How to work smarter when your brain is fatigued
If you’ve got a brain and live on Planet Earth, face the facts: you’ve got to deal with “Covid-19 brain” for the foreseeable future. Covid-19 brain is real, according to Dr. Hilke Plassmann, a neuroscientist at INSEAD. She coined the term to call attention to how the...
Want to improve yourself? Get a coach!
What’s the most honorable profession? Coaching, according to Tony Stubblebine, the founder of Lift, a technology-based habit-tracking company. In early 2015, he pivoted Lift into Coach.me to help ambitious people work with coaches to start and sustain the...
Want to be more empathetic? Try “perspective getting”
Are you still following the principles of Dale Carnegie’s best-seller How To Win Friends and Influence People, first published 84 years ago? If so, it’s time to update your playbook, especially around Principle 8. Principle 8 is to “Try honestly to see things from...
15 smart ways to facilitate better brainstorming from your team
In this expert panel from the Forbes Coaches Council, 15 of us shared tips for facilitating ways to encourage team members to voice their opinions, including being more creative. My contribution is #2: Allow For Private 'Eureka!' Moments. My tip honors the brain...
Why and how to help your “Covid-19 brain”
“Are you back at work?” -- a recent message from a LinkedIn contact. Reading those five words immediately triggered my “Covid-19 brain.“ My annoyance level soared. What an insensitive thing to write, I thought. Since I’ve had a home office for years, it was simple to...
How strong ‘bones’ can help you in business wherever you live
Career mobility has a whole new meaning these days: We can live and work almost anywhere. While that can be liberating, it may bring about different types of career marginalization. Take it from me, as I try to live my best, nerdiest life in a party city. Over the...
How to be a better ally: improve your listening
Have you been searching the terms “allyship” and “being an ally” on Google the past month? If so, you’re not alone. According to the NeuroLeadership Institute in 3 Myths About Allyship—and What Research Says Instead, Google Trend data shows that “allyship” has been...
Why you need to refresh your language now
Just two days before Memorial Day, I posted a blog about my discomfort with the growing popularity of two phrases “going back to normal” and “entering a new normal.” Even the up-and-coming “better normal” phrase seemed problematic. These phrases implied that once the...
Is this your truth to share on your chest?
"My Execution Could Be Televised" One of my neighbors wears that statement on a T-shirt. Since Ramon’s a black man, he’s sharing his truth on his chest, which pains me to accept. As a white woman, I know his truth is the exact opposite of mine. Unlike Ramon and other...
