Improving your EI is about managing your inner response to things and choosing a new way to handle your inner reaction to people and situations. For e...
Freedom of Speech at Work?
Despite what you may have read in the news lately in stories surrounding the election or NFL player protests, the First Amendment does not provide a p...
Assessing the Emotional Intelligence Factor – Part 1
The biggest reason leaders fail is not intelligence or IQ, but lack of emotional intelligence or EI. Fortunately, EI is developable; IQ isn’t. Resea...
What is Resiliency?
Guest blog by Laura S. Scott, PCC, CPC, ELI-MP, CPDFA When members bring challenging issues to our confidential Key Women’s Leadership Forums, they ...
Get a 360 View and Grow
In our peer forums, one of the participants shared that some of the employees reporting to her find her “intimidating.” “How can I get the feedb...
Peer Power
I recall a time when a CEO in one of the peer forums I facilitated was presenting a business issue and projected flat growth over the upcoming year. H...
Do What You Love and You’ll Never Work a Day in Your Life
Holly’s great grandmother, Bess, was a baker. With the untimely death of her husband, Bess needed to work to support her young daughter. She, her br...
Set Your Mind on Growth
One of the keys to building confidence is making mistakes and even failing. You learn from taking risks especially if some don’t work out. Challengi...
Purge Perfectionism
I was invited to speak at Raymond James’ Women in Capital Markets Conference in January of this year. I was excited to hear that Claire Shipman was ...
Act First, Don’t Overthink
Women are less confident than men and have a tendency to second guess themselves more often. In their book, The Confidence Code, Claire Shipman and Ka...
It’s not what you say, it’s how you project it
Women are often penalized for asserting themselves verbally. Interestingly, research indicates that women are not penalized for non-verbal assertive b...
Assertiveness is critical to leadership success
In my last blog on “When I Say No, I Feel Guilty,” I outlined some approaches to assertiveness and boundary setting. One of the problems that many...
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