Browsing all articles from April, 2011

Keep Your Emotional Baggage Out of the Workplace

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Apr
15

Anyone who’s been in the workforce for a while knows there is no panacea out there. There are all kinds of issues to deal with and stress about:

  • Competition over jobs, promotions, raises, recognition, resources.
  • Global competition for every revenue dollar and point of market share.
  • Conflicts and issues with bosses, employees, peers, and pretty much everyone else.

It’s that last one that sort of sticks out because, while conflict and confrontation can be healthy, far too many of us make it far more difficult than it has to be. And that’s what makes the other two issues – internal and external competition – so much harder and more stressful.

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Report Confirms Executive Coaching Helps Women Advance Careers

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Apr
15

McKinsey Report Confirms Executive Coaching Helps Women Advance Careers Further

A new report shows inadequate career development keeps women from reaching top corporate leadership positions. That’s no surprise to Executive Coach Lenann McGookey Gardner. While the McKinsey report suggests businesses work harder to change the mind-sets that limit women’s opportunities, Gardner suggests women in business take responsibility for their own advancement.

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Facilitation

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Apr
14

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. “

~Margaret Meade

Coaching

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Apr
14

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.”

–Benjamin Disraeli

Custom Seminars

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Apr
7

“Leadership is not magnetic personality, which can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not “making friends and influencing people”, that is flattery.  Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.”

- Peter F. Drucker