As we start the new year I like to first take a moment and have my clients focus on their wins for the previous year. What are you most proud about and why? Your wins can be big or small. It’s important to focus on what went well and what accomplishments you achieved. They could […]
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Success Magazine Interview with Alissa Finerman
Success Magazine interviews Alissa Finerman about her book, Living in YOUR Top 1%, and aligning goals with your values for greater success. Enjoy and feel free to share! Success Magazine interview http://www.success.com/podcast/alissa-finerman-on-how-to-align-your-choices-with-your-goals About Alissa Alissa Finerman is an Executive Coach and Gallup Certified Strengths Coach, speaker and author of Living in YOUR Top 1%. She […]
Sharing Your Voice
This past year I’ve had the opportunity to work with emerging leaders, managers and established leaders in various industries including commercial real estate, education, legal services, food industry, finance, accounting, security, tech and more. What’s most interesting to me is that regardless of the industry, role or title we all face many of the same […]
Building a Strengths Based Leadership Brand
What Does Your Brand of Leadership? this article was featured on the Virgin entrepreneur blog Leaders can be effective with a variety of styles. There is no one size fits all model for success. While some study the styles of others, it’s even more important to develop your natural style that plays to your strengths. […]
Strengths Partnering for Greater Success
If you had to list 3 things that annoy and frustrate you about people you work with or 3 strengths and ways the people you work with add value and contribute to the team, which would be easier for you? When I ask this question in my Leveraging Strengths for Success Team Seminar, the answer […]
The Strengths Spectrum: Where Do You Stand?
We all have strengths — defined by Gallup as the ability to consistently provide near perfect performance (ie, the customer service rep who can consistently turn an angry customer into a happy customer). Strengths are not just something you are good at — they need to give you energy. Sometimes we use our strengths effectively […]
Using Emotional Intelligence to Fuel Success
* This article was featured on Positively Positive How many times have you had an interaction with someone who is really smart (in terms of IQ) but has no clue as to how you are feeling, what you are thinking or how to handle a challenging situation? The person may have gone to all the […]
Why Strengths Matter
* This article was featured on the Wharton Magazine Blog Our strengths define who we are. They make us unique. The surprising part is many people do not know their strengths and others do not effectively use them. To the extent we can use our strengths, people are six times more likely to be “engaged” […]
