I'm a freelance HR content marketing writer specializing in talent management, employee engagement, and L&D. My clients include The Predictive Index, TINYpulse, Culture Amp, TestGorilla, and Lifehack.
5 Ways to Integrate Coaching into Your Managing Style
Coaching is crucial to keeping today's employees engaged and productive. With the fast pace of today's workplace, employees need to keep current with the new skills needed to thrive in their jobs.
The Evolution of Performance Management: 3 Ways Performance Management Has Changed
Article on how performance management has changed and evolved over the years.
The Why, How, and What of Objectives & Key Results (OKRs)
Writing an E-book on the topic of OKRs.
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What every company should get obsessed with
What do you do when you win? You celebrate.
But what do you do when you lose? You sulk (OK, just a little bit), and then you pick yourself up and analyze what went wrong so you can prevent it from happening next time.
Learning from failure can lead to innovation. But what if your company can’t afford to make big mistakes? What if the only mistakes you have space for are the tiny ones because the big ones will force your business to go down?
Here’s the story of one organization that couldn’t a...
The power of company culture
How many of you have tried changing how things run in your company only to fail? Maybe you walked away scratching your head. Where did we go wrong? What do we need to do to make our company better?
We think it’s strategy and tactics because we’re taught to think in those terms. But there’s something underneath our strategies and tactics that prevents us from reaching the goals we set: company culture.
Peter Drucker, one of the biggest management masterminds of the 20th century said it best, “...
Why every leader should make value-based decisions
“How can I respond to this situation in such a way that I am able to express my most deeply held values?”
Desmond T. Doss asked himself this question as he figured out how to express his most deeply held value—pacifism. There was just one problem: it was 1945 and he was on the front line in World World II.
Doss didn’t believe in using violence to solve problems. He didn’t want to touch a weapon, let alone use one. But he found a way to serve his country while staying true to his values. As a ...
Do you know the person across the table?
Back in the 1980s, there was a huge rivalry between two of the best chess players at the time: Karpov and Kasparov.
Karpov played chess like an anaconda, slowly strangling his opponents by playing defense. This type of chess is slow and deliberate; the main task is to limit the moves your opponent can take.
Kasparov was the complete opposite. His style of play was attacking—fast and aggressive, with a pinch of arrogance.
Kasparov won five championship matches against Karpov. He became the you...
How a game saved one man’s life
Why are games—which can be frustrating, hard, and repetitive—so much fun while work, well, isn’t? What makes puzzles and solitaire fun, but doing your taxes and reports dreadful?
The answer can be found in a story of one mountain, two men, six miles, and a lot of snow.
The story of Joe Simpson
The bottom of a cold, dark, and secluded hundred-foot abyss: that was the rock bottom mountaineer Joe Simpson hit in 1985.
Clothed in full mountain gear, Joe and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, stood...
Lead your team like Ernest Shackleton.
It was October of 1915 when the great explorer Ernest Shackleton ordered his men to abandon the ship Endurance, which was trapped in an ice floe in the Antarctican sea. The ship was leaking water and the ice floes breached the hull of the ship.
Suddenly, the mission to cross Antarctica on foot became a survival based one—reach the nearest known outpost of humanity, which was more than 1,200 miles away.
The endeavor lasted nearly two years. In the end, all 28 people from the British Imperial T...
5 Not-So-Popular but Effective Ways Success Works
There is a lot out there written about success. People tell you to try this out, use this hack or buy that course because it will make you successful. The truth is… well, the truth. And the truth is messy, unpopular, and something we often don’t want to hear. That’s exactly why we need to hear it – because the popular, sugarcoated examples aren’t leading us to success.
So here are the 5 not so popular, but effective, ways success works:
1. Consistency trumps everything
It’s not about hustling...
Feeling Unmotivated During the Day? Best Morning Routine for Success
The alarm sounds and you begrudgingly turn around in your bed, hitting the alarm clock with everything you got just to shut it down.
Another morning, another drag. You take yourself out of the bed and immediately curse the day starting this early, no matter how much time it actually is.
The rest of your day follows your morning and you feel out of energy, out of motivation and out of luck. You simply start to hate your days.
But what if I told you that your day doesn’t have to start like this...
5 Characteristics That Will Make You an Unstoppable Force
“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard times.” This was first mentioned by Plato in Republic and has been a truth ever since. But there is a way you can break this never-ending circle and it begins and ends with personal responsibility and growth.
When people break this cycle, they displayed the following 5 characteristics that made them unstoppable:
1. Become a leader of men
Easier said than done. To become a leader of me...
Beware the Guru Who Doesn’t Practice What They Preach
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Getting to 1+1=3: The 3 Types of Relationships in Your Life
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Goals vs Objectives: How to Use Them to Become Successful in Life?
You’re at home with your family and you’re planning a vacation for the upcoming summer time. The family sits down and you start discussing options and after an hour, you decide you will rent a modern trailer and drive from your current location (New York) to Miami for vacation. Miami is your goal and all the necessary steps to getting there are your objectives.
Throughout the article, I will refer to the above-mentioned metaphor to explain goals, objectives and the relationship and difference...