Peak Performance and Peak Satisfaction in Your Business Career

In our high-powered business careers, it's easy to get lost in the day-to-day.  We blink and it's 4pm.  Quarters and years, they fly by.  We may be heads down, focused on our business deliverables and not setting aside time to strategically manage our own careers.  For peak performance and peak satisfaction in our business careers, we must pause from the race of our successful businesses to decide a vision for our career ...

In this episode I vulnerably share my own journey - the bad, the ugly, and later... the good.  Whenever I share the challenges I faced personally, I am told that it gives others the permission to share their own struggles and gives hope that there is indeed another way to do work and life.  I am resharing this podcast episode as a Must-Listen, so that if you are experiencing anything similar in your career, you remember that we are...

The most valuable single hour you can invest in your career and personal development is your consult with me to set your career strategy together.  Without a plan, your dream for your work and life will just remain a wish.  Without progress, you will feel stuck or plateaued. There is no greater gift than feeling like you are working and living on purpose, fully engaged and awake to every moment, making it count.  Investing one hour...

If you are searching for your next job or trying to land your next opportunity internally and feel like things aren't going according to plan, this episode is for you.  You may be following all the right tactics and taking lots of action, but still repelling potential employers and setting yourself up for failure.  Learn what to stop doing and what to do instead for more success in your job search or next career leap.  You won...

There are two skills that every successful businessperson could benefit from consistently honing: 1) actively managing our mindset and 2) setting and implementing strategy.  This is how we create the exact results and outcomes that we seek and what allows us to curate how we experience work and life.  In today's episode I explain why I teach every single client these two skills and how to master them as a practice. 

What Y...

Executive presence is something that inevitably comes up for every business professional, even decades into their careers.  At first blush, this can appear very vague and ambiguous, but there are specific, concrete strategies to building your executive presence.  It's not an optional thing or purely based on personality. It's a skillset that allows you to be the most effective business professional possible.  In this epis...

When evaluating our work success and comparing our career path to others, we can get laser-focused on compensation because it's measurable and easily observable. There is so much more than that salary or incentive compensation when it comes to maximizing our wealth AND finding satisfaction in our career success.  If you find yourself working for the money, in danger of "selling out" for a paycheck, or wondering if yo...

Have you ever noticed how we decide to reorganize our desk or sort email in our inbox, instead of doing the uncomfortable thing that will actually move the dial? It can seem productive to complete tasks and we love that feeling of accomplishment, but beware the trap of doing this on the simple things so that you can avoid the important things. In this episode, learn how to choose high-impact work time and again. 

What You'...

The way of the world is that there is never enough, whether it's time, energy, wealth, health, or success. Feeling this lack and scarcity can place a level of pressure and stress on our day-to-day lives. It can seem like a chase for more of a limited supply. There is a lesser taken road when it comes to the chase for "enough" and it is counterintuitive and counter-cultural. In this episode, I am sharing strategies th...

As managers, we may have mastered organizational planning and task management, but we often fail to set aside the time or energy to set the strategic vision for our team and our careers.  While it may seem that remaining ultra-focused on productivity and immediate deliverables is prudent, without bigger picture planning and direction, you may be racing towards the wrong near-term goals. In this episode, we'll jumpstart your st...

As successful businesspeople, we have followed through consistently to advance our careers to this level. This week we apply this skill in all areas of life and check for sustainability. Listen to this episode to adopt the mindset for rock-solid self-discipline in your career, health, and relationships. 

What You'll Learn From This Episode:

How following through on creating our vision works the same in our careers as it doe...

If a colleague has ever left you speechless in the moment, whether talking over you in a meeting, parroting your idea, or presenting a narrative as fact that you know is anything but, then you know how shocking and frustrating that can be. This week, we take on Managing Horizontally and all the growth available to us by facing these sometimes tenuous relationships head on. This includes knowing exactly how to respond in the moment,...

In business, the one constant is change. Sometimes though, that change can feel like a blocker to our success. In today's episode, I share with you exactly how to set yourself up to thrive in an organization with rampant reorganization. 

What You'll Learn From This Episode:

How significant change can appear both in hypergrowth companies and mature businesses

The mindset that can allow reorganizations to leave us feeling...

Most of us business professionals in high-powered, high-stakes jobs could reflect at any moment in time on how we feel "busy and tired". In this episode, I will show you how to break this vicious cycle of how we view our situation and stand out in a crowd by feeling more content and purposeful in our daily life. The words we choose to think and say have tremendous power over our level of satisfaction AND our performance. ...

This week we are taking on that sensitive relationship with your manager or leader. There is a lot of drama that comes up here that can keep us from advancing our careers and even enjoying our work on a daily basis. In this episode, learn the winning mindsets and strategies to make this crucial stakeholder a neutral factor in your career and even convert them into an advocate for your success.

What You'll Learn From This E...

In our business careers, and in life, we can benefit from systematically broadening our perspective. The challenge is that when we are in the moment, close to the details, this is harder than it seems. In today's episode, I will explain why and offer up some hacks to help you shift your perspective on cue. 

What You'll Learn From This Episode:

How narrowness of perspective tends to sneak up on us all

The first step to f...

As managers of talent we may find ourselves on the fence about what direction to take with team members who aren't performing well. Emotions can run high and avoidance is tempting. In today's episode, I share how to make careful assessments and take decisive action in your talent dilemmas.

What You'll Learn From This Episode:

The mindsets that cause most talent decisions to feel like a conundrum

A simple framework ...

For successful businesspeople, failure is thought not to be an option. It's feared and avoided at all costs. This robs us of the learnings available to us if we are bold enough to pursue them. In fact, the faster we learn from our missteps, the better off our success and satisfaction will be. In this episode, I will show you why and how to fail fast to succeed. 

What You'll Learn From This Episode:

How to spot when fea...

In our high-powered business careers, it's easy to get lost in the day-to-day.  We blink and it's 4pm.  Quarters and years, they fly by.  We may be heads down, focused on our business deliverables and not setting aside time to strategically manage our own careers.  For peak performance and peak satisfaction in our business careers, we must pause from the race of our successful businesses to decide a vision for our career ...