I help leaders build more empowered teams by embracing your curiosity and developing a coaching approach to leadership. I bring a dozen years of experience as an academic librarian to my coaching practice. So the examples come from library work, but you don’t have to be a librarian to learn something valuable!
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Yes, yes I am starting today with an early Cardi B reference 😂 The hardest part of developing a coaching approach to leadership is that you’re going to feel knocked down over and over, but you just have to keep resetting your intentions to try again tomorrow. One of the major challenges is that you…
One of the big stories in the onslaught of bad news coming out of the US lately has been the systematic dismantling of DEIA. So we’re no longer allowed to openly talk about equity and inclusion. OK. I’ve been in this long enough to remember when we discussed many of the targeted policy measures under…
My regular every-two-weeks schedule says that I should be sending out a newsletter today, but this Thursday is Thanksgiving in the US. When I worked as a librarian in the US, I was either out-of-office or just mentally checked out for this whole week! So I’m “officially” skipping this week. I’ll be back next week…
Burnout is on my mind this week. I tuned into the latest episode of the Surviving the Stacks podcast, and a lot of the conversation connected with the reasons I’m so invested in helping library leaders develop coaching skills. They discussed three key issues that influence workplace burnout, based on the scholarly literature: competence, relatedness,…