Blog: Resources
How to write your vision statement
This post will take you through the steps of how to write your vision statement. You can find a downloadable worksheet at the end. Many of my coaching clients have commented on how valuable their statement has been over time. I recommend working through the...
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...
Activity to build on team strengths: What I’d like from you
Strengths Activity for Teams: "Staying motivated and engaged--What I'd like from you" This resource is for team leads who want to help their team members stay motivated about, and engaged in, their work. It was developed for teams that are working remotely due to...
Worksheet for perfectionists: A better option than self-criticism
Here's a worksheet for perfectionists who want to stop beating themselves down when they don't live up to their own high standards... Ok, just between you and me, how far back do you have to go to recall an event when you perceive you failed or somehow let yourself...
Worksheet for perfectionists: Stop, start, continue
If you're a perfectionist, you have undoubtedly had the experience of working on a goal but not making progress in the ways you had hoped. Your own high standards may be holding you back. Maybe you're spending too much time on a particular task or taking too many...
Activity to build on team strengths: Great partnerships at work
Strengths Activity for Teams: Great Partnerships at Work This resource is for team leads who want to help foster strong(er) partnerships among team members. It outlines an activity that can be used during a team meeting or team retreat (online or in-person). In this...
Activity to build on team strengths: Victory story
Strengths Activity for Teams: Victory Story This resource is for team leads who want to help foster strong(er) teams. It outlines an activity that can be used during an in-person or virtual team meeting or retreat. This facilitated activity invites each team member to...
7 ways to boost your happiness
Happiness is more than a "positive mood". It is a state of well-being that is tied to living a meaningful life and experiencing deep contentment. Furthermore, there is a growing body of research that suggests that happiness is linked to our physical health. As such,...
Worksheet for perfectionists: Healthy striving
Would you like to overcome perfectionism and begin moving forward? I've created a worksheet that offers a step-by-step process to help you move forward on a project even when you’re feeling stuck. It is written with perfectionists in mind. Perfectionists are people...
Doing meaningful work through volunteering
In this post, I describe how my desire to do meaningful work has shaped my career and a recent volunteer activity. I briefly recount an experience I had this summer that brought me great joy because it hit a "10" in my own doing-meaningful-work scale. Finally, I...