10 Questions to Prompt Your Team Leader for Career Insights

10 Questions to Prompt Your Team Leader for Career Insights

Regardless of our career ambitions, we all have goals. We need to know how to leverage our unique talents and harness our weaknesses to achieve these goals. The most likely source of insight and guidance, particularly in the shorter-term, is our team leader. Not all leaders are attuned to the individual development of their team,…

5 Conversations that Can Hijack the Holidays

5 Conversations that Can Hijack the Holidays

This blog includes excerpts from my book Listen: How to Embrace the Difficult Conversations that Life Throws at You. The joy of the holidays is the chance to gather with family and friends to celebrate. Meals are prepared, festivities planned, and we get to reconnect with loved ones. For many of us, holidays may be…

Preparing for the Holidays...Would you like a side of politics with your turkey?

Preparing for the Holidays...Would you like a side of politics with your turkey?

As a personal brand strategist, I believe it is important to be authentic, and learning how to embrace difficult conversations of many kinds the key to having a genuine connection. Family. We love them, but we don’t always agree with them. In an increasingly polarized country, differences of opinion have become vast and bitter. Just…