Adding Value

Nov 15, 20182 min read

Get an Accountability Partner

If you have a mentor, that person can serve as an accountability partner as well. They will have more experience than you in a specific...

Susan Shapiro

May 2, 20173 min read

The Importance of Focus

A Story of Focus “Hold that plank for one minute,” my trainer said. “No problem,” I thought, because I have two hands and two feet on the...

Inclusion and The Four Dimensions of Leadership

Susan Shapiro

Apr 25, 20172 min read

Inclusion and The Four Dimensions of Leadership

Ever feel excluded from a key meeting or social gathering? Feels pretty bad doesn’t it? It may bring back memories of what it felt like...

Business Advice From the Moose With the Muffin

Susan Shapiro

Apr 13, 20173 min read

Business Advice From the Moose With the Muffin

Strange, but true. There’s an important professional lesson hiding in a popular children’s book by Laura Numeroff. If You Give a Moose a...

3 Leadership Lessons Learned From Sea Turtles

Susan Shapiro

Mar 23, 20173 min read

3 Leadership Lessons Learned From Sea Turtles

From the moment they’re hatched, sea turtles are hurled into the world to fend for themselves until they’re ready to fulfill their...

Susan Shapiro

Jan 23, 20173 min read

Master the Feedback Balancing Act

Great leaders take an active role in helping their employees grow. A major part of that process? They’ve learned to master the feedback...

It’s 2017: Move to the Front of the Line!

Susan Shapiro

Jan 9, 20173 min read

It’s 2017: Move to the Front of the Line!

Did you make any New Year’s resolutions? Even if you didn’t, there’s still something oddly liberating about a fresh calendar in January....

Susan Shapiro

Dec 5, 20163 min read

An Up-Close Look at Remote Management

You land a new role. Exciting? Yes! But then you realize you’ll be managing people all over the country—or even the world. Time for...

Is Jargon Hijacking Your Communications?

Susan Shapiro

Nov 28, 20163 min read

Is Jargon Hijacking Your Communications?

“I don’t understand.” Not the words you want to hear from your clients or your teams. And certainly not the words you want to be thinking...

Career Development: Take the Fitness-Tracker Approach!

Susan Shapiro

Oct 31, 20163 min read

Career Development: Take the Fitness-Tracker Approach!

Fitness trackers provide us with constant, real-time data about the health and efficiency of our bodies—distance walked, calories burned,...

Why We Need to Embrace Our Career-Path Curves

Susan Shapiro

Oct 17, 20163 min read

Why We Need to Embrace Our Career-Path Curves

When my coaching clients struggle to move their careers forward, the roadblock usually is not their managers. Or their organizations. Or...

Defining Your Leadership Style: What’s Your Metaphor?

Susan Shapiro

Oct 10, 20163 min read

Defining Your Leadership Style: What’s Your Metaphor?

Are you a bulldozer or a Tesla? I promise that question will make perfect sense in less than 60 seconds. Investing the time to understand...

Moving Beyond the Fear of Asking for Help

Susan Shapiro

Oct 4, 20163 min read

Moving Beyond the Fear of Asking for Help

In my last post, I talked about the Fear of Asking for Help (#FOAFH) and how that can damage our careers. Now I want to give you some...

Susan Shapiro

Sep 26, 20164 min read

It’s Real: The Fear of Asking for Help

Your manager finally trusts you to lead the big project. That joyful feeling of confirmation is soon interrupted by the queasy reality...

A Smarter Way to Identify High Potentials: The Challenge Factor

Susan Shapiro

Jun 14, 20163 min read

A Smarter Way to Identify High Potentials: The Challenge Factor

“WANTED: Future leaders to help our organization reach outrageous goals and face challenges we can’t even begin to imagine while using...

Making Peace with Conflict: What Leaders Need to Know

Susan Shapiro

May 9, 20163 min read

Making Peace with Conflict: What Leaders Need to Know

I was definitely surprised by the feedback from my last blog. While I discussed coping with a boss who avoids conflict, I was bombarded...

Building Your Brain’s Gray Matter: The Unexpected Strategy

Susan Shapiro

Apr 11, 20161 min read

Building Your Brain’s Gray Matter: The Unexpected Strategy

Professionals go to great lengths to expand their knowledge and success: taking courses, reading voraciously, networking with industry...

Are You Cultivating Real Growth for Your Career?

Susan Shapiro

Mar 28, 20163 min read

Are You Cultivating Real Growth for Your Career?

As a kid, I always loved Spring—especially when my Dad would help us create a garden. He’d guide us to plant seeds in rows and carefully...

The Shark Tank Principle: The Big Take-Away for Leaders

Susan Shapiro

Mar 21, 20163 min read

The Shark Tank Principle: The Big Take-Away for Leaders

If you’ve seen the popular TV show Shark Tank, you know the moment I’m talking about. The wildly enthusiastic entrepreneur starts...

Leaders Sinking? The Surprising Key to Survival

Susan Shapiro

Feb 29, 20163 min read

Leaders Sinking? The Surprising Key to Survival

Leaders today are often drowning in a sea of high expectations. If they can’t deliver, their teams (and perhaps their companies) may not...

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