When noon rolls around, it is becoming more and more likely that you’ll find people tapping away at their keyboards while maybe pausing to wolf down a sandwich amidst email and paperwork. Declining job security, hefty workloads, pressure to do more with less and an office culture in which hour-long…

If you follow me on social media, you likely already know why you haven’t heard from me for over a month. We lost our mom on 2 August. Technically, Agnes was my mom-in-law, but she referred to me as the daughter she’d always wished for. I was blessed to have…

If you are feeling like the work just keeps on coming and you would like more hours in the day, you are not alone. Daily, I hear clients and colleagues who are more stretched than ever and wish they could make time. This is one thing no-one can do; we…

There is a common misconception that being happy just happens to you. In my experience, it doesn’t. To work at a fast pace, sustain an ongoing high workload and meet intense family needs and be happy, is no accident. This is what I tell people when they say that I…

Millions of people are so addicted to approval and so fearful of confrontation and rejection that their “Yes” habit has serious emotional and physical consequences. When we suffer from the “disease to please,” we try to make others happy at the detriment of our own happiness. And happiness is actually…

As a child and young adult, I suffered with severe social anxiety. Although I have found ways to manage it, it still rears its head, especially in “performance” situations. While I might look forward to going to parties or to meet a new client, I still get anxious when I…

My last article focused on mastering the skill of giving feedback by taking Key Steps to WIN FASTER™. I had promised to write about getting and receiving feedback this week but I’ve decided to go a little deeper into one of the Key Steps of giving effective feedback, which is…

I live by the Neuro-Linguistic Programming presupposition that “there is no such thing as failure, only feedback.” We can only fail when we become insensitive to feedback, ignore feedback or hold on to limiting beliefs that prevent us from learning the lessons we can learn from feedback. Having this kind…

You might have seen from my Instagram, Facebook or LinkedIn that I was privileged to spend my birthday weekend with #mytribe of professional speakers, facilitators and coaches at the Annual PSASA Convention. So so many of these special colleagues have become very dear friends and we are in numerous masterminds…