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Keep Your Elbows In
As you know, I write these messages from what I hear in my coaching and training programs. This message is about something I’m hearing more about. It has to do with young professionals who are stepping up in significant ways to promote change in their firms. If you...
THAT ONE THING
I’m all about you attaining your highest professional stature and making significant contributions to the benefit of others. That's the essence of this weekly message and your professional service. So you can imagine how interested I was when I stumbled upon a survey...
Low Trust Is Good?
For the last 17 years, the Edelman Trust Barometer has been used to survey the globe to determine the level of trust that people have in government, NGOs, business and the media. Their latest survey results are out and it doesn’t look good. In fact, this year’s report...
Rituals For Results
Harvard Business Review recently published an article on the significant impact of pre-task rituals on performance in stressful situations. The authors likened the routines to what athletes use before their events, citing numerous examples that illustrate the positive...
End 2017 Where YOU Want
Happy new year. The turn of the calendar marks the beginning of the next chapter of your life. For the next 12 months, your activities and pursuits will take you somewhere. And at the end of 2017, you will be somewhere else. But where will you be? Will it be where you...
Guard Your Credibility
Only serious professionals value and work on their credibility—doing what they say they will do, when they say they will do it. It doesn’t just happen or everyone would have it. Since it takes focus and effort, not many have earned the confidence of others that their...
Knock It Out Of The Park
I write these weekly messages to motivate, inspire and challenge you to focus your energy and actions that will make you the professional you aspire to be. The goal is always to stimulate you to assume responsibility for your progress and your career. After all, it's...
Turn Fear To Anticipation
You know that feeling you get when you have to do something you’re not looking forward to? It’s a dull, sickening sensation that makes you want to ignore it or run away—anything but take it on because you fear or dread it. Yeah, that feeling is bad news. Now, you may...
Assess Your Leader Progress
It’s fairly difficult to assume a career as a professional and not take leadership seriously. Even if you don’t aspire to a leader role, you are or will be elevated to lead your clients, client work and younger staff. That being the case, you need to invest in your...
What Do You Tolerate?
I just returned from a counselor’s continuing education conference. Besides being able to geek out with my colleagues about behavior theory and practice, I co-presented an ethics seminar with a complaint investigator. Yes, I really did enjoy it. One of the concepts we...
