Posted by: Nancy Raulston on: March 29, 2010
Acceptance — I used to hate that word. For me it seemed to mean being a passive victim, letting life happen TO you. That is one of the reasons I was drawn to work with start ups — those were people who were willing to take on the hard challenges, to fight for what they [...]
Posted by: Nancy Raulston on: March 24, 2010
“The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become” Charles du Bois I have always loved this quote — and never does it mean more to me than it does this week. It seems, as usual, my clients are giving me a gift [...]
Posted by: Nancy Raulston on: March 17, 2010
Ok, it’s Spring, which may be why the image of a tree came up when I was working with a client last week. The presenting problem was that they weren’t seeing the growth they had hoped would result from some recent activities. I asked them to imagine their company as a tree – look at [...]
Posted by: Nancy Raulston on: March 9, 2010
Some days I feel like I have the same conversation with client after client — today it was about focus. All came to me with a variation on the story “I/my team/my organization are exhausted — we have been keeping up an extraordinary effort and feeling like we are making no progress”. As they described [...]
Posted by: Nancy Raulston on: March 3, 2010
Universally, the people I work with hate performance reviews. While I agree that labor law has resulted in the process being somewhat bureaucratic, the purpose of the process remains valid: – to ensure alignment of employee effort against company priorities – to give the employee an opportunity to “course correct” on their efforts – to [...]
