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Thanks for visiting my blog! I am a leadership professor and a professional coach. I provide coaching to leaders and individuals pursuing intentional growth. And I empower leaders to take a coach approach in their roles.
I write about leadership, coaching, and personal development. You will find interesting research in my posts with lots of practical application.
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How to Do a Personal SWOT Analysis: A Reflective Year-End Exercise for Intentional Growth
Discover how a SWOT analysis can help you reflect on the past year, identify strengths and weaknesses, and set powerful intentions for the future. Learn the tools for deeper analysis and unlock your full potential in the year ahead.
Five Gratitude Shifts to Reframe your Perspective (plus Five Simple Gratitude Practices)
Discover five simple yet powerful gratitude shifts that can reframe your thinking and help you cultivate a more positive outlook. Learn how these mindset shifts, grounded in research, can unlock new possibilities in your life and enhance your emotional well-being.
Mindset Mastery: Five Coaching Techniques to Transform Your Thinking
Discover five powerful coaching strategies that you can use to cultivate a growth mindset in yourself, clients, or colleagues. Learn practical tips to challenge your assumptions, reframe negativity, and embrace possibility.
Four Questions to Build Your Confidence
When you find yourself lacking confidence, this state of lower confidence does not need to define you or derail you. In fact, confidence can be learned, practiced, reset, and refined.
The four questions here provide a simple but streamlined guide to helping you develop stronger confidence for a new task, an unfamiliar situation, an unexpected transition, or a challenging role.
Mapping Your Path to Personal Growth: Navigating the Five Stages of Boyatzis' Intentional Change Theory
In the pursuit of personal and professional development, understanding what we should expect in a change process, and what can do to facilitate more sustainable change is critical. Intentional Change Theory, established by thought leader Richard Boyatzis, outlines five stages that create a pathway for you to pursue when intentionally seeking to bring about positive transformation in your life.
How to Choose Your Word of the Year
In the hustle of daily life with constant competing commitments, being intentional in your growth requires discipline and persistence. One simple practice that can increase your intentionality throughout the ebb and flow of the New Year is to select a word of the year.
Once chosen, your word of the year can help to inspire clarity, encourage a positive mindset, and increase momentum for your growth. So, how do you find a word that will serve as your inspiration? Read on for three key strategies to keep in mind.
12 Books to Read in 2024 for Personal & Leadership Growth
Find some new inspiration for your reading list with these titles. Whether you are planning to take the next step in your personal growth or a dedicated leader looking for new strategies, we’ve curated a list of books that will fuel your motivation and stretch you to new levels.
How to Live By Your Core Values
When your actions and choices reflect what truly matters to you, you create a life that is authentic and meaningful. However, let’s be honest, living out your core values is simply easier said than done.
But, with some inspiration and a few extra measures of intentionality, it is possible! The key strategies I share here will make your work easier when you are striving to live in greater alignment with your most important values.
Five Steps to Identify Your Core Values
Values are the broad goals and guiding principles that we want to shape our beliefs, decisions, and actions across contexts and circumstances. Values serve as an internal compass, influencing the way we interact with the world and the people around us. Identifying your values is an essential step in living a purposeful and fulfilling life.
In this blog post, I will explore what values are, why they matter, and how you can identify your own values.
Ten Questions to Clarify Your Purpose
Purposeful living takes regular, intentional reflection to recenter, so that we can refine our decisions, our mindsets, and our behaviors. Use these 10 coaching questions to help you regularly evaluate your purpose.
How to Get Unstuck
Have you ever found yourself trapped, feeling stuck and unable to move forward?
Whether it's in your personal or professional life, getting stuck can be incredibly frustrating and demotivating. In this blog post, I will explore strategies and tips to help reignite your motivation and momentum.
How to Support a Growth Mindset through Self-Assessment
A growth mindset inspires us to stretch and expand beyond our current capabilities. Learn how our results from self-assessments such as CliftonStrengths, MBTI, and the Enneagram, can be applied to inspire a growth mindset.
Three Steps to Strengthen Your Self-Awareness
Despite how valuable it is, we can be easily deceived into thinking our self-awareness is higher than it is. Without pausing for honest, thoughtful self-reflection, we may hold onto a fuzzy, idealistic self-assessment that is either unclear, inaccurate, or both.
How would you rate your self-awareness?
How to Build Your Creative Capacity
Being forced to innovate can be arduous and stressful in the moment. With the realization that former approaches to our work are no longer sustainable, panic and chaos can ensue.
As leaders, how can we establish consistent practices that support ongoing inspiration for creativity and innovation?
Rate your Readiness for Change
As you kick off a New Year, what resolutions have you resolved to pursue? What new intentions are you trying to implement? How committed are you to kicking old habits and forming new ones?
In this blog, I will explore five stages of change to give you a roadmap to support you in your change-making journey.
Seven Questions to Inspire Change
How can you inspire long-lasting change?
Thoughtful, well-timed questions offer us an invitation to rich reflection and insightful discussion. Strategic, intentional questions can create new insight and opportunity for growth.