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Leadership Maturity & Taking a Stand
As a leader, how are you navigating all of the uncertainty in the world? Let’s face it: we have all learned plenty of lessons in the last couple of years about how uncertainty shows up. The pandemic launched us into a world of unknowns where all bets are off in terms...
Using the Enneagram as a Leadership Maturity Tool
Many of you may have heard about the Enneagram by now–it seems to be everywhere. When I started studying it in my 20s, it was the “Ennea-what?” But now, I can’t seem to check my Instagram account or get on YouTube without seeing dozens of Enneagram quizzes, memes,...
Kraft Your Success By Leveraging Your Strengths
"What are 3 things you do really well that differentiate you from others?" I asked my client last week. She is in a sales position in a technology company and is in the process of working toward a new leadership role. We were discussing how to improve her executive...
Does Your Brain Need a Vacation?
It was nearly 80 degrees in the city of San Francisco yesterday. As one person mentioned in our phone call, "it's one of about 5 days a year where you want air conditioning in San Francisco". I worked from my home office all-day and felt the warmth come in through...
What’s the Buzz About Employee Engagement?
Turns out that if you're happy and you know it, that helps. In 2014’s last issue of INC., there is an extensively reported article about employee engagement that concludes with “So don’t worry about employee engagement.” It’s funny and ironic, in an article about one...
The Future of Leadership Traits: Are they inherently feminine?
Why is a man lecturing a roomful of women about feminine leadership traits? I was at the 3% Conference: in San Francisco, a diversity gathering named for the dismal fact that only three percent of creative directors in advertising are women—though woman are estimated...
Kraft Your Success by Staying True to your Vision
A few weeks ago, I had the great pleasure of attending the Wisdom 2.0 conference. Wow! What a powerful 4 days of thought leaders brought together around a common purpose and interest: To explore how we can live with mindfulness, wisdom and compassion in the...
Kraft Your Success by Increasing your Meaning Quotient
What gives you meaning at work?It’s a big question, yes. But I believe it's one of the most important.Check out this interesting piece from McKinsey. It’s no longer just about IQ or EQ (Emotional Intelligence), but they suggest it’s about MQ (Meaning quotient) and...
Kraft Your Success by Proactively Designing Your Career Path
Career Resolutions: What's on your list? by Adriana Trevino, Kraft Your Success Partner The beginning of a new year is often a time when people reflect on the past year and make one or multiple resolutions. Some familiar themes are related to health such as...
Prepare for What’s Wanting to Happen!
What a year it has been for many of us! As with every year, I take a look at the year in review - the wins, gains, losses and disappointments - and most importantly, the lessons learned. From a business perspective, 2011 has been a big year for us at Kraft Your...
Kraft Your Success by Starting Now!
Last week I had a meeting with a client who is challenged with something that many of us have in the current work environment: difficult time focusing and getting all the work done. Our development plan is to help her with focus, clarity and simplicity in her approach...
Kraft Your Success by Identifying What’s Really Important to You
A couple of weeks ago I had the honor of speaking on behalf of the Professional Business Women of California (PBWC) on the subject of "Maximizing Productivity - Identifying What's Really Important to You and Creating the Time and Space to Make it Happen" To my...
Kraft Your Success by Maximizing Your Productivity
I've been doing a lot of speaking and training on the topic of "Maximizing Your Productivity" (for our upcoming webinar click here). To Kraft Your Success, this means starting from a place of identifying what you really want and then creating the time and space to...
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“Personal mastery is the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of seeing reality objectively. As such, it is an essential cornerstone of the learning organization—the learning organization’s spiritual foundation.”
Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline
