Combating Limiting Beliefs
Recognize When a Limiting Belief is Occurring Nail-biting is widely known as a behavior in which many participate unconsciously. This is especially challenging if you are attempting to stop biting your nails. While you aspire to stop this habit, you often find...
Limiting Beliefs and Participation
Ego and inner critic stories create what leadership coaches commonly call “limiting beliefs.” A limiting belief is a story that you tell yourself, whether true or false, that does not help you. The characteristics of limiting beliefs Regardless of whether the...
Your Ego and Inner Critic: The Difference
The stories that your ego and inner critic tell you about yourself may help you temporarily navigate a challenging situation or maintain your self-esteem, and this is a good thing. However, the stories you tell yourself can also lead you to incorrect conclusions...
Ego and Inner Critic: Effects on Participation
Your ego and inner critic play a big role in how you participate at work. You may not realize it, but you tell yourself hundreds of stories every day. I don’t mean stories that you share with others about what happened to you when you were a toddler, in college, or...
Too Busy to Participate
What story are you telling yourself? As we've discussed, you are being asked to do more, faster, and with too few resources. You feel as though you are doing the jobs of three people. Your Outlook calendar is triple-booked. Recurring acquisitions add new...
Participating with a Purpose vs Interacting
Participating with a Purpose "Interacting with others" is comprised of ways in which you can raise your visibility “one-to-one” with others. Unlike interaction, "participating with a purpose" is focused on “one-to-many” experiences with colleagues. Participating is...
The Impact of Mindset on Participating
Participating and Overwhelm The most dramatic symptom of our newly christened PTSD (professional traumatic stress disorder) is the belief that “I can’t afford to be out of the office!” If you believe that this statement is true, “I can’t afford to be out of the...
Participate with a Purpose
Carl wants to participate - honestly he does “Oh, no,” Carl says to himself as an email from his boss slowly unfolds before his eyes. “Not another team building offsite!” Like a hungry ant craving a watermelon for lunch, Carl wonders how to digest this news. Blink....
Interacting vs. Participating
Coming next, we'll take a look at participating purposefully. You may be wondering what the difference is between interacting and participating. In the Raise Your Visibility & Value model, interacting is defined as “one-to-one” interactions with colleagues,...
The Importance of Interacting with Your Boss
In today’s ever-evolving organizations, the most important relationship you will have is with your boss. Your boss is accountable for the activities on which you focus. Organization leaders will come to your boss for feedback on your performance. Your boss is the...
