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Have you passed your “Best Before” date?

Posted August 28, 2014 in Career Management, Latest News & Insights

Years ago I had a coaching client – Alex – who didn’t like his boss, peers or direct reports. And guess what, none of them liked him either. His abrasive and confrontational style ensured he’d never be promoted or offered a lateral move. “No one will take him” his boss told me privately. And yet, […]

Is it you or is it them? How to navigate a new organizational culture

Posted June 23, 2014 in Career Management, Communication, Latest News & Insights

Every organization has its own culture and every culture (just as every leader) has strengths and corresponding weaknesses that go along with those strengths. It made me think: what if the strengths of a company culture work well in one part of the world, but not the other? Or at one stage of company growth, […]

Taming Your Hairy Audacious Goals: The power of micro goals

Posted April 10, 2014 in Career Management, Latest News & Insights

I have never been one of those people who has been particularly good at setting goals. I feel like I tend to stumble along in life. Sometimes the goals feel too overwhelming (I have to lose HOW many pounds??) or too far in the future (I don’t know what I’m going to be doing next […]

Personal Branding: Lessons to avoid from consultants

Posted February 5, 2014 in Career Management, Latest News & Insights

When people call me a consultant, I tend to break out in invisible hives. I prefer to think of myself as a practicing leader whose job happens to be spending time furthering my learning about leadership so that I can help other leaders. I suppose “consultant” is easier to say. In today’s “Brand You” world, […]

Brand Statements: what’s the point?

Posted January 24, 2014 in Career Management, Latest News & Insights

In 1998, Tom Peters wrote, what I think of as, the seminal article on personal branding for Fast Company. Read it now and it could have been written yesterday not 15 years ago. Since that time, an entire industry has evolved around people helping you “build your brand”. The question that I get asked a […]

Career Management for Easily Distracted People

Posted January 16, 2014 in Career Management, Latest News & Insights

What are you going to be when you grow up? Have you figured that out yet? Feeling pressure that you don’t have a “career plan”? Well, don’t worry. You’re not alone. Recently, we had Peter Aceto of ING Direct join our podium and I asked him if he always planned to be the CEO of […]