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Do What You Love—Really?
The Theory: Do What You Love We’ve all heard the adage to do what you love. In fact, we punctuate this aspiration with the quote traditionally attributed to Confucius, “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” While this may be an...
Performing Under Pressure
Performing Under Pressure Whether you are a coach watching your basketball player shoot a free throw at the end of the game or a manager leading your staff at the end of a grueling season, performing under pressure is challenging. Managers Are Coaches In athletics and...
Monitor Your Mental Wellbeing
Protect Your Mental Wellbeing As a professional, your mental capacity plays a crucial role in your work performance. Having mental clarity and energy allows you to utilize your knowledge, skills, and experience effectively. On the other hand, when you're mentally...
Know Your Clients’ Goals
Know Your Clients’ Goals It is important to know your clients' goals and aspirations when working on their projects. Without this understanding, your hard work may be undervalued by them and become meaningless and unsatisfying to you. Two Aspects Of Your Work Every...
A HP With A Balanced Life? Part II
In last week’s Message, I shared with you a coaching call I had with a manager who is considered by his firm leaders to be a high performer (HP). Somewhat surprisingly, he made it clear in our call that his primary dedication isn’t to his career, but to this family....
A HP With a Balanced Life?
A HP Keeper Speaking to a couple of senior leaders of a firm, they independently told me that they were really high on a particular manager who they considered to be a high performer (HP). They reported that he was smart, got things done, met deadlines and did great...
Implement What You Know
Remembering Last week, we completed our last training for the winter season and, on the flight across the country, I began re-reading Atomic Habits by James Clear. Not too far into the book, it occurred to me how much I remembered from when I read it last. At one...
Make Work Satisfying
The Complaint A frequent grievance I hear in my coaching calls is that there are too many meetings, especially during compression season. It is so tempting to limit, reduce or eliminate some important interactions until the season’s over. But life doesn’t come to a...
No-Cost But Invaluable Practices
Costly Practices Over the years, there have been a few issues that were hot for over a decade, like what to do with staff who don’t want to be partners or how to work with millennials. The latest is where to find staff. But one enduring issue throughout the decades...
Feed Your Motivation Drivers – Part II
Be Motivated Everyone talks about being motivated. We all know how important it is to have the ambition to put forth effort to get things done. But did you ever wonder where your motivational energy comes from? It doesn't just show up, unannounced, out of the blue,...
