So you REALLY want to be a better people leader—or want to grow more effective people leaders across your organization—but it all feels so darn complicated these days, right? Hybrid workforces. Increased demands on pay and time off. Turnover turbulence. Economic headwinds. Fill in your company's crisis du jour here. 😱 I help leaders create fresh solutions to people problems, especially when it comes to retaining and motivating their best people. In a nutshell, I help you help people stay—and grow, and thrive. And when your people grow, you do, too. **Please know you're not alone. I see you, and I can help. One way to start is to sign up for my weekly Insider strategies and stories—ideas I only share with my private clients and with you directly in email. **
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So Reader, I'm off this week celebrating my birthday. 🎂 So instead of writing something for you, I wondered if you'd write something for ME? Here's the prompt: Tell me something good that's happening with you & your work. Tell me what you're proud of. Or something you're about to do, or did recently, or are working on. I want to hear how you're wearing your red cape. You know--the time you soared through the sticky situation or crappy challenge. Where you stopped and did the right thing for yourself, your family, your colleagues, your community. Or where you took action or made the right decision--whether or not anybody recognized it, noticed or seemed to care. I care. Here's why I want to hear from you. I think we all need more "proof of life" in today's complicated environment, especially in our workplaces. We need to know that work can work again, not only for our companies, but for our careers and lives. And based on the conversations I have each day with my current and future coaching clients, I KNOW good things are happening out there. But it's harder than ever to find those stories, to celebrate the everyday actions that add up to a better life at work. Our noisy, negative world tries to tell us that everything's broken--everything sucks. Sure, some things suck. But a lot of things are working. I'd like us to celebrate more of the small-but-mighty actions those of you here in our Insider Community are taking every single day. But you have to tell me about them first. So, you in, Reader? Tell me something good, right here, right now. Consider it your birthday present to me. 🎁 🍾 Don't overthink it (as you and your big beautiful brain may want to do.) Don't worry that it sounds like bragging (it won't, I promise you.) Know that our community here is ALWAYS a no-judgment zone, and whatever comes to mind is absolutely perfect because it's YOURS. Good is good, and I can't wait to hear yours. Thanks for being here! Always, Darcy P.S. If your firewall gets in the way of connecting to the link above, just hit REPLY and tell me your good thing instead. Using the link helps us keep all the answers in one place, but I'd rather have your answer than miss out. Hitting REPLY to any of my notes always works--and I work hard to read every single one. P.P.S. If you absofriggenlutely canNOT recall ANYthing good in your life at work, Reader, then it's time to take action. Register for one of my classes. Read my book. Or let's discuss how working with me can take you from blah to ahhhhhh. --D |
Darcy Eikenberg, PCC
So you REALLY want to be a better people leader—or want to grow more effective people leaders across your organization—but it all feels so darn complicated these days, right? Hybrid workforces. Increased demands on pay and time off. Turnover turbulence. Economic headwinds. Fill in your company's crisis du jour here. 😱 I help leaders create fresh solutions to people problems, especially when it comes to retaining and motivating their best people. In a nutshell, I help you help people stay—and grow, and thrive. And when your people grow, you do, too. **Please know you're not alone. I see you, and I can help. One way to start is to sign up for my weekly Insider strategies and stories—ideas I only share with my private clients and with you directly in email. **
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