Author name: Laura Close

How do you think Zuckerberg prepared for the congressional hearings? By skimming his resume? No. He wore fabulous clothes, had an A-team grill him in mock hearing preparations, just like we do in our private work together.

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.

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.

A difficult conversation with your direct report is ultimately a spiritual challenge, so my clients really love the concept of “bearing witness”.