Choosing Hard Now or Harder Later: A Leadership Reflection In one of my coaching sessions, a senior leader sighed and said, “This is hard. Change is hard. Maybe we should wait till things stabilize.” I smiled and asked, “Are you choosing between hard and easy or are choosing between hard now and har...
The HR Dictionary That Nobody Asked For (But Everyone’s Talking About!) A couple of years ago, just as we were crawling out of the COVID cocoon, the workplace started sounding like a Netflix series. Suddenly, terms like Quiet Quitting, Moonlighting, and Quiet Firing were trending harder than TikTok ...
When We Start Looking for Superheroes to Solve Our Problems…and Who the Real Superhero Is? A few days ago, my five-year-old watched a cartoon where the moment someone faced a problem, they called for help and a superhero jumped right in and fixed everything. Cute storyline… until I started noticing ...
When Success Feels Like a Crime: Understanding Survivor’s Guilt at Work One of my coaches, who’d been hustling for a promotion for over six months, finally calls me up. The big moment has arrived! But instead of a victory dance, I’m greeted with a smile so faint it could pass for a dental check-up. ...
Repair Over Perfection: How Trust Actually Gets Rebuilt Let me start with something you will probably recognize. Remember the meeting where a conversation suddenly felt different? A colleague’s tone changed without a reason. Your idea got brushed aside a little too quickly. And that joke that did no...