2020 was a year of change and transition. For everyone! Nobody has escaped the impact of COVID and the pandemic. We all know that life is about impermanence. However, the changes many of us experienced over the months have been “real and substantial” loss. Dare I say, “unprecedented”. I don’t ne...

Reintegrating back into work isn’t easy after a long-term absence or critical illness, for anyone – the returning employee, their co-workers, or the manager. Life goes on, or so they say, while the person is away. Work carries on, challenges are met, goals change, and the team sort of ‘re-fo...

Thank you to guest blogger Susan Robb, Founder of Performance Management Consulting and Speaker Agent “Be the change you want to see in the world.” (Gandhi) How often are you or someone around you negative about society, other people, or the world in general?  If only you had the power to c...

Many years ago, I used to ride horses. It was an activity that was challenging and exciting and I had to be strong and confident to direct such a powerful and majestic animal. I loved it. Until one day when the horse and I were rounding a corner to take a jump and he decided to stop in his tr...

In our discussion of strengths throughout the "Lopsided Leadership" series, we emphasized that too much dependence on a strength can backfire. Too much strategic thinking leads to not enough attention to operational details. Too much dominance and hard-driving encouragement lead to not enough...

In our previous blog "Lopsided leadership - When leaders' strengths fail", we asserted that leadership strengths when overemphasized are often overused. This is the downside of strengths-based leadership development. We need to take into account how the very strengths that leaders depend on c...

In a previous post, Development Stages and Leaders, we presented different theories of leadership development based on the fact that leaders, like all adults, progress through stages as they grow and mature. The different descriptive words used by development stage theorists for these stages...

Peak performance cannot be achieved without getting intimate with your strengths, nurturing those strengths, and using your strengths wisely and strategically aligned with your goals. Self-knowledge is essential. Do you know your strengths? Do you spend time considering how to best use your ...

Do you know what truly matters most to you? I’ve been posting about mid-career crisis in this recent series of blogs. However, this time is really an opportunity for you to reconnect to what you love about your life and your career so that you can gracefully cross some of the bridges ahead. ...

Previously, I've been writing about mid-career crises (see related blogs below) and what researchers have termed the "Happiness U-Curve." There's a dip in life and career satisfaction at middle age, then an increase as we grow older. Ah, there is research to fuel our optimism. Subsequent res...