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Celebrate Work by Not Working?

It’s funny we celebrate Labor Day by taking the day off. We honor work with hot dogs and hammocks.

Labor Day is the national “do nothing” award for doing something.

Don’t focus on what you do. Reflect on what your work does.

A Guide to Lousy Coaching

Unintentional sabotage is still destructive. Lousy coaching personalities create confusion during development conversations. They use words like “coaching” but really mean instructing.

Don’t be:

Fix-It Freddy
Leaky Linda
Vague-asaurus Rex
Support-Me-Not Susan

Bad coaching isn’t a mistake. It’s a catastrophe.

Included here are 5 ways to improve your coaching.

Why Vacations Don’t Work

The modern approach to solving stress is some form of escape. The trouble is, sometimes that’s good advice.

Forget your troubles.
Take vacations.
Clear your mind.
Say no.

Research says vacations don’t work.

How leaders find strength?

5 Powers of Vulnerability

Vulnerability restores the vitality that faking drains.

Everyone wears a mask when leaders aren’t vulnerable.

Make learning more important than looking good. Replace perfectionism with progress.

Move from who to blame to what are we learning?

Shift from proving to improving. Here’s how!

12 Steps to Unstoppable Potential

If you want to teach people, give them a reason to need a lesson.

Learning is the engine of progress. Stagnation kills potential. When learning stops, growth stops. Talent without development leads to frustration, disengagement, and missed opportunity.

Build future-ready people by making development necessary.

Hybrid Work isn’t Working

The Proximity Principle: People tend to serve people they see, touch, and spend time with.

What you don’t see seems easy. You assume others have it easy. People who aren’t seen often feel undervalued.

Hybrid work makes detachment easy.

Potential expands when you connect to real people doing real work.

How to make hybrid work, work?