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How do you handle yourself and lead during a professional crisis?

How do you handle yourself and lead during a professional crisis?

How Leadership Development Coaching Prepares You to Lead During a Professional Crisis Chaos… Racing thoughts… Rapid Heart Beat… Overwhelming anxiety… These are all the feelings that come up when we are faced with rapidly changing conditions, when crisis is upon us,...

Working at a Startup vs a Large Corporation: How to Choose

Working at a Startup vs a Large Corporation: How to Choose

The question of company stage and size comes up in many of my coaching conversations. “That company was so dull.” “That company was so disorganized, they never had resources and didn’t know what they were doing.” Sound familiar? We all have strong feelings about the...

Time is money, but over time

Time is money, but over time

Management Coaching for Better Time Management and Leadership How to manage your available time wisely while you still have it. Time is money, they say, when talking about how much it costs for a very busy and important person to attend to a task. Have you considered...

Premature Optimizations of All Kinds

Premature Optimizations of All Kinds

Premature Optimizations of All Kinds How to stop building and start listening? As engineers and engineering managers our minds are wired to build. Give us a problem statement and we will get on solving it. This force is tremendous and makes us very successful at what...

Is there life after a bootcamp?

Is there life after a bootcamp?

How to Advance in Your Career with Online Career Coaching You are on top of the world. Welcome to the software world! After grueling weeks and months, you are finally done with your coding bootcamp. You have built tech that you could not build before and now you...

What is possible? Are you limiting the future horizons?

What is possible? Are you limiting the future horizons?

What is Possible? Are You Limiting Your Future Horizons? Our past experiences can sometimes limit our possibilities for the future. Try to expand your horizons beyond what you already have experienced for fresh perspectives and opportunities. How brings you here? Do...

From Chaos to Structure on the Operations Team

From Chaos to Structure on the Operations Team

Problem Challenges for a Manager: From Chaos to Structured Operations At my previous technology job, I was assigned a team that was malfunctioning and had a reputation of not being able to do much quality work. Nothing would ever come out of it, and when it did, it...

Building and Formalizing Career Ladder in a Startup

Building and Formalizing Career Ladder in a Startup

Problem "Most engineers dream of continuously growing and expanding their skills and competencies, but not always do they know how to." "Small startups typically lack career ladders which curtail their growth." "While essential -- due to the small size of their teams...

Become a learning guru & conquer learning anxiety

Become a learning guru & conquer learning anxiety

Become a Learning Guru and Conquer Learning Anxiety Every time we face a novel task we might face a learning anxiety. This anxiety makes us feel that perhaps this time we won’t be able to handle the challenge. While this can happen to the best of us, there are...