Insights For Individuals

Plan Your Next Career Move: A step-by-step overview and roadmap for job search and promotion

Happy New Year-ish. On Monday, I wrote about the gap between New Year expectations and sometimes not feeling prepared to meet those expectations. When it’s freezing cold and the holidays have left us tired, the thought of making your next career move can feel like crossing the North Pole – a vast expanse and no clear milestones. …

Plan Your Next Career Move: A step-by-step overview and roadmap for job search and promotion Read More »

What Would Be Possible With Focus?

Since starting a business I’ve learned techniques from other entrepreneurs that, in hindsight, would have helped me enormously in my corporate career. As we mark a new year there are two bits of wisdom that I am eager to share. First, it’s the second week in January and I feel like a stretchy cartoon superhero. …

What Would Be Possible With Focus? Read More »

The Best Annual Review

Every year I see people, and work teams, do their annual review by looking at all of the goals they didn’t accomplish in the year and dragging those into the new year. It feels so heavy! What if instead, year end could feel like, “Wheeeee!” I have an annual review that rocks. It makes the …

The Best Annual Review Read More »

Is Your C-Suite’s Behavior Increasing Employee Turnover?

The word passion is often used as a holy grail for leaders. The trouble is, what passes for passion is often bad behavior. Taking over, not listening, showing preference for certain employees, ignoring feelings, considering a need for support as weakness, yelling, or too much focus on short-term results. The list is long. And the statistics on …

Is Your C-Suite’s Behavior Increasing Employee Turnover? Read More »

The Power of Good Negotiation

Last week I attended a fantastic event at Cosmetic Executive Women focused on Prestige Beauty Branding*. Something that really stood out was when the panelists were asked their views about Amazon, the retail giant they are increasingly forced to work with, whose positioning does not align with their prestige images. It got me thinking about …

The Power of Good Negotiation Read More »

What Blocks Professional Growth?

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscape, but in having new eyes.”  ~Marcel Proust Lisa was overwhelmed. From a traditional small town, she had come to New York for a career shift and found the “anything goes” culture jarring. A mom of two, she was having trouble connecting with her colleagues who …

What Blocks Professional Growth? Read More »

Where So Many of Us Go Wrong in Careers – and Event Reminders

Last week eight brave souls signed up for my 30-minute free coaching sessions. Congratulations! It was exciting on so many levels. The first lesson is a “listen up” for job searchers — I sent three sign-up reminders and only had two people register until that third reminder. It’s a huge lesson to all those, including …

Where So Many of Us Go Wrong in Careers – and Event Reminders Read More »

How to Get Excited About Work Again

In the balmy night air, I was at the estate of an art collector in the hills above Cannes, France, watching two hundred beauty and press executives dance the night away for the international launch of Dior’s latest fragrance when a voice told me, “Claire, you don’t belong here.” I was there because it was …

How to Get Excited About Work Again Read More »

Well-Being At Work … And A Special Offer

Last week I was invited to Fast Company’s Innovation Festival  for a session by architecture firm M. Moser on how  sound, light, air, comfort, movement and communication impact our work day. Change is not easing up. Companies need to push their employees. And more will always be better. Yet innovative companies are seeing that taking care of employees lets us …

Well-Being At Work … And A Special Offer Read More »

LinkedIn YouTube Facebook