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Your Gut Already Knows

It’s the season of costumes, candy, and things that go bump in the night. But let’s be honest, the scariest thing most of us face isn’t a haunted house. It’s the decision we’ve been avoiding for weeks. You know the one. The conversation you need to have. The process you need to change. The hire you need to make or the one you need to let go. The pitch you need to deliver. The boundary you need to set. And yet, you hesitate. Because what if you’re wrong? What if it backfires? What if people judge you, or worse, what if you…
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From Shame Spiral to The Human Edge™: Bouncing Back After Mistakes

From Shame Spiral to The Human Edge™: Bouncing Back After Mistakes

This past week, I managed to make a mistake that cost me time, money, and my sanity. (Let’s just say my computer and I are…
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August Blog_Colette Carlson Vaca

7 Leadership & Service Lessons from the Mediterranean

(Through the Lens of The Human Edge™)   Recently, I was fortunate enough to get off the grid with my sweetheart, Blue-eyes, for three full weeks, traveling…
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Trends

5 Key Trends Leaders and Teams Must Embrace

Has it only been a few years since the pandemic? Pretty much. In that time, we have changed the way we meet, the way we…
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female

6 Ways Leaders Can Support Their Female Workforce in 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic reshaped the modern workplaces across the world and the United States. Unfortunately, women were disproportionately impacted sparking the “She-Cession.” According to McKinsey’s…
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Virtual Meeting

7 Strategies for an Impactful Virtual Meeting

Are you guilty of multi-tasking during meetings? Unfortunately, being present during meetings, especially present-day virtual meetings, is so rare, I wish I could bottle and…
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Progress

The Power of Progress, Not Perfection

As we embrace a New Year filled with lists, promises, or one-word themes, I need to remind all of us that no matter how hard…
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Rethink

Rethink: 5 Keys to Build Resilience and Results

As 2021 comes to an end, what did you rethink or unlearn over the past couple of years in order to personally and professionally survive…
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Praise

How Smart Leaders Use Praise That Pays

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”…
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Burnout

5 Ways to Make Hybrid Work, Work with Less Burnout

Make Hybrid Work, Work with Less Burnout Are we virtual today, in-person, in-person on alternate days, every other week, masked, unmasked, sometimes masked? And, by the…
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interconnected

3 Steps to Become Interconnected in our Disconnected World

“Life is mostly froth and bubbles, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another’s trouble, Courage in your own.” — Emma Burstall, Bestselling Author Bubbles. They have…
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