Three Tips to Help you Prepare to Parachute Over Your Obstacles

Many of us have faced many challenges over the past several years. Perhaps you’ve lost a loved one. Maybe your business failed. Or you did poorly on a work assignment. Whatever the case, how you approach your obstacles – alone or with the help of others – can have a big impact on the final […]

Three Ways to Up-Level Your G Factor to Increase Your Influence at Work

What in the world is G Factor? And why would you want it? Good question. Do you remember that kid that everyone flocked to when you were growing up? What about the coworker that everyone liked? And the leader everyone loved working for? All of these people had G Factor – the gravitational pull that […]

Coachable – Yes, Be That!

In my work with helping people to ready themselves for a coaching or mentoring relationship, a trait that I emphasize is the mental state of being coachable. In my experience working with a wide range of grownups—and being a grownup myself—this mental state is one of those things that is easy to understand, yet difficult […]

Seven Secrets of Successful Women in Business

We all have those successful women we admire who seem to turn everything they touch into gold. I’ve had the opportunity to interact with numerous women like this over the course of my career.  Here are seven secrets of success that I have learned from them that you can benefit from too. Be a Problem […]

Three Lists You Need to Increase Productivity

With the pandemic in the rearview mirror, I was committed to spending time with my aging mom and enjoying the short-lived summers that Minnesota is known for. As a result, my I focused on the business at hand but some goals did fall by the wayside. Can you relate? For those of you who may […]

25 Ways to Motivate Employees Without Breaking the Bank

If you think employees come to work for just a paycheck, think again. A paycheck may be what gets them in the door in the short term, but that’s certainly not what motivates them to stay and perform over the long term. In fact, a study conducted by Watson Wyatt Worldwide indicated that only 15 […]

Six Tips for Managing a Vacation Hangover

It’s that time of year when we all begin to schedule vacation time. And, after a year of being isolated at home, there is pent-up demand for travel. A recent trip confirmed that flights are back to pre-pandemic levels which is great news. If you haven’t taken a vacation in a while, then careful you […]

Pandemic or No Pandemic: Self-Promotion is Key to Moving Ahead

What is it about the combination of the words “self-promotion” that makes most women cringe? And why is it that, in particular, women struggle the most in this arena? Add to this equation a year of pandemic craziness where we are working harder while feeling more isolated and no wonder many women (and men) are […]

Leading When You’re Not the Boss

Now more than ever, the leaders that I find that are most in demand today are those who can motivate and engage employees who are outside of the scope of their functional responsibilities. The same holds true for both for-profit and non-profit organizations I work with. What makes these leaders effective? Leaders who are effective […]