The Power Of Accountability
Have you had something you really wanted to do, and once you told someone about it, you kinda dreaded that you had to follow through? Getting stuff done is not a “good enough” issue. It’s an accountability challenge.
The Power of Face-to-Face Meetings
To Travel is expensive. Lots can be done on zoom. How do you justify bringing together geographically dispersed teams?
At Silicon Valley Change, we recently did just that. Eleven of us got together in person to share, talk and create something together. We found that spending a day together fundamentally deepened our relationships and changed the way we will work together in fundamental ways.
Let Go In Order To Grow
Letting go is essential because it creates space for growth and renewal. Letting go is about countering the momentum of what is with the possibility of what could be and moving toward that possibility — even if you don’t know how it will turn out. Letting go is an act of courage. It’s a leap of faith.
Dreams Undusted
At what point do you wake up and accept that your life has become a compromise? Over the course of days and years and decades all the choices you have made or half-made in a fog assemble themselves in a generally orderly fashion and we call them our “life”.
Internal Coaching from Top Companies is Expanding
We’re living in a worker’s economy. In 2022, we entered into a labor dynamic “we haven’t seen in decades…” according to LinkedIn chief economist Karin Kimbrough. In this new world, she says, “job seekers have an easier time securing better opportunities and they have less competition.”
How Women Can Get Comfortable “Playing Politics” at Work
By now, it’s a tired refrain: Women, particularly women of color, are significantly outnumbered at the senior leadership level in organizations. Covid-19 made this fact worse: In 2021, the number of years it would take before women reached parity with men increased by a third.
Resilience & Flourishing through hardship
Give yourself permission to be human. It is OK to show our vulnerability. We cannot be strong, upbeat, happy and confident all the time. As humans, we experience joy and excitement during good times, and we feel sad or anxious when bad things happen.
Three Unconscious Ways You’re Destroying Your Own Confidence (And How To Stop)
I was recently speaking with a friend of mine who was on the verge of breakdown. Before I tell you why, I just want to give you a bit of context: This woman is amazing. Her career is on fire. She travels around the world literally helping women lead happier lives, from Paris to London to sunny Maui.
Resilience, Growth & Kintsukuroi: You are better than you think you are.
Resilience. Grit. Sisu. Post-traumatic growth. Different researchers emphasize the subtle distinctions within the larger truth that more often than not, we are better than we think we are.
How To Kick-Start Your Meetings With More Joy
Do you want to bring more joy into your company? One place to start is the way you begin your meetings. Many people come to meetings in the mood of their last call, personal interaction, email they read, or meeting they attended. Their moods and attention are basically tied up in other things.
