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Susan’s Insights

Connecting the dots to optimal performance.

Intuition As A Leadership Skill

I recently gave a talk about intuition in the workplace (and in life). Is it something only a few possess? Can it be used as a leadership skill? When should we trust it and when should we not?

Are Your Beliefs Hindering Your Leadership?

Our belief system is a key to the lives we create. If you are an executive, your belief system is likely to have an impact on your leadership style – whether you are aware of it or not.

Effective Team Building Needs Talent Diversification

A consulting firm hired me to do a team building workshop to help them work more effectively together. The team was overflowing with good projects but struggled to work together.

Leveraging your strengths for better work relationships

Mary Lou is a bright, successful professional who runs a fast-paced consulting group but needed coaching to improve a challenging and frustrating work relationship with her boss.

“Do you think I am a weenie?” a client asked me at the completion of a leadership coaching session. I was surprised by the question because the client is an incredibly accomplished fellow who started and has managed a professional partnership for some thirty years.

Wisdom Within…Or How To Summon Our Innate Strengths

“You have the innate strengths, temperament and attitude for the test before you. Breathe deeply and know you have everything within you that you need at this moment and all your moments!” – Susan Spritz Myers This week Debbie Schimberg, one of my best pals sent me an...

A leader’s development improves the whole firm

Todd, the managing partner of a professional services firm, was frustrated with himself and his firm’s leaders. He had an intense passion and vision for where he saw the firm going, yet he felt like none of his partners shared his vision.

Improved emotional intelligence leads to big career advancements

A large pharmaceutical company hired me to coach Elizabeth, one of the team members of their clinical department. Elizabeth had been working on a new drug for many years and they were at the final stage of getting it FDA-approved. Elizabeth is incredibly bright and...

Going Dark: Disconnecting from Email and Phone to Improve Productivity

The other day a client mentioned that she would be “going dark” because she had to work on a big project. I was intrigued with the term, not having heard it used before. She meant that she would be heads down and not connecting with others…