The Bright Blog

I am often asked (usually by people who have never been lucky enough to have a great executive coach) - who can benefit from coaching? The situations are endless, but here are five situations where coaching can be particularly effective: 1. You just got promoted. And you really want it to go well. Coaches can really help you in a number of areas when you move up the ranks in an organization. They can help you assess the skills you have and the skills you may need to succeed

Managing the overwhelming feelings of overwhelm is one of the most popular topics I discuss with working women. Without exception, all of the paid working moms I know (I list "paid," since all moms are working moms) can cite to do lists that include a wide range of activities: preparing for the Board presentation, securing a coveted spot in summer swimming lessons, finishing the budget submission, pricing a new family cell phone plan... and on and on... (By the way, those are

My dear fellow workaholics and overachievers, I just learned a new, amazing, powerful skill that I wanted to share with you. This skill has the ability to literally change your life and make you even MORE productive and effective at work and home. What is this amazing new skill you ask? It's not a new way to manage your time or a plan to work a four-hour workday and still get promoted. It is a skill that I am sure you have been told about and fundamentally rejected for years,

Don't have a lot of time, but still want great advice you can use TODAY to begin to increase the integration of and balance between your work and home lives? Here are five articles that are well worth your limited time. ONE: How Working Parents Can Feel Less Overwhelmed and More in Control by Daisy Wademan Dowling offers an realistic, approachable plan for how to manage your nightmare of a to do list and gain back some sanity in your life. The author's steps include applying

The feelings are common to many of us who suffer from overachievement: a sense of dread when you review your eve​r evolving To Do List, a rush of anxiety when you realize you only have nine minutes before your next meeting, and exhaustion you can feel in your bones. You. Are. Overwhelmed. Overwhelm can become a badge of honor in some organizations. And for an overachiever/high-performance type, overwhelm can become a near constant state. So how do you break the cycle of back-

Spending the past 20 years in communication-centric roles have taught me many important lessons, including the power of Clarity. These hard earned lessons around Clarity (and supported by numerous academic studies) have found their way into my work with clients. Two key themes fuel my coaching approach: Clarity and Alignment. In coaching, Clarity brings two valuable results to clients: Clarity creates a road map. If we know what we value, we can craft a life that allows us to

Stress used to be really, really useful. Long ago, when we needed to run away from the tigers hiding in the bushes, stress gave us the valuable ability to "fight or flight." Hormones diverted energy from "non-essential" functions like digestion and reproduction, and fed our muscles and minds with the energy we needed to run or fight the tiger. Then the world evolved. We now only see tigers in zoos. But, our bodies did not evolve as quickly. So, the very same chemicals that he

Nashville is booming. We are experiencing job growth that outpaces almost every other city in the nation. This is a great time to be in a job search in Nashville, right? Well, maybe. Over the past few years, I have worked with dozens of individuals who are trying to decide if they want to move up or out of their current role. Additionally, I have worked with a number of senior-level leaders that were downsized as companies have tried to reduce middle and upper-management rost