Evaluating Lessons Learned and My Dating Guidelines

Evaluating Lessons Learned and My Dating Guidelines

(Image courtesy of https://www.funderstanding.com/educators/classroom-assessment/) A topic that comes up often in coaching and leadership development is what people and organizations are doing to look back and assess lessons learned on successful and unsuccessful...
Do Your Homework–and Throw it Away!

Do Your Homework–and Throw it Away!

I was a good student. I did my homework on time, studied zealously for tests, and actually read everything I was assigned to read. Math was a hard subject for me, so I took summer class to try to coax my brain into grasping all those black and white formulas and...
Power without Aggression

Power without Aggression

I have a memory from my early twenties, standing at a table in the New York City restaurant I worked in with a dirty glass in my hand, chatting with a customer. I don’t remember how we got to talking or even what our conversation was about but I remember this one...
Perfectionism

Perfectionism

Perfectionism is an especially insidious issue to tackle because so many aspects of it tend to be tied to people’s success. Most of the perfectionists I work with are extremely high achieving and their perfectionist tendencies are a considerable part of that...
A Novel Idea

A Novel Idea

As an executive coach it’s important that I bring research based tools to the table. In order to encourage people to integrate new ideas and information into their existing frameworks, I introduce evidence based principals explored by current thought leaders. I look...