What should I do?

This question is often asked by my coaching clients.  Sometimes they have just described how overwhelmed they are with everything on their list of goals.  Maybe they are facing a difficult choice about a job or retirement, or a relationship, or some ot...

It’s been a year since my last blog post.  There is no good story behind the delay; I just prioritized other activities over this.  It seems fitting though to have this be the last post in my resilience series, seeing as I have stuck with this. 

For this last...

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Several years ago I was eating in a cafeteria when a man started choking.  One other man and I noticed this and rushed to him.  I gave him a couple tries with the Heimlich maneuver and he spit out a piece of his sandw...

The following three statements are all true:

• Most of the things we experience in our lives are outside of our control;
   

• We have more control over many things in our life than we realize, and especially how we react to events in our lives; and
   

• Through...

The first step in the emergency preparedness cycle is mitigation.  For disasters like hurricanes and earthquakes, it makes sense to work to reduce or even eliminate risks.  This does not mean, however, that the goal is to eliminate hurricanes or earthquakes, the focus...

By training and experience, I am both a manager and a project manager.

Managing is about bringing people together on a shared set of tasks -- some sort of ongoing concern.  Project management is defined as delivering a "one-off."  Deliverables from project management ca...

The next few months of posts will all link together with a common theme.  I have been working on this for a while and have a lot to share.  I will connect some different topics -- resilience, emergency management, risk estimation, situational awareness, project managem...

Let’s acknowledge from the start that interviewing is weird.  No one wants to be there.  The interviewee wants to be working in the actual job; the interviewer wants to have someone working in the actual job.  To get to that shared goal, we need to get throug...

A common theme for people who I coach is a desire to have a meaningful and impactful career.  Clients are often less sure of what that looks like or what they might want to do.  I hear from people in their 30s, 40s, and even 50s who are not sure what they want to...

“I never thought about how much listening is part of leading.”

This was a quote from one of my coaching clients.  He was used to thinking of leaders as those in control, those who spoke the most, those who directed others on what they should do.  He thought of leaders a...