Halloween is my favorite holiday. I can dress up and be anybody I want to be. It’s like “trying on” a new identity for a brief period of time. It’s fun when people compliment my costume efforts – “how clever!” and “how original!” Too bad Halloween only comes once a year. Wouldn’t it…
Authenticity
Career Strategies for Women – Getting Ahead without Being Pushy
Today, this post is for women who want to learn how to talk about their career accomplishments without being too humble or overly aggressive. Or, it’s for men who have career-oriented women in their lives with whom they can share this post. My colleague Dana Theus of InPower Coaching recently asked this question of women…
The Carnival of HR – Fall Colors Edition
Welcome to the Carnival of HR. I’m pleased to be this week’s host. Here in the great Mitten State, we’re being treated to a spectacular display of fall colors, courtesy of several hardwood tree species. The human resources function has a lot of “local color” as well, so I’ve segmented our Carnival into four main…
Trust Touchstones on #LeadfromWithin with Lolly Daskal
Tonight, I’ve been given an amazing gift – the chance to co-host the massively popular #leadfromwithin tweet chat with Lolly Daskal. Lolly has attracted 350,000+ Twitter followers with her messages of heart-centered leadership. She’s a writer, a speaker and a coach whose ideas drew me in over three years ago when I first joined Twitter….
Is Your Leadership Full of Bull?
I had lunch with a friend today who told me about a book called Why Business People Speak Like Idiots. It’s been around awhile, but it was a new title to me. The key aim of the book is to help people speak more clearly and persuasively. That makes sense, based on the title, right?…