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Perfectionism in Leadership: 3 Practical Tips to Avoid the Trap

Perfectionism in Leadership: 3 Practical Tips to Avoid the Trap

Perfectionism, often thought of as a positive quality, can sometimes do more harm than good when it comes to leadership. While striving for excellence is essential, an excessive pursuit of perfection can lead to burnout and an overbearing work atmosphere. It's crucial for leaders to find a balance between high standards and practical expectations. Here […]

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Getting rid of your worst enemy

Getting rid of your worst enemy

I have heard the expression “I am my worst enemy”. And when we think about all the ways we can sabotage ourselves, procrastinate actions, diminish our successes and in general belittling ourselves affects us; we cannot just only make sense of the expression, but also realize that our mind is a powerful enemy with and […]

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When Overwhelmed by Organization, Accountability is your Ally

When Overwhelmed by Organization, Accountability is your Ally

Planners, bullet journals, erasable calendars, diaries; I could go on and on. I am a recovering organization nerd. Every year, right after Halloween, I start browsing the sites for a new planner for the upcoming year. While I’m surfing for the best choice, I can’t avoid the new craze over bullet journals, desktops with white […]

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A Coach’s Questions to Close Out the Year

A Coach’s Questions to Close Out the Year

As we close another annual cycle, it is almost impossible not to reflect on what was done or not done. We can delight again in the year’s successes and frustrate again on the things that we did not get to do. So many things to do and as usual so little time. And it is […]

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Vulnerability is an Asset not a Liability

Vulnerability is an Asset not a Liability

What do you think of when you hear the words, “I am accepted, and I am loved?” When I heard those words from a participant of EWOP last week, it was hard to hide the emotions. EWOP stands for Empowering Women Out of Prison. We go into a correctional facility and work directly with women […]

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Doubts to Dreams

Doubts to Dreams

Something many of you probably don’t know about me is that I love music. I don’t just play it in the background to drown out silence. I love music that makes me feel something on a deeper level and I’m repeatedly intrigued by the process of putting different sounds and harmonies together to create one […]

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Quiet Quitters

Quiet Quitters

The term “quiet quitters” seems to be floating around; it’s in the news, articles, survey results and conversations at the office. It’s a clever term that brings attention to serious matter impacting organizations. Some say the words describe a common problem felt by organizations for quite some time. But it doesn’t really matter whether it’s […]

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Greeting Tough Emotions with Curiosity

Greeting Tough Emotions with Curiosity

In coaching we use powerful questions to open up new avenues of thoughts that we hadn’t considered before, or even chosen to ignore. When you study it, you realize curiosity is a proven necessity for our psychological and physical development. If it weren’t for our curious minds pushing us to ask questions about the things […]

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The best stress reduction technique in difficult times.

The best stress reduction technique in difficult times.

The definition of stress that I found, says that stress is the feeling of being overwhelmed or unable to cope with mental or emotional pressure. And of course, emotional pressure escalates simply when things are not going the way we would like. I also learned from the neuroscience perspective that every time our brain needs […]

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Closing Cycles: How Change affects our Leadership

Closing Cycles: How Change affects our Leadership

The year is over! This is a typical expression that we began to hear since November, not to mention also in the last month of the year. The calendar has always been an important way to measure our life cycles; not only is it responsible for reminding us of birthdays and anniversaries, but it also […]

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Confidence in Spite of Comparison

Confidence in Spite of Comparison

Confidence: one of the most important qualities in determining our success, yet feels like the hardest feeling to accomplish daily. Why is that? When we are confident, a certain kind of energy is given off to those around us that enforces their confidence in us. But we live in a society where being confident in […]

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Time for your perfectionism? Not now, not ever.

Time for your perfectionism? Not now, not ever.

As I have worked with executives and new professional coaches, I have found that many times the main blockage for results is perfectionism. In my own work numerous times I have delayed, procrastinated, or abandoned things because they don’t reach the level of “perfection” that I needed.  The meaning I found in the dictionary for […]

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3 Tips para Socializar en Forma Proactiva Online

3 Tips para Socializar en Forma Proactiva Online

Con tanto cambio a nuestro alrededor, hemos tenido que buscar y crear herramientas para adaptarnos a nuestras rutinas diarias. Estar guardados en un lugar que se transformó de una cálida casa a oficina, gimnasio, mall online y cine, no ha sido un proceso fácil. Incluso a ratos, nos deja la sensación de no poder aguantar […]

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The Power of Meditation in Coaching and Communications

