Defensiveness comes in many forms. Here are some tips to help stop the defensive spiral.
Defensiveness comes in many forms. Here are some tips to help stop the defensive spiral.
Last week I learned a very important lesson: when someone asks you what you felt you did well, do not, under any circumstances, launch into a laundry list of self-criticism.
Consultants around the globe have made mountains of money teaching people how to appropriately deliver negative feedback message. Ooops. I mean constructive feedback messages.
At the Executive Roundtable, we are flag waving champions around the importance of building and maintaining your personal and professional network. In work, your network will be…
I've been doing a lot of thinking recently about the quest many of us have to "find our passion" or the "work we love". There's a video that's been making the internet rounds…
As a woman, I am in an extreme minority when it comes to Canadian rock band Rush's fan base. (And although I'm not as fervent a fan as my husband, yes, I have seen them in concert…
Through my 20's, I was the poster girl for the GenX job jumper. It wasn.t until my early 30's when, tired of jumping, I completed a career management coaching program and did an…
Lately I've been thinking that the toughest job for most leaders is maintaining your positivity and confidence in a relentless environment of uncertainty. 2008 was 4 years ago and…
Recently, I read a leadership tip of the day that said "Leadership is about being positive at least 81% of the time." Really? That means I get a full day of being negative every…
I spend a lot of time hearing our members talk about "changing the game". They're referring, of course, to how to pull their business out of a backwards slide.
Lately I've been thinking about confidence. It's something that I always assumed you either had, or didn't have. I'd never spent much time thinking about what I had done to build…
Tony Hsieh is the inspiring 30-something CEO of Zappos.com, an online retailer that was recently acquired by Amazon.com for just over 1.2 billion (yes billion) dollars