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Kate Siegel
Jan 72 min read
What's in Your Boundary Circles?
I'm preparing for an Executive Leadership training program next week and one of the topics we're discussing is boundaries -- what's...
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Kate Siegel
Dec 6, 20245 min read
Setting Powerful Intentions for a New Year
I write and teach a lot about goal setting. And goal setting is great when you have clear, tangible things you want to accomplish -...
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Kate Siegel
Nov 18, 20246 min read
Book Review: What Happy People Know
In this book, What Happy People Know , Dan Baker, the head of the Life Enhancement Program at Canyon Ranch , offers useful information...
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Kate Siegel
Oct 22, 20246 min read
What, Exactly, Causes Burnout? (Hint: It's Not Just Workload)
So many people are burnt out. They're exhausted, cynical, and not enjoying their lives. And while the amount of work people have to do...
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Kate Siegel
Oct 2, 20243 min read
How the Habit Loop Gets us in Trouble
For the last year, every day at around 1pm, I would get a small visitor in my office. "Mommy," she would say, "can you have lunch with...
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Kate Siegel
Sep 6, 20246 min read
A Guide to Emotional Pep Talks
If you're anything like two of my favorite people in the world, you may be stymied by a confident, emotional, successful person needing a...
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Kate Siegel
Aug 15, 20244 min read
Why is this change so hard?
I don't know about you, but I struggle with change and transitions. When the season changes, I miss the one that's leaving. When my...
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Kate Siegel
Jul 16, 20245 min read
Work Motivators (and Their Potential Downsides)
In his oldie-but-goodie 1995 book ‘Supermotivation’, author Dean Spitzer describes 8 desires which drive our inner motivation. While...
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Kate Siegel
Jun 27, 20243 min read
Leading Others: The What and the How
I spent a lot of last year calling my insurance company about a large sum of money they owed me. And every time I called them, the...
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Kate Siegel
Jun 10, 20243 min read
Quieting Your Inner Critic - a How-To
When was the last time something came along and fundamentally changed the way you thought about things? Give that question a minute - we...
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Kate Siegel
May 9, 20243 min read
Meet Your Other Four Saboteurs
In my last post, Meet Five of Your Accomplice Saboteurs, you were introduced to The Avoider, The Controller, and the three Hypers:...
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Kate Siegel
Apr 30, 20243 min read
Meet Five of Your Accomplice Saboteurs
In last week's post, The Judge in Your Head, I talked about the universal Saboteur that afflicts us all, the Judge. The Judge spends all...
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Kate Siegel
Apr 19, 20244 min read
The Judge in Your Head is Holding You Back
I woke up the other morning and my daughter was sick, which meant she was staying home from school. I work from home and had a four-hour...
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Kate Siegel
Apr 8, 20244 min read
Finding the Gift in Icky Situations
Earlier this year I was in the hospital for a week with a double ear infection and meningitis. (If you're offered the opportunity to do...
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Kate Siegel
Jan 22, 20245 min read
Useful feedback follows a template
Tip number eight of eight - use a predictable template when giving feedback. I've learned and taught a lot about feedback over the years,...
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Kate Siegel
Jan 16, 20245 min read
Useful feedback is prepared in advance
Tip number seven (of the eight ideas I originally shared) is to prep your feedback before you give it. Now you might be saying, "Kate,...
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Kate Siegel
Jan 5, 20242 min read
Useful Feedback Happens Before Things Escalate
Tip number six (out of the eight I originally outlined) is that to make feedback useful, it has to be delivered while there's still time...
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Kate Siegel
Dec 19, 20233 min read
Useful feedback comes regularly
Tip number five (out of the eight originally shared) is to make sure that giving feedback is not a rare occurrence. When we think about...
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Kate Siegel
Dec 11, 20233 min read
Useful feedback is not a sandwich
Imagine you're about to give some unpleasant critical feedback to someone who is definitely going to have a hard time taking it. What's...
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Kate Siegel
Dec 6, 20232 min read
Useful Feedback is Specific
Tip number three (out of the eight I originally outlined) is that to make feedback useful, it needs to be specific and not a vague or...
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