joel Garfinkle The book Getting Ahead: Three Steps to Take Your Career to the Next Level is very straightforward in its premise: hard-working, competent professionals will not move their career to the “next level” unless they do three important things that many people say they’re too busy to do. The…
Leadership Development – A Key Strategy for Change Management
What role does leadership development play in creating an organization that’s responsive to change? That’s the question that popped into my head as I read the Institute for Corporate Productivity’s (i4cp) infographic that summarizes the top ten critical issues in the field of human capital management. (See below) The i4cp’s research report Building a Change-Ready…
The More You Know The Less You Fear
I’m reading the book Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist by Michael J. Fox. When I this read quote, I was struck the notion that fear-based motivation is the “easy” way out. Building respect takes more time, but in the long run, is more effective. Food for Thought: are people being…