7 Steps That Make Difficult Employee Conversations Easier
While difficult conversations can be daunting, this 7-step process will keep you on track and set you and your employee up for success.
Managing Up
This Wednesday I’ll be speaking for the Austin Association of Women in Communications. The topic, managing up, is one that most of us likely have had, are having, or will have experience with at one point or another. Dozens of books and articles have been written about this topic. Working with You is Killing Me: …
Out with the Old
This weekend we poured through all of our holiday decorations and went Christmas crazy. While I have menorahs and dreidels, and we still celebrate Hanukkah, I have to admit, Christmas is my favorite holiday. We had boxes STUFFED with every kind of decoration imaginable, many of which should have been thrown away long ago. I was…
Son of a Ditch!
My mom’s fiancé, my soon to be step-dad, was kind and cruel enough to volunteer to help us put an in-ground sprinkler system in both our yard and my mom’s (she lives next door to me when she’s not with her hubby to be in Houston). Last year after our stay at the hospital I…
Who’s Awesome?
Are you guilty of comparing yourself and your success to others? (That means just about EVERYONE). If so, stop what you’re doing, print this picture, and paste it to your monitor, phone, mirror, refrigerator, car, and anywhere else you might need the reminder. YOU are awesome…JUST THE WAY YOU ARE! Remember, you act like the kind…