December 29, 2015
The promotion you thought yours, isn’t. Your doctor schedules you for a biopsy, given a suspicious mammogram. Two people make snarky comments about your project in a staff meeting. Because there are two of them and they’re convincing, they influence your boss and he tables your project. The guy you’d…
December 10, 2015
In my last post we looked at dealing with passive-aggressive people. Today, we're going to talk about how to deal with an angry person. In this post, I’m using "anger" to refer to toxic anger where the angry person is blaming, shaming, attacking, or dumping on you. Instead of owning…
November 18, 2015
Are you satisfied with your work? Are your efforts and accomplishments appreciated? Are you able to make a difference with the people you work with? Does your current job provide a pathway to your career goals? If you answered no to any of these questions, you may want to…
November 09, 2015
Everybody’s talking about “personal branding” these days! I had the privilege of working with In Search of Excellence author Tom Peters, who invented the idea a quarter-century ago. Here’s his quote from a 1997 Fast Company magazine article, “A Brand Called You.” Regardless of age, regardless of position, and…
November 03, 2015
Growing up in a blue collar family in a Nova Scotia fishing village, Deborah Gillis was told that education was the key to new opportunities. Neither of her parents had graduated from high school and raising 5 children was often a struggle on their limited resources. But Deborah took their…
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