Category: The Restart Diaries
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How to build a career and strong leadership without losing yourself I’ve spent over two decades working with people, helping them find their footing, rebuild after setbacks, and grow into roles they never thought possible. And in all that time, I found that the single most reliable predictor of whether someone thrives in leadership is…
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Think about the last time you hit a wall at 3 pm, the kind of where you’re staring at a screen, re-reading the same sentence, and your brain just refuses to cooperate. You probably blamed the meeting before lunch, the bad night’s sleep, or the fact that it’s some days are just like that. The…
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If you feel like all you do in your life latelly is to track things so you keep yoursef on track, we get you. You track your inbox that is overflowing with unred emails that keeps coming, your kids’ school schedules that keeps changing every week. You track your KPIs, your deadlines, your budget. But…
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From all the things you can do to prevent burnout, perform at your best, be efficient in life and career, and recover from burnout, SLEEP is the ONE THING to start with. And you can start today! There’s a moment many high-performing people know during their career. You wake up after seven hours in bed,…
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How to hear the quiet chaos behind scaling teams, and what to do about it. There is something almost electric about a team in growth mode. New projects, new people, new possibilities. The energy is contagious, and for a while, that energy carries everyone forward. Each member of the team is working towards the same…
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Scale The Leader | Scale-Up | Leaders | Identity & Competence | Stewardship Everywhere you turn, you read, listen to, or hear about growth, but almost nobody is talking about the people behind the growth, those who are basically doing the growing. May arrives with a particular kind of energy in the business world. Budgets…
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Walk into almost any workplace today, and you’ll find four different generations working side by side. That’s a big advantage, but it also creates a very real challenge for communication. People don’t just work differently depending on the generation they grew up in, but they also communicate differently. They say the same thing, but just…
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So many people use those expressions in communication with colleagues from different cultural backgrounds without even thinking about how damaging it is to their colleagues and how it affects communication within their team. Phrases like: Imagine you change countries (not cities in your own country), leave everything behind – your family and friends, social network,…
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You think of yourself as someone who keeps their word. And when it comes to the big things, (promotions, contracts, the decisions that end up in writing), you probably do. But your team is not measuring your integrity by the big moments. They are measuring it by Tuesday afternoon. “I’ll send you that by Friday.”…
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How culture, generational differences, and fear influence the way you communicate in everyday life and in a team. and what is trauma-informed communication. You have this guy on your team who is quiet in meetings, and you have probably decided he is disengaged. Maybe a little arrogant, or just not a team player? You just don’t…