What most colleagues know – the end of the calendar year is an important talent management time that includes employee self-ratings, calibration meetings, performance reviews, and succession planning. The information gathered during this process is used to determine employee performance and …
September – Take Charge of Your Career
I hope you found the time to relax, recharge and reflect in August. Welcome to September! During “The Hidden Golden Quarter” (May – July), you focused your energy on accomplishing your major goals. It is time for a major shift in mindset, focus and effort. Specifically: Shift your mindset …
August Take Charge of Your Career
Welcome to August! If you’ve stuck with my monthly career navigation suggestions, congratulations on completing “The Hidden Golden Quarter.” Investing time and resources to work on critical priorities, implementing meaningful change, and expanding your relationships across the organization. Your …
July Take Charge of Your Career
July is a pivotal month. This is the time to get “Evaluation-Based” feedback on your performance. Your goal is to find out how well you are doing compared to your peers. If you work for a large company, or one with a formal performance management process, this information is typically shared …
Reflections – Developing People
Her New Standard, an organization that provides business consulting and services that help women leaders advance, posed the question, “What makes a manager GREAT at developing people?” I was one of three leaders asked to share my perspective. Click on the link to see their post. (LINK) This …
June Take Charge of Your Career
Welcome to June, the second month of what I call “The Hidden Golden Quarter.” Just like May, June and July are usually months with great autonomy. June is a time to solidify results for the first half of the year. In addition, it is a perfect time for reflection. We are accustomed to year-end …
Reflections – Making Your Case to the C-Suite
I had the pleasure of conducting a workshop for the Society of General Internal Medicine with Dr. David L. Longworth, an infectious disease clinician and former President of Lahey Hospital and Medical Center. We wanted to share principles for influencing senior leaders based on our combined 60 …
May Take Charge of Your Career
Welcome to May, the start of what I call “The Hidden Golden Quarter.” May through July is usually a period of great autonomy. A period when you have the most control over your time and resources to implement changes, work on priorities, and deliver results. Why focus on this time period? …
Reflections – What To Do When Things Are Not Working
You are frustrated! The leadership team is not effective, or the training programs you designed are not building the skills the organization needs, or teams are not delivering results and/or achieving goals. You have spent money on high-priced consultants and launched internal change management …
April Take Charge of Your Career
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Sally Helgesen (LINK), an expert on women’s leadership, and internationally best-selling author, speaker and leadership coach for Her New Standard (LINK). In Sally’s book How Women Rise, co-authored with Marshall Goldsmith, they highlight two habits that …
Reflections – The Power of Peer-to-Peer Networks
I reconnected with an elementary and high-school classmate and friend, Darrell Byers. He visited my mother, his third-grade teacher, on a trip to see family in Springfield. We swapped stories, pictures, and shared our career journeys. Darrell is the CEO of Interise Inc., a Boston-based nonprofit …
March – Take Charge of Your Career
Welcome to March. Time flies faster than you think, it is almost the end of the first quarter. March is the time to focus on two things – finalizing your development plan, and delivering your first results… Translate February Feedback into a Development Plan In February you collected …