Portland business coach and career counselor Lea McLeod specializes in time management skills, workplace conflict resolution, and career guidance, …
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5 Ways to Cope With Workplace Drama
Workplace drama is distracting, negative, contagious, and always unproductive. Do you know how to cope with the colleague driven drama?
5 Ways to Get Instant Stress Relief
Sometimes during the workday we get so heads down and stressed out, that we start to believe what the quote above says. We start to think that everything is an emergency. Can you relate at all? I never thought about it that way until I read that quote. But it’s so true. If I’m in… Continue reading 5 Ways to Get Instant Stress Relief
5 Ways to "Go Pro" in Your First Job
Every new employee is going to have some kind of an orientation checklist. Here are some things you may not find on that list, but are essential to you Going Pro in your first job.
13 Quotes for the Rest of the Year
A few weeks ago I read an article in a prominent online business magazine touting 13 quotes for the New Year. A great concept but it missed the mark for me. For one, all of the quotes were “well worn” and it seemed like I’d heard them a thousand times. Not that they… Continue reading 13 Quotes for the Rest of the Year
Have you ever had a difficult boss?
“Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.” ~Thomas Jefferson In nearly every conversation I have with clients, the topic of “the boss” is a constant, usually as an issue. It’s not surprising if you look at what research tells us. In a… Continue reading Have you ever had a difficult boss?