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Unexpectedly in Leadership?
Unexpectedly finding yourself at the helm? Feeling unprepared for the sudden weight of leadership? You’re not alone. Many business and organizational leaders haven’t followed a traditional C-suite...
Improve Your Leadership Skills with Positive Intelligence®
You've probably noticed that as people succeed in work, leadership is expected from those successful individuals. High-achieving individuals are given leadership roles, or they are expected to be...
Work-Life Harmony
During the worst part of the pandemic, I was coaching an executive at a Fortune 500 company regarding critical innovative work that he was doing. Meanwhile, his five-year old was doing kindergarten...
Forbes Expert Panel: 15 Expert Tips For Turning Leadership Weaknesses Into Strengths
Forbes Coaches Council: Top coaches offer insights on leadership development & careers. As a business leader, it can be challenging to look at areas where your performance may fall short....
Forbes Expert Panel: 14 Time-Management Practices For Completing Your To-Do List
Dr. Chris Allen contributes one of her time-management tips to the Forbes Coaches Council Expert Panel
Five Ways Organizations Can Level Up Their Team Building
Workplace psychologist Dr. Chris Allen helps organizations get results by developing teams that create high value. As a Forbes Coaches Council contributor, Dr. Allen offers regular insights on...
Forbes Q/A: 15 Ways Leaders Can Hone Active Listening Skills (And Why They Should)
Forbes Coaches Council: Top coaches offer insights on leadership development & careers. Leaders often rise to their positions by making their voices heard as individual contributors. Once they...
The Challenge of Managing Difficult Conversations: How You Can Improve and Why You Should Try
So much important work that needs to happen in organizations does not happen because people don't resolve conflicts with other people with whom they work. It is astonishing to me how frequently this...
Forbes Q/A: 14 Effective Ways To Bring Your “Whole Self” To Work
Forbes Coaches Council: Top coaches offer insights on leadership development & careers. The idea of bringing one’s “whole self” to work has been a major topic of conversation and thought...
Building Communication, Team Work, and Individual Strengths through PeopleMap™ Workshops in 2022
After a fairly lengthy pandemic-driven drought, we are overjoyed to be using the PeopleMap™ tool again to help individuals learn to understand and leverage personal strengths and connect with others...