Career Planning

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...

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,...

Is Your Career Suffering From Tunnel Vision?

Susan Shapiro

Oct 24, 20163 min read

Is Your Career Suffering From Tunnel Vision?

If you’ve worked hard to differentiate yourself by specializing in a certain area, you may run the risk of over-relying on your...

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...

Negotiation Deal-Breakers: When to Walk Away

Susan Shapiro

Jun 6, 20163 min read

Negotiation Deal-Breakers: When to Walk Away

If you regularly negotiate to land new clients and projects—or to convince your boss you deserve a promotion—you probably have some solid...

When Rage Derails a Career: Coping with Anger

Susan Shapiro

May 31, 20163 min read

When Rage Derails a Career: Coping with Anger

We all experience moments of anger; we’re human. But some people have a hair-trigger temper that takes them from “calm” to “rage” in the...

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...

Avoid a Leadership Coaching Fumble: 3 Game-Changing Rules

Susan Shapiro

Feb 1, 20163 min read

Avoid a Leadership Coaching Fumble: 3 Game-Changing Rules

Are you among the millions of people who love to watch the Super Bowl? Office chatter in the weeks leading up to the event often focuses...

Missed Opportunities: What’s Clouding Your View?

Susan Shapiro

Jan 25, 20163 min read

Missed Opportunities: What’s Clouding Your View?

Sometimes good leaders can miss great opportunities. I’m not referring to the wing-it-and-hope-for-the-best managers here; I’m talking...

Aha Moments! 21 Examples of Coaching-Inspired Clarity

Susan Shapiro

Nov 17, 20153 min read

Aha Moments! 21 Examples of Coaching-Inspired Clarity

We’ve all experienced “aha moments”—those sudden glimpses of insight or comprehension that change everything in an instant. They are the...

Communicating a Powerful Vision: Is Your Team Committed? Or Just Involved?

Susan Shapiro

Nov 3, 20153 min read

Communicating a Powerful Vision: Is Your Team Committed? Or Just Involved?

Ever heard this saying? When it comes to breakfast, chickens are involved but pigs are fully committed. So what’s the business connection...

Why Celebrating Success Today Boosts Performance Tomorrow

Susan Shapiro

Oct 27, 20153 min read

Why Celebrating Success Today Boosts Performance Tomorrow

During my years working at HP, Manuel Diaz was VP of Sales for the Computer Systems Division. During a training event, he spoke to the...

Susan Shapiro

Oct 20, 20153 min read

Too Busy To Notice Success Flying By?

This time of year is exciting for many of us in Texas. (Not just because of football.) The Monarch butterflies migrating from Canada...

Helping a Job Seeker? Skip the Advice, Start Coaching!

Susan Shapiro

Sep 29, 20152 min read

Helping a Job Seeker? Skip the Advice, Start Coaching!

Even if you don’t work in HR, it’s safe to bet that someone will eventually ask you for job advice. How to find a better position. How to...

Relationship Mapping: Because Coffee with Bob is Not a Strategy

Susan Shapiro

Aug 25, 20153 min read

Relationship Mapping: Because Coffee with Bob is Not a Strategy

You check your Enterprise System to get real-time inventory numbers and up-to-the-minute sales figures. But how do you track your...

Camp Stoves, Leadership & the Power of Preparation

Susan Shapiro

Jul 28, 20153 min read

Camp Stoves, Leadership & the Power of Preparation

It was the first day of our camping trip at Zion National Park in Utah. As a former Girl Scout, I was rather proud of my...

Susan Shapiro

Jun 9, 20152 min read

The Power of Making a Direct Request

Colleagues and clients fully expect us to collaborate with them on reaching our shared business goals, and that process involves...

Susan Shapiro

May 19, 20153 min read

Moving Your Career to Center Stage

As I work with my coaching clients, I often use the stage as a metaphor for managing career progressions. Some people step into the...

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