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....
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Susan Shapiro
- Dec 6, 2016
- 3 min
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...
Susan Shapiro
- Nov 1, 2016
- 3 min
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,...
Susan Shapiro
- Oct 25, 2016
- 3 min
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...
Susan Shapiro
- Oct 18, 2016
- 3 min
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...
Susan Shapiro
- Oct 10, 2016
- 3 min
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...
Susan Shapiro
- Jun 7, 2016
- 3 min
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...
Susan Shapiro
- May 31, 2016
- 3 min
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...
Susan Shapiro
- Mar 29, 2016
- 3 min
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...
Susan Shapiro
- Feb 1, 2016
- 3 min
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...
Susan Shapiro
- Jan 26, 2016
- 3 min
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...
Susan Shapiro
- Nov 17, 2015
- 3 min
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...
Susan Shapiro
- Nov 3, 2015
- 3 min
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...
Susan Shapiro
- Oct 27, 2015
- 3 min
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, 2015
- 3 min
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...
Susan Shapiro
- Sep 29, 2015
- 2 min
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...
Susan Shapiro
- Aug 25, 2015
- 3 min
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...
Susan Shapiro
- Jul 28, 2015
- 3 min
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, 2015
- 2 min
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, 2015
- 3 min
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...
