Author name: Laura Close

I’m curious if you can articulate your own success? After hundreds of client intake sessions, I’ve identified these three root causes of success aversion.

You might feel like I’m lying to you, and that you don’t have a creative bone left in your body. Creativity is for 20 year olds and hippies. It’s not true. We need what you are going to develop. But first you have to stop saying yes.

Apparently it’s hard for me to talk about soft power strategies for professionals without sounding like a total jerk. Let’s dive in.

Some of you already know I love working with immigrants. Fresh off the boat, first generation in the States, I’ll take it all.

For new clients there can be a fear that once I learn about your weak spot I’ll say: “Oh I see. Well in that case we’ll have to set really small goals for you.”

On any given month one of the local behemoths –Amazon, Starbucks, Microsoft has a director or manager in my office bracing for their ReOrg. Here are four common ways that stress among staff manifests in the work environment..

Endless multitasking, I would suggest, is a behavior ultimately rooted in anxiety. It lands in the body at the same vibration as fear.

Work no longer requires you to serve one master employer, work no longer even requires you to be rigorously tested in every aspect of what you produce. Work now requires that you grow continuously as a person.

If you were not promoted when you believe you should have been, the investigation is two fold: A) Is it you? or B) Is it them? We start with A.

With my scrappy, driven clients one part of our work together is assessing when to bring the fight (and how to begin with diplomacy) and when to opt out.