Insights

A friend who recently moved to a new city told me, “I wish I’d waited to buy a place until I’d gotten the lay of the land. Now that I’ve been here, I may have made a different choice.” I think the return to the office is going to be a bit like that. So […]

Last week a participant in a class I was teaching on listening and feedback said, “Yes, we need to listen to understand, not to respond.”  I love that. One of the things I see happen consistently with leaders, all the way up to the C-Suite, is that they listen with an agenda in mind. Maybe […]

Last week a client shared an email from a dotted line supervisor that was downright abusive. Luckily this client also shared her response. And that told me everything I needed to know. Not about anything my client did wrong. But about how her response would only make the supervisor dig in deeper. You see, my client […]

Most of the time, the inner critic doesn’t look like an inner critic.   A few weeks ago a good friend texted me early in the morning. “Talk?” I called right back. A client had asked for a tweak to her work. She’d done the correction and re-sent the finished project. Then she was up […]

Hi everyone it’s Claire here coming to you on video this week, and I’ll tell you why in a minute. But what I want to share with you is that last week I was training a group of people, and I was explaining to them a concept that I talked about a lot, which is […]

Today I did the Dinner Party Exercise with a new client (details below). I explained what I always explain with this exercise, “This is who you are at your best.” And then I qualified that further, which I also always do with this exercise: Who you are at your best is not outside of yourself, […]

Are you wondering where we go from here with home and office work?  Is your company trying to figure it out?  Do you find yourself asking how to position yourself so that you are “on board” with management, but still have a work/life fit that works for you? Last week I had the thrill of […]

I’m working with a client who could be a composite of so many current and past clients. After several months of working together, she finally sees how smart, beautiful and capable she is. She sees herself the way the world has always seen her. And she’s feeling quite giddy about it In that space between how we […]

There’s a lot in the air. Hope, relief, inspiration returning, the joy of being with friends. I also haven’t perceived such collective anger since the one-year anniversary of 9/11 in New York.  I remember noticing that people were snapping at each other and shoving their way to the front getting on the subway.   Why […]

As we emerge from the Covid lockdown, we should be feeling happy, right?  We get to see friends, go to the beach, kids go to summer camp…it’s all good! Yet somehow there’s more cranky than happy.  “I should reach out beyond the five people I’ve been regularly talking to.”  “I should get those Covid pounds […]