Executive Coaching, Leadership Training, and Personal Development
Silvia and David discuss the key factors needed to create and deliver a winning pitch. Silvia shares more about her WITA method.
They issue a challenge to help you create an authentic pitch that connects with the audience.
If you’re the kind of person who feels overwhelmed when you start a big project, the “divide and prioritize” technique will serve you well.
Silvia and Janice discuss the 7 Tips to Dividing Up Big Challenges into Smaller Parts. They ask three key questions: Which tip is easiest? Which is hardest? What can you do to overcome the hardest one?
This technique will help you overcome feelings of overwhelm to plan what you want while circumventing unforeseen obstacles.
If you’re the kind of person who feels overwhelmed when you start a big project, the “divide and prioritize” technique will serve you well. Dividing up big challenges into smaller parts and prioritizing those parts will enable you to determine the most important tasks to complete. Each step you take will be reason for celebration and continuing to pursue your main objective. [Read more…]
Next week, I meet with the Conscious Leadership Tribe to discuss Commitment #3 from the 15 Commitments of Conscious Leaders: “I commit to feeling my feelings all the way through to completion. They come, and I locate them in my body then move, breathe and vocalize them, so they release all the way.” It’s a topic that this group of leaders comes back to from time-to-time because we assert that conscious leaders are emotionally intelligent.
January is well underway, and perhaps some of the good intentions (or resolutions) you made are feeling like a distant memory. It is a good time to pause and reflect on what you want 2018 to be like.
Here are ten tips to help you work smarter and achieve your goals and dreams this year. [Read more…]
Yesterday I was on a group video call with fellow volunteers from a leadership mentoring program. During our ‘check in’ the topic of the holidays emerged. It was interesting to witness the different reactions and perspectives. Many were excited and enjoying the magic of the season. Some commented that people can seem more rattled during this time of year. Others were eager to opt out altogether.
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What images come to mind when you think of a leader? Do you imagine a visionary who has attached a large following? Or do you connect the idea of leadership to certain job titles? Perhaps you only define yourself as a leader if you have people reporting to you. I think it is quite common to see leaders as those out in front or at the top of an organization.
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Some time ago I was at an event in New York City where the speaker asked the audience whom they respected as modern-day heroes and heroines? Many fine names came forward including Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Aung San Suu Kyi and Nelson Mandela. Curiously, neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump was mentioned.
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It’s common at this time of year to take stock of where you are and set new challenges for ourselves, with the goal of leaving behind what we don’t want – or what hasn’t worked – and heading into the final months of the year with renewed vigor and strategies for achieving what we want.
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Not too long ago I was working with a client who was dealing with a “pesky” colleague. Pesky means “causing trouble” or “annoying.” And, from one perspective it appeared that the colleague was indeed being pesky.
However, there is always another way of looking at the difficult people and circumstances in our lives. More often than not, they are our best teachers. As I reflect back on my own experience, I know this. Hindsight is often like that, and not all that helpful when you are dealing with the pest (or troubling event) in the moment.
