Verhanika IRL: Being a “We” Consultant and Not a “You” Consultant
For funzies, I decided to re-read part of one of my grad school papers. Sometimes when I get a little overwhelmed with stuff, I like to look back on what I wrote and remind myself of how much worse it could be. Grad school was a lot. One in particular was this recap...
Theories and Tools: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
Have you heard of this book? OMG, you haven't? OMG, let me tell you all about it. This book changed my life. I am not joking. I had coffee with a buddy a few months ago. She works for a local bookstore and reads a trillion books a week. I have no idea how many she...
Verhanika IRL: A Client Who Is Me
Verhanika IRL features real problems I am facing as a coach and consultant. Some are about specific clients and processes. Others are more personal. My hope is that by giving you a window into my own personal processes, you can see that I'm a human, too! And that's...
Tools and Theories: Waterline, If You Only Have One Tool in Your Toolbox…
Tools and Theories are exactly what it sounds like: The Tools and Theories I use to inform my work. Sometimes I'll highlight my own methodologies and sometimes I'll talk about a specific book, workshop, or new theory I'm trying on. If you have a resource you think I'd...
Bad Bosses: The “I didn’t know about this” Boss
The reality is that everyone has had, will have, or currently has a Bad Boss. It is one of the easiest topics to find common ground on and can be heard all through the Happy Hour watering hole after a work day is over. Bad Bosses can show up in many different forms:...
Tools and Theories: An Annual Review that Actually Works
An Annual Review that Actually Works In the spirit of New Year’s resolutions, I want to advocate for a particular part of the process that often gets left out. We make and establish goals by often doing some internal soul-searching and deciding that what we see isn’t...
Bad Bosses: “Not Enough Details” Boss, Part Two
First Read: "Not Enough Details" Boss, Part One The first day back from Spring Break, Rose and her fellow science teachers got together for their weekly brainstorming and planning session. The whole meeting got hijacked when it was revealed that all of them had spent...
Bad Bosses: “Not Enough Details” Boss, Part One
The reality is that everyone has had, will have, or currently has a Bad Boss. It is one of the easiest topics to find common ground on and can be heard all through the Happy Hour watering hole after a work day is over. Bad Bosses can show up in many different forms:...