PLEASE, STOP TELLING PEOPLE THEY HAVE IMPOSTER SYNDROME! Are you a fraud? Are you an imposter? Are you worried ‘they’ will find you out? These types of statements are just a small selection of the many that our clients and people in STEMM say on a daily basis. These statements and thoughts ruminate in their heads and render them impotent…
Many of us jump quickly into labelling either ourselves or others. The “difficult client”, the “obstructive team member”, the “fake person”, and “imposter syndrome”. When we repeat negative statements or labels to ourselves they become our belief. They set ourselves and others up to be limited to that label and to take on all the expectations that we and society…
The conversation you are most resisting is the conversation you most need to have! What I mean by this is, all too often we get upset or hurt by someone, it could be a work colleague, a boss, it could even be someone in our family and we want to say something but think to ourselves that we better not. …
Many organisations fail to recognise the connection between communication and teams. They have a deep fear of losing good people yet are unsure what to do to prevent it. We all want to have clear and concise communication, be highly productive, and feel that we have the best organisation to attract and keep the most skilled people in their field.…
Society sets us up to believe the old adage: to be successful and get ahead in our career we must be competitive and win at all costs. Many people take this need to be competitive and ‘win’ in their career, to the point of bad-mouthing others, treating others like crap, and even engaging in bullying or harassment tactics to get…
How often do we get frustrated because we think we have communicated clearly, yet the response is off-track? Or we hear someone else’s request, progress, and delivery only to find out we over-or under-estimated what was required. If you’re anything like me (Elizabeth) this happens, and at times continues to happen, especially when we are under the pump, sharing new…