What does an independent league baseball game have to do with leadership?

Do you feel like you are being swept up in a tornado, spinning around out of control, hoping to be dropped on the ground and yet fearful of where you will land?

Every successful company has a board of directors sets the strategic direction, and I believe that a personal board of directors is one of the most important things you can have in your career.

Sometimes the path is clear, sometimes there are no exit ramps, only a tunnel to be navigated along a straight track, but more often, decision making means having to determine which is the best path even when you don’t have all the information you want.

…Just ask my daughter, who used it as one of her three reasons for why she looks up to her mother in a 4th grade writing assignment.

If you haven’t found those people in your life who will cheer for you no matter what, I encourage you to find them.

Let's talk about meeting amnesia! I define “meeting amnesia” as the inability to recall details of a meeting in which you were in attendance.

How does your range of emotions compare with those who work around you? Personally, my highs are high and my lows are low.

As I have shared “Making Flex Work” over the last year, I’ve had the opportunity to have conversations about work effectiveness with people of all backgrounds and career stages, so when I got this text, it wasn’t entirely out of the ordinary, but it still caught me off guard.

What does it take for you to be able to perform at your best? Are you someone who needs everything to be just right, or are you someone you can play with the cards you were dealt?

Trying to figure out how to do all the “right” things to be successful in your career can be exhausting.

This is something we are taught to ask from a very young age. In order to be successful at school, understanding what the teacher wants it’s critically important. But where do we teach people the most of our professional decisions have no right answer.

Most people I talk to tell me that they dread feedback at work, especially when that feedback comes in the form of their annual review. 

These are buzz words in the corporate world, but as a leader you’re obligated to think creatively in order to get the team where are you need them to be and ultimately get the work done.

Just like this drone from the 1960s wasn’t ready to deliver groceries, take people on virtual tours, or put out wildfires, if the timing isn't right, you may need to be satisfied knowing that your good idea is laying the foundation for things yet to come.

A lot of books and articles will tell you that the way to move up in the organization is to make sure you are constantly providing value and that you are being strategic with your time.

Before I walked into one of the large social events at last month’s Society of Women Engineers conference, I decided that particular event (with thousands of people) would be one where I intentionally sat with someone I didn’t know.

You are almost certainly familiar with spring, summer, winter, and fall, but depending on your situation, you may have different seasons to prepare for too. Most things in our lives follow a pattern if you take the time to notice.

In the old system, a career was a ladder, where you literally “moved up” by going from one rung to the next based on time and a prescribed set of experiences. Today, however, a career can (and should) take twists and turns.

Each year during our beach vacation, we pick a night to have a bonfire, and every year we get more and more prepared without really seeing any real change in the outcome. Do you ever have that happen at work or at home? Here’s our story: