By Rachel Verlik, PCC. How well do you create and honor your boundaries? And why do they matter? Consider the case of Sarita*, a director of product development in a well-known public company. Sarita is well liked within her organization, and the company is investing...
Hooray for Arden Coaching! (if we do say so ourselves) This month we were certified (again) as a Woman-Owned Business by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC)! As a fully woman-owned and operated business, we are proud of our 13 year history in...
Let’s be honest, most of us do not like change. We’re pretty bad at it. Organizational change upsets our routines. It may threaten to make our hard-earned expertise less important, or even obsolete. Change endangers the influence we might have throughout our formal...
By Linda Bodnar, PhD, PCC. Over the last five or ten years, I have seen so many leaders become increasingly overwhelmed and overloaded. As other leaders leave or organizations restructure, they are asked to take on additional work with no additional resources. ...
One of the fundamental elements of authentic leadership — providing leadership that inspires, motivates, and raises people up — is trust. And one of the core ingredients in establishing trust is empathy. “I Really Feel My Boss Cares About Me” Empathy is the capacity...
By Laura Hansen, PCC. Resilience “an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change.” -- Merriam-Webster Dictionary A crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic challenges us to continually keep tabs on our well-being. Working on our emotional, mental,...
By Eva Szekeres, MA, PCC. The world has been inspired by exemplary female leadership — in Germany, Taiwan, New Zealand, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Denmark — during the current COVID-19 crisis. In spite of the fact that women are massively underrepresented among the...
How can leaders help their team stay focused and productive during periods of high uncertainty and stress? Work can be challenging enough during a normal work day. When you add the strain of working remotely, online home-schooling, anxiety about the health of your...
By Tom Henschel, Executive Coach. Berta was struggling with working at home. As a senior leader she felt responsible for a lot of people. As much as she loved her family, she felt called to to do her work. Moving her workspace into her basement helped. She was...
By Lyne Desormeaux, PsyD, MCC. A few clients of mine have recently been working on being more assertive or coming across has being empowered. Some are getting feedback that they seem to be saying yes too easily, or aren’t regarded as having authority or being...