In this episode of New Here, Muriel Wilkins joins podcast host Elaine Mata to discuss how motivation ebbs and flows at work as well as where motivation at work comes from, what a lack of it means, and what your relationship with it might look like throughout your career.
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I recently went hiking for a few days in beautiful western Canada. Right before our small group headed out on our first remote trail, our experienced guide gave us a crash course on what to do in case we crossed paths with a bear. Yes, a bear! City girl that I am, I listened very closely to what she had to say …
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In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, Muriel Wilkins and host Matt Abrahams explore communication strategies that leaders and individuals can use to improve their presence and show up more authentically to work and life.
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In this episode of The Edge of Work, Â Muriel joins podcast host Al Dea to discuss thoughts on what is different about leadership today, why leaders need to embrace complexity, and how we might rethink and reframe leadership for and what we look for from our leaders so that we can create a better world of work.
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Much has been written about the benefits of having a sponsor â those who have one advance at a faster rate than those who donât. And they experience more career satisfaction. If my coaching client doesnât have a sponsor or better yet, sponsors, it becomes part of their development plan to build and secure those relationships.
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If thereâs one thing thatâs common across the leaders I coach, itâs this: theyâre tired. So, itâs not surprising that at some point, the topic comes up during our coaching meetings — usually as a result of my client having lost their cool with someone, feeling unmotivated or even worse, running their body ragged to the point of health issues. But what almost always follows my clientâs realization that they are tired is the self-resignation that they canât do anything about it.
In this Coaching Real Leaders newsletter, Muriel explores what wisdom means in the context of leadership. And share some simple steps I picked up from Jud Brewer, MD, PhD on how to cultivate it.
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In this conversation, executive coach Muriel Wilkins and podcast host Joel Monk, explore the importance of contextualizing coaching, the pitfalls of coaching within a vacuum, growing as a coach, stakeholder-leader relationships, awareness of our biases and detaching from outcomes.
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The harshness of recent layoffs suggests that any managerial empathy workers gained during the depths of the pandemic was short-lived. Muriel Wilkins offers her thoughts on how to be a compassionate leader through the changes.
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If youâre like most of my clients, you entered the new year with some goals. Thereâs so much out there about how to set goals. To be honest, for most people I know (including myself), the problem is not in setting goals. Itâs in achieving them once theyâre set. As Antoine de Saint-ExupĂ©ry aptly shared âA dream without plan is just a wish.â You see –the real juice in goals is in the execution. And thatâs where most fall short. Now, as an executive coach, this is my bread and butter. If I can help my clients figure out what they want (the goal), then I can help them get there (the follow through). So, I want to share with you some tips to help you in your follow through and achieve the goals youâve set out for yourself for 2023.
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So here we are at the end of the year and whatâs most top of mind for a lot of my coaching clients is, wait for itâŠ. performance reviews! Participating in this annual feedback ritual (which IMHO needs to be totally revamped but thatâs a post for another time) can be quite stressful for many especially if you are on the receiving end. To that end, I want to share some suggestions on how you can approach receiving feedback with a little more ease. There are four steps I offer my clients when they are on edge going into their performance reviews.
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Allow me to get a little personal here. At the risk of sounding curmudgeonly, I have serious issues with the upcoming American holiday thatâs called âThanksgivingâ (Ăine Cain and Joey Hadden do a great job explaining why in this Insider article: https://www.insider.com/history-of-thanksgiving-2017-11). Nevertheless, in a few days, Iâll take my kids to visit with my extended family as they enjoy the day of feasting and fellowshipping. And while Iâm typically a grateful person (just not on this particular day), it got me thinking — how do we give thanks when we reallydonât feel like it? Not just at celebrations where the whole point is to give thanks but in everyday moments especially at work.
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