The Integrated Professional Productivity Series

Late one evening a mid-career employee sent an email to his manager to request a meeting.  The topic of the discussion was: “Should I Stay, or Should I Go?  The manager responded back to the employee with a meeting notice, scheduling the discussion for 11:30 the following day.  He then sent me a note, asking…

Summer Time, a time for stepping out of our daily work routines for long weekends and vacations. A time to leisurely enjoy family, friends and adventures.  My clients who range in position from Director to CEO and all positions in between have taken advantage of the summer season to enjoy theme parks, cruises, embark on…

Have you ever wanted to put a situation on Pause? A prospective client called me for this very reason. She shared the following reason with me for wanting to engage in a professional relationship with a coach to enhance her leadership performance. She was recruited through an executive search firm to join her current organization,…

During a lunch meeting at the Mayflower Hotel, I excused myself to use the facilities.  As I arrived, a young girl about 8 years of age walked up as well.  Both facilities were occupied. As we waited, I knew without doubt that I would allow the young girl to use the first facility that came…

Recently during a session with one of my clients, he launched into a highly charged dialogue on situations at work, during his volunteer activities, with his friends and even with the drivers on his commute. The dialogue was so charged, my mind drifted to the fact that I was going to need to work out…

Look in any thesaurus, and the synonyms for overwhelm are pretty awful: overpower, subdue, oppress, quash, engulf, swallow, submerge, bury, suffocate. More and more often, we are hearing people speak up about feeling overwhelm. It is no mystery, that overwhelmed employees are less productive. To anyone who’s experienced overwhelm, and that’s plenty of us, those…