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The Launch of WorkSignals™ Assessment

Since fully launching my coaching and advisory practice in May 2021 — five years ago this week — I have made it a habit to develop and co-develop tailored proprietary tools, frameworks, and assessments to best serve my clients. My latest — currently in beta — is called WorkSignals™. If

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Reflecting On 2025 & Pre-flecting On 2026

A guided thinking exercise for being more intentional in 2026 As I wind down my 2025, I do so knowing my intentions for the year were directionally clear — and consistently guiding. Intentions and directional clarity did not dictate every decision or eliminate uncertainty. But they focused me. They helped amplify the

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Thought Partnership, Accountability Partnership & the 8th Habit

Adam Grant recently posted about (see it here) the 8th Habit of Highly Effective People (extending Steven Covey’s original 7 Habits) with the following observations (and an excellent graphic from Janis Ozolins): – Extended reflection without action is a form of procrastination.– Doing is a catalyst for thinking and learning.

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A Leader’s User Interface

A recurring theme in my executive coaching work recently is what I refer to as helping a leader improve their UI (user interface).  A leader’s UI is effectively how others access the leader’s individual ‘leadership operating system’, which includes their leadership capabilities, skills, qualities, etc.  (You could also think of

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Reflection: Brene’ Brown on Asking Why vs Where

One place I didn’t expect to (or, maybe I hoped not to) talk about RTO (return to office) ‘stuff’ was BetterUp‘s hashtag#uplift2024, which I attended last week in San Francisco. I have personally stopped feeding the topic of RTO (though I support my thought-sharer friends who continue to do so

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Building Block 4: ‘How I work with others’

Back to my 6 building blocks I’ve been using across my coaching and advisory clients. In this installment, it’s the ‘𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐈 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬’ block. ‘𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐈 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬’ explores mostly what it sounds like: how one works with others in and around their work. ‘Others’ can be

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Building Block 3: ‘How I feel about my work’

With Labor Day in the US quickly approaching, I thought it timely to share the 3rd of the 6 building blocks I’ve been using and refining across my coaching and advisory work: the ‘𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐈 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐦𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤’ block. The ‘𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐈 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐦𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤’ block explores exactly

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Building Block 2: ‘How enabled I am to do my work’

I am returning to the 6 building blocks I’ve been using and refining across my coaching and advisory clients (and, of course, with myself), focusing this time on the ‘𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐦𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤’ block. My previous post on these blocks (link in comments) focused on the

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Building Block 1: ‘How I work’

I very recently shared the 6 building blocks (link in comments) I’ve been using across my client work (and with myself), and I plan to click into each of the blocks over a few posts. I’ll start with ‘𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐈 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤’. This building block weighs a little more than the

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Six Building Blocks of #HarnessingNext

In my desire to help simplify somewhat the work of making things better for work, workers and workplace, I have broken that work — or at least my portion of it — into six basic building blocks that I use with my clients (and myself): 1. How I work 2.

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