HR Professionals

Last week my family and I moved. On the first day of school.  After a year and a half.  With my oldest starting high school. Ooph.  It’s a lot. High levels of change is also something I’m hearing about everywhere. Companies are experiencing high turnover. People are moving to new cities or regions. And people are […]

This week’s Harvard Business Review stopped me in my tracks. I love to think about the future. And “Future-Proofing” sounds like protecting yourself against something you want to avoid. What an awful thought. How then, can you make the future a place of possibility, opportunity and joyful anticipation for your team? The first thing that […]

This summer I delivered my I to the 4th Power program, over six weeks, to 50 mid-level to early senior leaders in a Fortune 500 company. I say that mouthful for one simple reason: Despite being impressive, high-performing professionals with 15-20 years of work experience, they drank up the curriculum like it was their first […]

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 […]