5 Tips on Reducing Stress and Anxiety
A year plus into this pandemic, I still most days wake up and think about the movie “Groundhog Day.” Here we go again, wash, rinse, repeat. Ok, that has definitely increased one’s stress and anxiety. I continue to remind myself; I have never lived through such a time like this in my life. So, it’s…
Read MoreReminder to Do These Things When Working Remotely
I wrote this blog a year ago when this pandemic started. Now that it has been a year and remote working, in some form, will be with us moving forward, I thought it a good time to remind all us who work remotely to confirm we are still doing these things or reminder to get…
Read More5 Essential Strategies to Lead Others
When teams have an effective leader, they are more productive, with higher job satisfaction, and lower turnover. There are many ways to be an effective leader. Different situations require different skills. Use these 5 essential strategies to lead others: Avoid micromanaging. Micromanaging is the least effective way to lead others and is a waste of…
Read MoreTips to Shake Up Your Next Zoom Meeting
We are coming up on the 1-year anniversary of the pandemic which launched our way of working today, the ubiquitous video/zoom meetings. If you’re like me, I’m bored with the zoom meetings I attend. Use these tips to shake up your next zoom meeting. Have a background contest. Use the virtual background video option in…
Read MoreTop 5 Strategies to Empower Your Team
Top-down style of leadership is not an effective way of leading people. The mistake many leaders make, whether consciously or not, is to believe that they need to “command” or “shape” their team members. Which can lead to resistance, and, more importantly, unhappy team members. Fortunately, there’s a powerful way of thinking that can help…
Read MoreCorporate America Is at a Crossroads
Which side of history is your company going to be on? Flexibility or rigid structure? As leaders, we have ample evidence that remote working is achievable on a large scale over the last year. With COVID-19 forcing us all to shelter in place, that left no alternative but to work from home. That, for the…
Read MoreSteps to Help Push Through Your Fear to Get What You Want
Does attaining your goals seem harder than it should be? If you feel challenged to achieve your desires, you may be listening to those voices in your head that are telling you that you can’t get what you want. It is important to remember, you are not unique in having those voices in your head…
Read MoreMake Your New Year’s Resolution a Reality
2020. A year that none of us could have imagined. I can’t even begin to figure out how to process 2020. Much less my feelings. I think it will be sometime before I can lower my defense walls to allow that to happen. The sheer loss alone is unimaginable. We all have suffered such emotional…
Read MoreTips to Lowering Your Stress During the Holidays
The coronavirus has altered how we normally would celebrate the holidays, to say the least. It hasn’t though taken away all the preparations for the holiday season. Because of these added things to juggle along with our everyday lives, the holidays usually bring extra stress, and with the COVID-19 level of stress we are all…
Read MoreHow Coronavirus Is Humanizing Corporate America
Since coronavirus hit and started our adapting to working from home, it has had a very unusual side effect. It has humanized corporate America. When we were all going into the office, we would leave our personal life at home, for the most part, and put on our professional life and go to work. Put…
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