How Good Leaders Handle Stress When I think back over all the dinner parties, showers, church gatherings and various events I’ve hosted over the years, one stands out as a complete and total disaster: Turkey Day in May. Several years ago, after eight months of...
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2 Ways to Prevent Discouragement I often share success stories in my presentations and writing. They illustrate my point and make the skills and concepts easier to remember. Plus, they usually make me look pretty good! But you rarely get the whole story. The “happy...
Be Calm & Confident on the Phone Phone interviews are not an “easy” version of in-person interviews. Sometimes they create even more anxiety than a face-to-face meeting. In this article that I wrote for the Jobscan blog, I shared ways to prepare...
The Clothes Make the Man …Or Do They? I took my two daughters to Oregon Ballet Theater’s performance of The Nutcracker earlier this month. We dressed up in fancy clothes, had brunch at an upscale restaurant, then headed to the auditorium for their first ever...