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6/8/2020 Businesses all over the world are currently scrambling to fight setbacks brought upon by COVID-19. Perhaps your goals seem so far out of reach that you’re tempted to count 2020 a total loss and just start fresh in 2021. However, strategic planning is not a New Year’s resolution! Strategic planning can and should be […]Read More>>
Setting goals can be an arduous and argumentative exercise for any leadership team, yet setting lofty, seemingly unrealistic goals is the first step toward achieving them.Read More>>
“Authenticity requires us to slow down. Fast times require us to slow down. To be effective, we need to slow down our pace of thought and action and focus on managing our attention. To be authentic leaders we need to act from intention and choice rather than from habit or impulse.” -Henna Inam In our […]Read More>>
As a member of the Forbes Coaches Council, Sheryl Lyons served as an expert on a recent panel and offered one of the “Six Ways to Encourage Leaders to Better Embrace Diversity”.Read More>>
If you’ve ever embarked on a search for a consultant or a coach to provide guidance for your growing business or personal venture, you might’ve been left feeling a little confused. Is a coach a consultant? A consultant a coach? What is the difference between the two, anyway?Read More>>
4/5/2019 National Stress Awareness Month If you’re like most workers America, you might feel like there are never enough hours in the day to tackle the never-ending to do list. Caught in a never-ending tailspin of deadlines to meet, meetings to attend, projects to kick-start. And that doesn’t include all of the “other” tasks that […]Read More>>
4/1/19 The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks. — Mark Zuckerberg When I was a new manager, my employer gave me the opportunity to go through a training course called Crucial Conversations. It was […]Read More>>
1/16/2019 Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. — Dale Carnegie Last month we shared the above quote from Dale Carnegie, along with three tips to to help you overcome inaction: 1. Be […]Read More>>
In all my years of working with business leaders, one of the quintessential issues many leaders face at one time or another are the consequences of their inaction.Read More>>
October 9, 2018 Earlier this year, I posted a SlideShare on the right way to resign a job, based on recent real-life experience. This is another in that series, providing best practices on preparing for reference checks in your job search. Checking references has, for some reason, lost its importance with some employers over the […]Read More>>
