How To Truly Lead Your Life

I often need as an executive coach to enter into conversations on all of the important differences between leadership and management.  In an organization, knowing the distinctions and valuing both roles is critical.  However, no one gets a pass based on a personality assessment of being the leader of their Read more

Why You Get Distracted At Work

I used to love multi-tasking because it felt like I was getting so much done.  That is because I falsely believed that activity equals productivity.  I now totally reject that idea, unless I am working on the most administrative tasks of the day.  Anything else demands blocked time for deep Read more

Five Consequences Of A Life Out Of Balance

This may be the single most talked about topic that I encounter in all of my executive coaching.  The demands of our careers leave little margin for the other things that really matter the most in life.  It takes an incredible amount of character to be willing to define your Read more

Why You Should Always Lead With Your Values

Leveraging the best productivity practices and empowering teams are great strategies to drive results.  However, what we must always avoid is giving higher value to efficiency over effectiveness.  This means that the Why of what we are doing will always be more important than the How.  This Forbes post drives Read more

How To Work Smarter Not Harder

I always get caught with the tension of spending time learning some new technology that will help me and the reality of needing immediate results.  However, after making the commitment to becoming proficient with some personal project management software my life is significantly more productive.  I am not interested in Read more

How To Stay Calm Under Pressure At Work

We all are dealing with incredible amounts of stress at work with no end in sight.  Therefore, we must learn how to turn all of that energy into effective habits that increase our productivity not minimize it.  Many times the critical factor is simply our perspective about the stress and Read more

How To Survive In The Age Of Disruption

I recently spoke on this topic for a new client.  We are all accustomed to what I called developmental and market change.  To address this level of change we must constantly lean into process improvement and in some cases execute a significant realignment.  However, disruption requires nothing less than dramatic Read more

3 Practical Steps To Getting The Right Results

We all know the practical definition of insanity: continue to do the same things but expect different results.  For most of us that means that we have to stop doing some existing things to make room for the new and better things.  At a minimum, we must change the way Read more