Experts tell us that fear holds most of us back from providing fair and helpful — but sometimes critical feedback. My coaching confirms this trend. When I ask coachees what’s feeling hard about providing feedback, panic succumbs to tears. …

Many of us praise the confident. We love their steady, emollient style, ability to ponder and pause — even enlighten a crowd with a gentle smile and careful words. And yet how do we feel confident — especially when the default becomes fear and self doubt? I don’t have all…

We’ve organized our decks, know what to say — and why we want to say it. But the concluding Q&A session can unnerve the best of us. How do we prepare (and can we prepare) for the ad-hoc questions, especially when our job/proposal/work pipeline feels at stake? We can prepare…

Exhausting workloads and surviving layoffs can bring dread, worry — even fear. But if we’re mental fitness practitioners, we know: A gift and opportunity always exists. Might this firehose of work motivate us to find a new or different career? Launch our business? Or exercise saying no vs. yes to…

My inner circle knows that my dominant Saboteur — my leader of my inner critics, after the Judge — is the Stickler, who takes order, organization, and perfectionism way too far. While I view the strength of this saboteur as quality, until recently, holding out for actions without flaws has…

Most communicators I coach cite improving their way with words as a core desired goal. Why? Because eloquence helps us stand out, shows agility with different audiences, and that we’re informed, too. But how do we expand our language in ways which connect vs. alienate us from our audience? That’s…

The data confirms professionals are on the move. Around 55% of American professionals and 1:4 UK professionals seek new jobs. In Australia and elsewhere the numbers look about the same. …

As your work soars, so does media interest — and often with minimal notice because who can preempt which efforts will soar or plummet? In this week’s post, you’ll find do’s and don’ts for speaking with the media. These suggestions draw from my own reporter vantage point writing on social…

Leaders all over seek to develop or fine tune their leadership presence, especially now as we return to the office, but in more authentic, different ways than before. Most seem to want to show vs. …