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The plague of the Uncoachable Employee

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Imagine for a second that you’re one promotion away from your dream job; you’re so close you can almost taste it.  Your company selects you as a candidate for career coaching to round out some blind spots and help you reach the next level. Imagine then, after a few meetings with this coach, you are deemed “uncoachable”, and those precious dreams of yours go up in smoke. Whose fault is it when this happens? The “uncoachable” employee or the company that didn’t help coach him or her until now? A little bit of both I think, but the biggest issue is that both parties waited too long to figure it out. THIS article from Harvard Business Review, “4 Signs an Executive Isn’t Ready for Coaching” discusses several of these scenarios.  However, it doesn’t dive into how to help these employees improve, it simply warns companies of the red flags to watch out for and avoid spending coaching dollars on these people. So the people who need coaching the most, get left out in the col...
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Tips & Tricks to make Business School GREAT

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Having just spent 20 months at Columbia Business School - I wanted to share my tips and tricks for getting the most out of an MBA program.   I was known in my class as the person who always found the most interesting events, speakers, classes, books, advisers, and constantly sent classmates interesting job opportunities.   I squeezed every last drop out of my time at Business School and I've compiled my top pieces of advice so you can do the same.   One general piece of advice is to try to hold onto that feeling of awe and inspiration you had when you first walk on campus; it was a real pinch me moment.   It's strange how quickly being at an ivy league university becomes normal background noise.  I found reminding myself of how incredible it was to be there helped me through some of the more stressful times in the program.   And apparently, practicing gratitude leads to more happiness, so be thankful! Second piece of overall advice - read the book...
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Chronicle of NYC Conference Scene

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There is something special about sitting in a room with 600 women in the heart of Manhattan.   In the audience of Mogul X in NYC this weekend, I slowly started to realize that I felt different than I normally do.   Normally I'm in a completely male-dominated room, measuring my words carefully, taking care to appear to belong. I'm not sure if I've really ever noticed it before - perhaps this inkling of self-awareness is the first signs of my short-lived attempt at daily meditation finally shining through (more on this in a later post). In any event, I recognized it, so I've decided to explore it a bit here. Lately, I've been doing a lot of soul searching. My decision to quit my job and attend Columbia Business School at 31 was a little daring, and completing my program last week without a decided career course strikes many as downright crazy, or lazy.   But, having worked 10 years already, I've chosen to take the time and evaluate what my career h...
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