Have you ever found yourself in the situation when someone at work is trying to sabotage your work? There are signs or behaviors that a team member is undermining your leadership. You cannot really put…
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On caring, leaving our comfort zone, and being wild and free at a yoga and meditation retreat in Costa Rica
Have you ever felt as your responsibilities are tying you down like the mooring ropes of a boat that keeps the vessel from recklessly floating out to sea? I have. Even if I proudly built…
Times are uncertain and ambiguous – How can we cope with a constantly changing reality that is mostly out of our control?
The most popular podcast episode of my podcast Leading and Living Well- with Kat during 2022 was the March 2022 episode Living and Leading during VUCA Times- Pandemic Flux Syndrome and much more… So I…
International Women’s Day – On women’s well-being at work – menopause
Being a woman is wonderful and complicated. We are the creators of life as we cycle through the periods of life. From girlhood via womanhood to motherhood and wise-woman. Women’s health has been and still…
Yikes! I’ve Lost the Ability to Interact in-person at Work
Anecdotal information from my network is telling me that we have grown comfortable with zoom and teams’ meetings while live in-person interactions now feel stressful, and even odd. We are experts at expressing and reading emotions with our eyes and foreheads only. Smiling with our eyes as we wear a facemask. How to transition back to in-person work?
Who am I as a Leader? – On Finding your Leadership Style
How do you discover your own authentic leadership style and is there only one style that is truly your personal leadership approach?
These are questions we often ask ourselves.
A quick online search on ‘leadership styles’ will give you several different answers. Some articles list five, others six, another one ten and so on.
How do you know what expert to listen to and what list of leadership styles to use when selecting yours? Is there one style that fits everyone everywhere and always?
Difficult Conversations made Easy – Part 2 During the Meeting
In episode 11 we looked at the six steps to take to prepare for a challenging conversation, they included among others, to have a clear goal, to check your assumptions, and to try to understand and anticipate the other’s goals and needs.
Let us imagine that you are now having that so called difficult conversation. Perhaps you are connected virtually by video conference. How do you start?
First focus on creating trust. How do we create trust? By communicating positive intentions, being honest and transparent in our messaging and my listening.
Resilience Needs Company to Grow
Staying motivated and resilient into the new year feels like biking on a long flat road, with a strong headwind. I’m pedaling hard but I seem to stand still. Here are five tips how to keep on moving
Are We Talking too Much About Being Busy and Burnout?
How do we talk about our work and life? What’s the narrative we are creating? Is our story all about our stress and busyness? Are we glorifying being busy? I admit I fall into this pattern myself. It was my need to be busy, to work hard and prove myself that contributed (only one aspect of many complicated ones) to my burnout. Being busy was an important part of my identity. It still is. I’ve had to re-evaluate my values and beliefs and my sense of self to create a way of living that is healthier and more in harmony with what I need and what I must do.
The stories we create about our lives and who we are shape our lives and who we become. Perhaps it is time to change the narrative? Is there a happy and fulfilled busy? A busy that does not result in burnout?
How Do You Change a Culture?
“America: the land of the free and the vacation-deprived”, this according to an article in Huffpost on 6.7.2019. For an immigrant from Finland who has called the USA my home for 21 years my fellow…