Karen’s Articles
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...
The Business Trip
In order to create a respectful and inclusive culture, organizations need to provide regular diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training. But once you have had that basic training, how can you mix it up and make it relevant year after year? At Concordia...
Workplace Culture, Leadership, and Toxic Positivity
I recently came across an incredible article in The Atlantic that got me thinking about toxic positivity. If you haven't read it yet, I highly recommend checking it out here. If you've been following my blogs, you know that I've written a lot about appreciation,...
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