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I write about leadership, coaching, and personal development. You will find interesting research in my posts with lots of practical application.

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Hitting the Reset Button: How to Reinvent Your Career in 5 Steps

Feeling stuck in a dead-end job? If so, you're not alone. Many people reach a point where their careers no longer spark joy (or even a flicker of interest). However, making a change - even if there’s a promise of a more engaging career on the other side - can be an overwhelming endeavor. The RESET method described in this post will provide you with a structured, strategic process to navigate a courageous journey towards a more fulfilling career.

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Four Questions to Build Your Confidence

When you find yourself lacking confidence, this state of lower confidence does not need to define you or derail you. In fact, confidence can be learned, practiced, reset, and refined.

The four questions here provide a simple but streamlined guide to helping you develop stronger confidence for a new task, an unfamiliar situation, an unexpected transition, or a challenging role.

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Mapping Your Path to Personal Growth: Navigating the Five Stages of Boyatzis' Intentional Change Theory

In the pursuit of personal and professional development, understanding what we should expect in a change process, and what can do to facilitate more sustainable change is critical. Intentional Change Theory, established by thought leader Richard Boyatzis, outlines five stages that create a pathway for you to pursue when intentionally seeking to bring about positive transformation in your life.

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How to Choose Your Word of the Year

In the hustle of daily life with constant competing commitments, being intentional in your growth requires discipline and persistence. One simple practice that can increase your intentionality throughout the ebb and flow of the New Year is to select a word of the year.

Once chosen, your word of the year can help to inspire clarity, encourage a positive mindset, and increase momentum for your growth. So, how do you find a word that will serve as your inspiration? Read on for three key strategies to keep in mind.

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How to Live By Your Core Values

When your actions and choices reflect what truly matters to you, you create a life that is authentic and meaningful. However, let’s be honest, living out your core values is simply easier said than done.

But, with some inspiration and a few extra measures of intentionality, it is possible! The key strategies I share here will make your work easier when you are striving to live in greater alignment with your most important values.

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Five Steps to Identify Your Core Values

Values are the broad goals and guiding principles that we want to shape our beliefs, decisions, and actions across contexts and circumstances. Values serve as an internal compass, influencing the way we interact with the world and the people around us. Identifying your values is an essential step in living a purposeful and fulfilling life.

In this blog post, I will explore what values are, why they matter, and how you can identify your own values.

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How to Get Unstuck

Have you ever found yourself trapped, feeling stuck and unable to move forward?

Whether it's in your personal or professional life, getting stuck can be incredibly frustrating and demotivating. In this blog post, I will explore strategies and tips to help reignite your motivation and momentum.

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Five Steps to Find the Right Coach

Finding the right coach can be a daunting task, but it’s a critical step towards greater growth if you want to achieve your goals and reach your full potential. Whether you’re looking for a life coach, business coach, fitness coach, or any other type of coach, there are a few key factors to consider when choosing the right one for you.

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Six Strategies to Cultivate a Coaching Mindset

Coaching is a powerful vehicle for discovery, growth, and change. A coaching mindset, embodied by a skilled coach or leader, is the context that encourages this journey of growth and change to take place.

A coaching mindset can enhance personal growth through self-coaching and inspire growth in others by maximizing coachable moments.

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Seven Steps to Less Stress

Unhealthy stress is a major challenge for workplaces, schools, and homes across the world. As leaders, we need proven stress relief strategies to effectively self-manage and to provide support for those around us.

Read on to learn the top research-based strategies to support healthy stress management.

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How to Support a Growth Mindset through Self-Assessment

A growth mindset inspires us to stretch and expand beyond our current capabilities. Learn how our results from self-assessments such as CliftonStrengths, MBTI, and the Enneagram, can be applied to inspire a growth mindset.

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How to Choose the Best Self-Assessment

Self-assessments play an important role in helping us understand and articulate our uniqueness, gain empathy for our colleagues, family, and friends, and speak a common vocabulary with teammates. The variety of options can be energizing, but it can also be confusing to understand the distinctions, and to know which assessment will help meet your specific needs.

If you are pursuing personal or professional development — for yourself or your team — consult this quick guide to maximize your return on investment.

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Three Steps to Strengthen Your Self-Awareness

Despite how valuable it is, we can be easily deceived into thinking our self-awareness is higher than it is. Without pausing for honest, thoughtful self-reflection, we may hold onto a fuzzy, idealistic self-assessment that is either unclear, inaccurate, or both.

How would you rate your self-awareness?

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