Recently a client and I worked through a huge leadership step for her – one that she was afraid to take. She knew that she needed to move on; she knew that it was most likely a right step; she knew that she wanted to go forward. But she was stuck, because she was scared.
“What if it doesn’t work out?” she questioned. “What if I’m wrong? What if I take this step, and I don’t know what to do next???”
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Talk to anyone in any workplace and it never fails that the topic of endless, pointless meetings comes up. It seems that the number of meetings – whether face-to-face, conference call, or video/web-based – is on the rise. One executive I worked with shared her calendar with me to demonstrate the point. She had a week full of meetings, many of which overlapped. “How can you be in two places at one time?” I asked. “Well, I’ll start out in this meeting and then leave early to catch the last half of that meeting,” she answered. Sounds awfully stressful and unproductive to me!
