Managing Your Butterflies – Part 2
2015 Resolution: “I will put myself out there more to grow my business.” Is this your resolution? As a professional, you have many opportunities to speak in front of groups of people. This could be THE year you do it! You may have put it off because. . . it’s scary! Research shows public speaking…
Read MoreSpeaking with Confidence: Managing Your Butterflies
2015 Resolution: “I will put myself out there more to grow my business.” Is this your resolution? As a professional, you have many opportunities to speak in front of groups of people. This could be THE year you do it! You may have put it off because. . . it’s scary! Research shows public speaking…
Read MoreBless Your Holiday Stress: Part Two
We are in the middle of it: the season of giving AND receiving. You know how you’ll be “receiving” some family and friend obligations you never receive except during this time of the year? Once you CHOOSE to receive, you now get to choose your attitude and behavior. Last month, I shared two tips on…
Read MoreBless Your Holiday Stress, Part One
Here it comes again –the season of giving AND receiving. You know how you’ll be “receiving” some family and friend obligations you never receive except during the two months ahead? Once you CHOOSE to receive, you now get to choose your attitude and behavior. In my book, Bless Your Stress: It Means You’re Still Alive! I define “bless”: to…
Read MoreHow Patient Are You? Gaining Perspective in Brazil
Just returned from a week in Brazil! I keynoted for over 400 Procurement Officers in Sao Paulo (spoke the beginning and ending in Portuguese, and was simultaneously translated into the headsets they wore), and then some vaycay in Rio. Some of you know two of my biggest passions are flowers and jewels. Looking at their…
Read MoreRiveted to “Roosevelts?”–the Power of Resilience
I’ve been riveted to “The Roosevelts”—the PBS series by Ken Burns—have you? Eleanor Roosevelt famously said, “You must do what you think you cannot do.” After watching that episode, I awoke in the middle of the night, sat up in bed, and said aloud, “If you say you can’t, you won’t. If you think you…
Read MoreWomen Leaders Improve Companies
Here we are – between NBA Finals and the kickoff to the NFL season. For the past 3 years, in August, I’ve blogged in this space about the NFL Hall of Fame and the NFL Preseason. I’m angry at the NFL for not stepping up against violence to women. So this August, it’s time to…
Read MoreMasterful “Shaking It Off” at Wimbledon
I tried to write about the World Cup, I really did. But, like the line from that song in “Chorus Line”: “I dug right down . . . and I tried, I tried . . . and ‘Nothing—I’m feeling nothing—‘ ” It looks like just soccer to me, (and I didn’t even like watching my…
Read MoreNBA finals: Are You an Unselfish Teammate?
It’s the triumph of the phrase, “there’s no ‘I’ in ‘team.’” As a Human Resources professional, it warms my cockles that the teams in the NBA Finals starting Thursday night are most known for unselfish play: most willing to pass or defer shots to a teammate better positioned to get it done. The Miami Heat,…
Read MoreNFL Draft: Patience as a Spectator Sport
The greatest hiring event in sports took place last week. Millions tuned in to watch hours and hours over three days of the NFL Draft. Last Thursday night’s first round drew a total viewership of 32 million viewers — a new record. That’s up 28% from the Draft TV audience in 2013. Why? Much of…
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