Posts Tagged ‘Career Coach’
How to Shut Screaming Mimi Up
May 20, 2010 | 
Author Article #2 in the series “The Dirty Dozen of Bad Bosses”
Screaming Mimi costs the company more than she’s worth. She’s needy, fickle, and stubborn, and her peers and subordinates never know when she’s going to throw a tantrum… and she’s still your boss.
As tempting and as justified as you may feel to assume the victim role in this story, it puts you in a position of powerlessness, and you lose the opportunity to grow. Today, we’re going to take a more active and empowering approach.
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Dear Beyonce…Just Turn The Phone Off!
One of the side effects of incorporating Principle #1 of Jack Canfield’s Success Principles is that I have become acutely aware of how our culture influences us to abdicate our accountability and responsibility, most especially what’s being played on the radio.
Posted in Living the Success Principles | Tags: Action Coach, Brain-based Coaching, business coach, Career Coach, Career Management, Carolann Jacobs, coach, coaching, Corporate Coach, DFW, Executive Coaching, Extraordinary Results, Inimitable Leadership, Inspired Workplace, Leadership, Leadership Coach, Legacy Leadership, managewhich, Neuroleadership, vivid epiphany | No Comments »
Bad Bosses… We’re Calling You Out By Name!
I’ve been talking about the topic of bad bosses on my segment of the CelebrityU Radio/TV show, and I am also going to feature it on the blog as a series. If you’d like to see/hear part of this segment, check it out here:
Carolann talking about bad bosses on CelebrityU Radio/TV
Posted in Bad Bosses | Tags: Action Coach, Brain-based Coaching, business coach, Career Coach, Career Management, Carolann Jacobs, coach, coaching, Corporate Coach, DFW, Executive Coaching, Extraordinary Results, facilitation, Inimitable Leadership, Leadership, Legacy Leadership, vivid epiphany | 1 Comment »
Man (or Woman) Up! Curing the Epidemic of Weak Leadership
This morning I was attending the Young Women Executives Forum at the Tower Club, and today’s topic was Conflict Management. This is a topic that I hit with my coaching clients 100% of the time.
We all have a default mode for dealing with conflict. Some people use the “my way or the highway” approach. Others are passive-aggressive. Others stuff their point of view down like a philly cheesesteak, and what comes back up when they get a overstuffed ain’t pretty.
Posted in Inspired Middle Management, Leadership | Tags: Action Coach, Brain-based Coaching, business coach, Career Coach, Career Management, Carolann Jacobs, coach, coaching, conflict management, Corporate Coach, DFW, Executive Coach, Extraordinary Results, facilitation, Growth Coach, Inimitable Leadership, Inspired Workplace, Leadership Coach, Legacy Leadership, managewhich, Neuroleadership, vivid epiphany | No Comments »
You Don’t Have to Leave the Cubicle
There’s been a lot of hype lately around escaping the cubicle. It isn’t for everyone. For many, it isn’t realistic considering their current resources, and for some people, going out on their own would be downright irresponsible.
Many of the people who call me looking for coaching services are miserable in their jobs, have been for a while. They’re fed up and burned out. They want to quit.
Posted in Career Management | Tags: Action Coach, Brain-based Coaching, business coach, Career Coach, Career Management, Carolann Jacobs, coach, coaching, Corporate Coach, DFW, Executive Coach, Executive Coaching, Extraordinary Results, facilitation, Inimitable Leadership, Inspired Workplace, Leadership, Legacy Leadership, managewich, Middle Management, middle manager, Neuroleadership, vivid epiphany | 1 Comment »
Giving up “Because”, Keeping the F-Bomb
Many of you may know that I am on the path to earn my Master Trainer’s Certification in Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP). For those of you who are unfamiliar with NLP, it is model which explains how we process information that comes to us from the outside (and our internal Negative Nelly). As both an ever evolving person and as a practitioner, I am working on being more deliberate with my use of language.
Posted in Life Coaching | Tags: Action Coach, Brain-based Coaching, business coach, Career Coach, Career Management, Carolann Jacobs, DFW, Executive Coach, Executive Coaching, Extraordinary Results, Inimitable Leadership, Inspired Workplace, Leadership, Legacy Leadership, managewhich, Middle Management, Neuroleadership, neuroscience, vivid epiphany | No Comments »
For the Managewhich and Business Owner: Who’s a Team Player?
Photo by Joseph Shemuel
Team Player is one of those phrases that we all assume we have the same definition for. It’s one of the performance management buzz-phrases that shows on reviews and on job descriptions. And, we all think we know what it means, but do we?
Posted in Career Management | Tags: Action Coach, Brain-based Coaching, business coach, Career Coach, Career Management, Carolann Jacobs, coach, coaching, conflict management, Corporate Coach, DFW, Extraordinary Results, facilitation, Growth Coach, Inimitable Leadership, Inspired Workplace, Leadership, Leadership Coach, Legacy Leadership, Middle Management, Middle Managers, Neuroleadership, vivid epiphany | No Comments »
Managewhich? What to do With Complete and Utter Incompetence
Photo by Ryan Schultz
Her name is Oblivia. She’s nice. People like her. And, she can’t get anything done.
Have you ever worked with someone who is Unconsciously Incompetent? That is to say, that they are so incompetent that they don’t even know that they are incompetent?
It’s rare. Most of us know when we really, truly suck at something. However, there are times…
Posted in Inspired Middle Management | Tags: Action Coach, Brain-based Coaching, business coach, Career Coach, Career Management, Carolann Jacobs, coach, Corporate Coach, DFW, Executive Coach, Executive Coaching, Extraordinary Results, Inimitable Leadership, Inspired Workplace, Leadership, Legacy Leadership, managewhich, managewich, Middle Management, middle manager, Neuroleadership, sandwich generation of managers, vivid epiphany | No Comments »
The Omniscient Managewich
I have a question for the sandwich generation of managers, middle managers or owner managers, stuck in the middle of competing priorities and agendas:
Why is it so hard to know what someone else really wants or believes, and yet, how is it that we know others’ intentions just by looking at their body language or actions?
Paradoxical, yes?
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Managewich Tips: Tired of Participating in the 80% of Change Initiatives That Fail?
Change is hard… or is it?
Think about a time when change was easy. What made it easy?
For me, a good example to illustrate how change does and doesn’t work is recycling.
At first, to recycle, we had to separate cans, glass and paper, and we had to sort through the plastics for the ones that could be recycled. There was a special, thinner, less sturdy bag that we had to use. We had to take it to the recycling center ourselves. I quit somewhere in the middle of the first bag of cans.
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