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Explore career topics, including strengths, goals, healthy productivity, perfectionism and wellness.
Using your greatest strengths as a leader: An interview with Tim Kato
"How can I use my greatest strengths as a leader?" There is boundless advice addressing this important question. Ultimately leadership is personal and reflects YOUR unique strengths and personality. A key tool I use in my professional coaching practice to help clients...
My Top 5 CliftonStrengths have changed–Should I worry?
You re-took the Top 5 CliftonStrengths assessment (often called StrengthsFinder) and your Signature Themes (i.e., the 5 themes that get reported out) have changed! This prompts you to wonder: "What's going on?!" The questions behind that question When people let me...
How to prioritize when everything feels important and urgent at work
How to prioritize tasks at work is an eternal challenge when your workload is heavy, there are multiple demands on your time, and everything needs your attention right now. You end up working all the time in an effort to catch up and fulfil your responsibilities...
Feel overwhelmed? I love to do this (try it yourself)
Do you ever feel overwhelmed the moment you wake up? One of my favourite practices for reducing overwhelm and increasing my productivity is to create my to-do list in the evening. Doing this takes only a few minutes and has so many benefits. How planning the night...
Should I retake my CliftonStrengths assessment?
Should I retake my CliftonStrengths Assessment? This is a question I often get from people who have taken the assessment (also called StrengthsFinder) in the past. My answer is usually "No!". Reasons not to retake the CliftonStrengths Assessment (also called...
7 recommended reads for more wellbeing in your career and work
We spend a lot of time at work, so thriving in our career and at work are important things aim for. It's not lofty or "too much" to ask for! Here are 7 recommended reads for more wellbeing in your career and work. Recommended reads that will boost my career...
Worksheet for leveraging your strengths
This downloadable resource includes a worksheet for leveraging your strengths, and includes ideas on developing your strengths through awareness and taking action. Why develop our strengths? Our greatest potential for growth comes from developing our strengths and not...
Activity for effective team collaboration
Effective team collaboration promotes trust, creativity, innovation, and cooperation (Bulińska-Stangrecka & Bagieńska, 2019). These are important facets to healthy team functioning. In addition, numerous studies have found that team collaboration increases...
A worksheet on values (authentic & aspirational)
If someone were to ask you what you value, could you tell them? You could probably list a few of your values quite easily, and even describe how these play out in your life. You might even be honest enough to talk about the ones you struggle to live by, despite their...
Recommend someone on LinkedIn to show thanks
It's a given to thank someone when they've done good work. I'm sure you do this all the time! It's less common, however, to go that extra step and let the individual's director, manager, colleagues or network know about the great work that has been done. Sure, it...
10 tips for planning an effective workshop
I love helping people and sharing what I know. This post is a way to do both--and will be of interest to individuals who are keen to build their facilitation skills. The "bigger" message is: (1) don't dismiss your experience as insignificant and (2) share what you...
25 years together
Raúl and I celebrated 25 years together in October. Unlike in past years when we barely acknowledged the milestone of another year, we decided to do something special this time. Not because it felt obligatory, but because we both genuinely wanted to recognize this...