Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Focus on you”
The most important quality for a leader to develop is self-awareness. While leadership is about creating change and inspiring others to act, in order to do this successfully we must devote ourselves to our own personal growth and development so we can be authentic in our interactions with others. In our highly competitive culture we often feel like we must …
When I’m working with a group of people and ask them to self-select personality characteristics that are most natural to them, someone always asks, “Do you mean how I act at work or how I act in my personal life?” Is this a trick question? Not at all. Who we are is who we are – regardless of in what …
We’re already three weeks into 2016. If you made a New Year’s Resolution, how is it going? Nearly 25% of people who make a New Year’s resolution give up on it after the first week, and significantly less than half of the people who made a resolution still follow-through with their resolution after six months. Those aren’t great odds. In …
I’ll admit I’m not the most flexible person in the world. I like to plan. Whether I’m working or on vacation, I want a clear schedule for what I’m doing during the day. (And the next day, and the next week…) When I was younger, I was genuinely confused by people who didn’t need this kind of structure in their …
Wouldn’t you agree the leaders who most inspire us are the ones who are truly passionate about what they believe in? Yet so many people try to improve their leadership ability by focusing solely on the skills and competencies that relate to leadership. While these are, of course, important, they aren’t what leadership is really about. The foundation of successful …
I recently attended my first Cirque du Soleil show. Wow! It is quite an understatement to say I was impressed – not only by the performance, but also by level of trust the performers have for each other. The teamwork and precision required for the show to be successful (and for no one to get hurt) is of the highest …
My last blog post was about understanding the basics of personality type, with a focus on the differences between extraversion and introversion. (Miss it? You can read it here.) This blog post is going to focus on how you can use your knowledge of extraversion and introversion to work more effectively with others. People generally tend to interact with others …
Do you work with someone who is so unlike you that you can’t understand where they’re coming from? Or have you ever experienced frustration in a relationship because your friend or partner does things very differently from how you want to do things? Whether you realize it or not, most conflicts in the workplace and misunderstandings in relationships are the …
Last night I attended a reception to celebrate an amazing woman in our community who climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro as part of the Freedom Climb, to raise awareness and money to stop human trafficking. At the reception she told her story and shared pictures from the climb. The pictures of the mountain summit were just breathtaking, but even more awe-inspiring to …
I work with coaching clients all the time who say they want to have better work-life balance. They talk about work-life balance like it is something tangible that’s just out of their reach. They feel like they’re doing something wrong because they don’t have it. My response? There’s no such thing as work-life balance. But there is such a thing …