What’s holding back my personal productivity?
Very honest guest blog on his limiting beliefs around will power. It’s also a partial book review for an excellent book I recommend myself. -Coach Wolfgang My full-time job keeps me pretty busy and that’s before I tack on the responsibilities that come with family, having a few rental properties and supporting my partner with […]
Challenge: Boost your Career with Diet, Exercise & Sleep
I’m not a nutritionist, health trainer or sleep expert but I have a story from a client about a big transformation he made recently. -Coach Wolfgang I enjoy being productive and want to improve my output. Part of me thinks that I’m somehow addicted to some chemical my brain releases while I’m working and being […]
Move Your Job From Doing Tasks to Developing Strategy
Does this sound like your job description? Meet with my boss once or twice per week, write down all the things she would like me to do, then try to get them done before our next meeting. I think a lot of us feel this way on some level. Recently, I worked with a client […]
Why Don’t I Believe in Myself?
Please read this guest blog from a client of mine. It’s an uplifting story about the power of exploring who you are. I saw a great job description the other day – Director of Operations at a downtown start-up. It had all the things that I want to be doing! I felt confident about meeting […]
Employee Engagement: It Doesn’t Have to Be Bad To Be Better
I was speaking to a friend of mine recently about employee engagement and organizational culture. He is an executive at a small company in Austin and was talking about how happy and engaged his employees are. He and the other executive team members worked hard to create their culture and take pride in what they […]
The Push You Need to Fix Your Business or Job Search
If you are going to be an executive, an entrepreneur or an effective manager, you have to constantly develop new ways of looking at your business and then learn the skills to solve them. The most challenging part is just seeing the issues in your business that need changing the most. This is followed closely […]
Getting Co-workers to Follow Your New Process
Procedures – the rules of engagement and interaction your team or unit has devised to get work done collectively – are a necessary way of corporate life. You can’t just tell the development team to stop their projects and start working on a new feature you thought of yesterday. There are processes for evaluating ideas, […]
How to Find the Right Balance Communicating with Your Boss
This comes from a client and the insight he gained through our sessions and working with her boss. – Coach Wolfgang When Goldilocks went into the three bears’ house, she found one bowl of porridge too hot, another too cold and the last one just right. In a similar way, your new manager is wondering […]
How Negative People Can Ruin Your Performance at Work
Thanks to Monica Gomez for her guest blog. A brief bio is below. – Amy Most of us prefer to spend time with positive people rather than spend time with negative people. Happiness is contagious, and we feel better overall when surrounded by positive people. Even if you know that you prefer to be around […]
How to Set Career Goals for a More Successful & Productive Year
Dear Coach Wolfgang, what are your tips for having a more successful, productive and satisfying year at work? This is the time of the year when many of our clients want an objective take on their annual review from work. In fact, I recently contributed to a local newspaper article on this topic. In many […]