I don’t usually shy away from a challenge — but when I was invited to speak on a topic I didn’t feel fully expert in, my first instinct was to pass. That old reflex surprised me. Here’s how I caught it, rewired it, and said yes anyway — and how you can catch your own subtle reflexes before they shut doors that should be open.

Productive work requires us to be firing on all cylinders. How can we care for ourselves to protect our mental well-being, perform, and be creative both on a daily and long-term basis? This blog walks through many techniques to suggest skills and practices we need to incorporate into our lives to avoid burn out, deal with stress, and work toward our dreams.

How do you help your team align your new corporate strategy with their day-to-day actions. Failing to communicate strategy effectively and to help employees understand how the new strategy impacts their priorities and decisions will lead to failure and frustration. In this short blog post, I discuss such a situation I saw first-hand as a software engineer: how such a failed strategic rollout doomed Novell in the mid-nineties.

Men’s support groups are not producing fulfilled, growth-oriented men. We can and must do better.

This has been a hard week for many of us. Resilience is a trait that can be practiced and developed, and one that leaders must possess to lead organizations and projects through troubled times. With this piece, I wanted to synthesize many of the thoughts and information I had been processing recently. I hope it helps.

The Energy Level Index is an assessment tool that can help you understand how you show up on a normal day and under stress. Through coaching, your Energy Levels can be changed to help you better reach your goals. Image Copyright iPEC.

Understanding the concept of mattering is key to employee well-being, performance, and commitment. Corporate leaders and employees need to understand mattering and ensure that everyone in feels as if they matter. Mattering goes beyond a sense of belonging: people must feel that they both are valued and that they add value.

Why do people decide to hire a career coach? It all comes down to one reason: a belief that a coach, like a great education, is an investment in your future.

Meditation, Sleeping, Walking, and Compassion each work in tandem to boost your productivity and creativity while reducing stress.