Shared Practices: Keep a COVID-19 Journal

20 April, 2020

I gain so much inspiration from my clients each and every day. With their permission, I’m passing along some of their best practices for coping (even thriving) during these challenging times. Keep a COVID-19 Journal: Many people have shared how their pandemic-era experiences are unprecedented...

Shared Practices: Your Grief Is Real

17 April, 2020

I gain so much inspiration from my clients each and every day. With their permission, I’m passing along some of their best practices for coping (even thriving) during these challenging times. Your grief is real. Feeling lost, sad or angry about the loss of your job? Still employed but...

Tuesday Training Challenge: Personal Branding

14 April, 2020

Tuesday’s training challenge: Today’s virtual classroom focused on personal branding for social workers and therapists. How do you tell your unique professional story to stand out in a crowded field?

Virtual Coaching Circles Forming Now

13 April, 2020

Need help adjusting to the new normal of work and life during the COVID-19 crisis? I’m hosting FREE drop-in group coaching sessions, formed around core topics and professions. This week, groups are forming for: people who have been laid-off; mental health professionals; and managers...

Shared Practices: Don't Over-Zoom!

10 April, 2020

I gain so much inspiration from my clients each and every day. With their permission, I’m passing along some of their best practices for coping (even thriving) during these challenging times. Don’t Over-Zoom. It’s Friday, anyone else feeling Zoom Fatigue? It turns out, many of us are working...

Facts Matter: Value of Coaching

09 April, 2020

3.5 hours: Number of coaching hours over a 5-month period that led to double-digit reductions in emotional exhaustion and burnout. The study “Effect of a Professional Coaching Intervention on the Well-being and Distress of Physicians” published in JAMA found that professional coaching led to...

Shared Practice: Make Your Bed

08 April, 2020

I gain so much inspiration from my clients each and every day. With their permission, I’m passing along some of their best practices for coping (even thriving) during these challenging times. Make my bed: The most common theme I’ve witnessed in coaching calls and conversations with friends is...

Tuesday Training Challenge: Finding Employment

07 April, 2020

Tuesday’s training challenge: Today’s virtual classroom focused on finding employment during a recession (and a pandemic and required social distancing and record-high unemployment). How can young professionals succeed during these challenging times?

Shared Practices: Adjusting expectations is not lowering them.

06 April, 2020

I gain so much inspiration from my clients each and every day. With their permission, I’m passing along some of their best practices for coping (even thriving) during these challenging times. Adjusting expectations is not lowering them. How productive can we be during a pandemic? By week two...

Shared Practices: Assume Good Intentions

04 April, 2020

I gain so much inspiration from my clients each and every day. With their permission, I’m passing along some of their best practices for coping (even thriving) during these challenging times. Assume good intentions: Want to be more compassionate? One valuable first step is to start by...