The Power of Meditation in Coaching and Communications

For the last 20 years I have been an avid meditator, skipping a few days here and there but mostly sticking to give myself the gift of 30 minutes of relaxing calm every morning training my brain. When I learned to meditate, I remember in one of the instructions from a guided meditation the phrase: […]

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THE REMOTE LEADER: Reframing Remote Working

THE REMOTE LEADER: Reframing Remote Working

Remote leadership is not a new thing but working from home, hybrid work and teams combining different working environments is still in constant evolution. Did you know that 1 out of 4 employees are already preparing to look for a new employment opportunity? And that almost half of the workers globally are considering leaving their […]

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Thriving Through the Dark Clouds

Thriving Through the Dark Clouds

To say this year’s been a whirlwind would be an understatement. After 2020, like many did, I thought this year was going to be a piece of cake with things finally falling back into place. I don’t know about you, but boy was I wrong. I’ve found myself facing several difficult times and trying to […]

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Elevating your Coaching: Team Coaching

Elevating your Coaching: Team Coaching

Imagine elevating the capabilities and results of the traditional coaching one on one to a whole team. If an individual gets outstanding results from self-exploration on setting clear and well-defined goals, establishing good plans and then executing, what would be the results from applying this same methodology to teams? From my perspective, I think it […]

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Board Room to Dining Room

Board Room to Dining Room

From the board room table to the dining room table, it’s what I tell most of my clients, the behaviors they are working hard to demonstrate as leaders carry over to their team at home. The team’s faces, activities and expectations are different, but we need to show up in even more important ways, we […]

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The Observer

The Observer

You can’t fire him; you better make it work for you and not against you.  Some people call it our consciousness, some people call it internal dialogue, I call it the observer. There is a part of our brain, the animal non-cognitive brain that without command or as a reaction to sensorial perceptions starts super–fast processes and in […]

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Designing your Emotions

Designing your Emotions

Did you know that your brain uses 20% of the energy in your body? It’s processing, interpreting, organizing and messaging other systems all of the time. 20% may not seem like much, but it’s actually the body part that uses the highest amount of energy. In order to maintain and perform at its peak, it […]

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3 Tips for Proactive Online Socializing

3 Tips for Proactive Online Socializing

With constant changes around us, we’ve had to embrace our own adaptation skills for our daily routines. Being contained in a place that transformed itself from a cozy home to office, gym, online shopping plaza and movie theater, has not been an easy process and at some times feels like we cannot take it anymore. […]

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Working with a Blank Canvas

Working with a Blank Canvas

I think of all the times we are asked to share ideas, to help solve problems, to brainstorm new ideas, how many of those times do we hold ourselves back? How many of those times do we question our ideas?  In a conversation with a friend, I asked her to describe a leader she really […]

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The Curiosity of a Beginner

The Curiosity of a Beginner

As kids, our curiosity has no limits. We embrace the world around us by questioning every bit of it that we experience. We aren’t afraid of annoying anyone or seeming like we don’t have everything under control. Instead, we find joy and excitement in learning about our environments and all that is a part of […]

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El Enojo: Enemigo Interno

El Enojo: Enemigo Interno

“Esta persona me hace enojar” es una expresión común; el enojo surge cuando alguien nos altera. Esta transición de nuestro estado “no enojado” a “enojado” es casi imperceptible. Por supuesto sabemos cuando nos enojamos, que estamos enojados o enojadísimos, pero cuando eso sucede ya pasamos el punto de transición de tranquilo a enojado. La energía […]

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Cheer up, what gives us joy?

Cheer up, what gives us joy?

Often situations in life can undermine our confidence, frustrate us and feel like obstacles that are difficult to overcome. Our morale decreases; the energy, excitement and passion we put into a new activity or enterprise is affected and replaced by a concern for failure, by a shadow, that continues putting us down and lowers our […]

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Ánimo, ¿Qué nos da ánimo?

Ánimo, ¿Qué nos da ánimo?

Con frecuencia las situaciones de la vida pueden mermar nuestra confianza, frustrarnos, cansarnos y sentirse como obstáculos difíciles de vencer. El estado de ánimo se describe a diferencia de las emociones que son más fugaces; como un estado más duradero de emoción que puede ser bueno o malo y que se ha ligado también a la […]

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El tiempo no es dinero

El tiempo no es dinero

El tiempo no es dinero. El dicho universal de “el tiempo es dinero” se hizo famoso por Benjamín Franklin cuando comparo minutos y horas con chelines y libras. Creo que el viejo Ben lo entendió todo mal, el tiempo no es dinero. Sí, el tiempo y el dinero tienen algunas similitudes: ambos son valiosos, importantes, limitados […]

