Accelus Insights:
The Leadership Narrative

Even before the newsletter, “A Curious Statistic” was published, you ladies came through.  Three new female clients committed to themselves and to developing their careers and businesses through coaching.  I said it was a small margin by which I had coached more men than women and you have now evened...

How trustworthy are you?  Do you think that people are able to trust in you easily?  Or do you find yourself questioning others’ motives and wonder why they do the same with you?  When you or someone else promises to follow-up, does it happen? It would be easy to say...

Think back to a time when you were young and someone made a promise to you that they did not keep.  Perhaps it was a parent or relative, maybe a teacher or clergy or your best friend.  How did you feel?  Disappointed, betrayed, angry? What happened next?  You let them...

This series of messages started in late February with True to You.  In that message, I shared that many of us have not yet figured out who we are and our contribution to the world.  Instead our head is full of “what other people think”.  As you explore being True...

The informational interviews were some of the most important work that I did in exploring career options in Tokyo.  It wasn’t just the volume of notes that I took, or the things that family and friends shared.  It was me, learning about me, practicing and trying on new roles, verbalizing...

Last week I wrote about informational interviews of two kinds:  (1) with professionals whom you admire and respect for their career endeavors and (2) with people close to you about what you do exceptionally well.  For a variety of reasons, people tend to dismiss the importance of each of these...