Karen’s Articles
Leadership and Goal Setting From My Wise Scottish Geometry Teacher
In my January blog series on goal setting, I want to share my love for Mrs. Tillman, my ninth grade Geometry teacher. Mrs. Tillman had a heavy Scottish accent and her love of teaching, influencing, and Geometry converged every day in 4th period, right before lunch....
Is Goal Setting Part of Your Culture?
Bah humbug! Many of us seem like naysayers when we think about goals. Maybe you have resisted setting goals if you think of goal setting only as it pertains to your work or your finances. I will be writing a January series on goal setting, and I hope to encourage...
Performance Management and Decision Making
If I am fortunate enough to have you as one of my coaching clients, you're familiar with the story of the cheese selection discussion as it relates to decision making. The cheese incident took place 35 years ago during my tenure as the VP of Learning and...
Gratitude in the Workplace
I often talk about the importance of gratitude in our personal and professional lives and on the benefits of routinely recognizing the good things in our lives and saying thank you. Certainly all of us have control over whether and how often we implement purposeful...
Leadership, Culture, and Decision Making
My colleague Shelley Row writes about herself as a recovering overthinker. It’s such a great term! As a part of my coaching work, I am fortunate to work with employees at all levels of their organization. What I notice – time and time again – is that effective...
Leadership, Culture, and Creating the New
This is my hall closet. Have you ever seen such a mess?! This past weekend I wanted to make time to write a blog about our new website, coming soon. I also wanted to make time to clean out the hall closet. As I alternated between sorting the closet and making notes...
Leadership and the Evolution of Negativity
My team has had the experience of working on two creative ventures recently. One was a new website. We followed the recommendations of several colleagues and hired Phil Reinhardt. He was incredibly creative, easy to collaborate with, and an absolute professional...
Lazy Is a Lazy Word
Natalie is a coaching client of mine, and the guest author of this week's blog. Karen and I were having our regular coaching session and during it I referred to myself as lazy. Karen stopped me, and for those of you who have worked with Karen, you know that when...
Passion, Workplace Culture, and Leadership
Recently, I read with joy this article about how one surgeon's passion created so much joy. It reminded me of the sheer joy that comes from feeling passionately connected to your work and finding meaningful ways to express that passion. And that passion has the...
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