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Time is not Money

Time is not Money

Time is not money. The universal dictum of “time is money” was made famous by Benjamin Franklin when he equated the passing minutes and hours to shillings and pounds. I believe good old Ben got it all wrong, time is not money; yes, time and money have some similarities, they are both valuable, important, limited and a […]

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No es Personal

No es Personal

“No es personal” es una frase de uso común cuando estamos haciendo comentarios o compartiendo malas noticias con alguien, normalmente sobre algo relacionado con el trabajo. Sabemos que cuando nos tomamos las cosas personalmente, nuestro cerebro reacciona con nuestro mecanismo de defensa animal que nos protege inmediatamente de cualquier forma de agresión. Incluso si lo […]

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Amor, amor, amor.

Amor, amor, amor.

El amor es un tema complejo cubierto por muchos poemas, libros, películas e historias. Sin duda, una parte intrínseca de nuestra vida, sin importar que trabajo, profesión o negocio tengamos. Siempre habrá un gran enfoque en nuestros seres queridos cuando se trata de nuestra lista de prioridades de tiempo y recursos. Podría ser tu esposo […]

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It’s Not Personal

It’s Not Personal

“It’s not personal”, is a commonly used phrase when we are either giving feedback or sharing bad news with someone about something at work. We know that when we take things personally our brain reacts with our animal defense mechanism immediately protecting us from any form of aggression.  Even if what we perceive as aggression is […]

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Love, love, love.

Love, love, love.

Love is a complex topic covered by so many poems, books, movies and stories. No doubt an intrinsic part of our human life no matter what job, profession or business we have. There will always be a big focus on our loved ones when it comes to our priority list for time and resources. It […]

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El Poder de la Conexión

El Poder de la Conexión

Todos sabemos que la soledad no es nada agradable. Cuando estamos solos y tenemos esa sensación de no estar conectados, las emociones negativas surgen fácilmente e incluso pueden llevarnos al punto de sentirnos deprimidos o completamente desmotivados. ¿Pero estamos haciendo algo al respecto? Como seres humanos, es parte de nuestra naturaleza es sentir una necesidad […]

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The Power of Connection

The Power of Connection

We all know that loneliness is not a nice thing. When we are lonely and we have that feeling of not being connected, negative emotions easily arise and can even hold us to the degree of feeling depressed or completely demotivated. But are we reaching out? As human beings part of our nature is a […]

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Coaching 101: Ask for clarity and understanding

Coaching 101: Ask for clarity and understanding

“You must hear the very same thing over and over again” my coachee said, as we finished the session.I have to admit, he caught me off guard and caused me to pause.  I think one of the things I have learned in my years of coaching through helping and challenging people in different situations, stages of their lives […]

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The 4 Priorities we Remember when Emergency Strikes

The 4 Priorities we Remember when Emergency Strikes

It is very unfortunate but mother nature reminds us of our fragility from time to time. In September 2017,  Greater Houston, the 4th largest city in the United Sates with almost 7 million habitants, was devastated with floods. We have been trapped in our homes with many roads closed and we have witnessed through news, […]

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5 Things To Beat The Public Speaking Fear

5 Things To Beat The Public Speaking Fear

They say that the 3 top fears for a human being are public speaking, death and dancing in public, and it seems they are in that order. As I have worked as a Coach and consultant with many people and as a manager of teams, I can confirm that public speaking fear is indeed very […]

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The 5 elements of a successful Coaching Culture Implementation.

The 5 elements of a successful Coaching Culture Implementation.

Coaching has become a popular formula for leadership development in organizations and it is migrating from a private engagement for top level executives with their coaches to organizations looking to create a full coaching culture in their workplaces. But what does that mean? Having a coaching culture is not telling your managers to coach better […]

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Communication skills that boost your leadership development

Communication skills that boost your leadership development

Being a good communicator is more than being able to speak clearly and effectively. There are three things you learn in coaching that can take your communication skills to the next level Active listening – A skill that requires you to fully concentrate, understand respond and remember what is being said. Much like art and […]

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How to get insight from a 10 minute dump

How to get insight from a 10 minute dump

Excuse the title but I couldn’t help myself, I thought getting you to smile a little is good for the soul. I know the title I chose could be interpreted many ways. In this particular case I want to share an activity that can be helpful in generating ideas, sharing thoughts, working out problems, looking […]

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The Communication Dance

The Communication Dance

There is a fine line between constructive criticism and just flat out disapproval. Being on the receiving end can either be helpful or make you defensive. We are all born with the ability to express ourselves; we all know how to display emotions and we all communicate them, unfortunately we are not all equipped with […]

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