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How To Face Career Challenges (Or a Bear)
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 [...]
How to Leverage the Power of Sponsors
Much has been written about the benefits of having a sponsor – those who have one advance at a faster rate than those who don’t. And they experience more career satisfaction. If my coaching client [...]
How To Practice Leadership Rest (or is it an oxymoron?)
If there’s one thing that’s common across the leaders I coach, it’s this: they’re tired. So, it’s not surprising that at some point, the topic comes up during our coaching meetings -- usually as a [...]
How to Cultivate Leadership Wisdom (hint: it’s not the same as knowledge)
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. READ [...]
How to Hold Grief At Work When It Happens (because it will)
Grief of any sort can be hard enough — much less when it’s team-wide or company-wide -- The kind of grief that can come from layoffs or other organizational changes. How do we process it [...]
How to give feedback or feedforward (without it getting messy): Part 2
Everyone knows that the ability to give feedback is critical to being an effective leader and manager. And yet, many struggle with it no matter how many trainings they’ve been to or articles they’ve read. [...]
Companies can’t do layoffs right because they’re trying to act like ‘cool parents’
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. [...]
How to give feedback (without it getting messy): Part 1
Everyone knows that the ability to give feedback is critical to being an effective leader and manager. And yet, many struggle with it no matter how many trainings they’ve been to or articles they’ve read. [...]
How To Say The Right Thing (when you feel you can’t ever say the right thing anymore)
“I feel like I can’t ever say the right thing anymore.” Sound familiar? As organizations increasingly focus on diversity, equity and inclusion, this is a topic that more of our executive coaching clients are bringing [...]