Garfinkle | Executive Coaching

Move Up Toward Leadership
You must shine or you aren't fulfilling your role as a leader. So in order to help you take your first bold step, I have assembled ten tips to help you identify what separates a great leader from his followers.
From Boss to Leader
Why do so many fast-track executives perish while others flourish? The American Management Association conducted in-depth interviews with 41 executives and uncovered seven common traits that most often lead leaders to failure.
Become a Change Leader
All great leaders have one thing in common. They recognize that someone must take charge and make the decisions. Strategy is planned and a course of action is begun to achieve change because of that person. It's essential to your future to become your own change leader.
Providing Quality Feedback
Employees want feedback. They want an honest assessment of their behavior to help them improve their work. They know that if they listen to and take action on clear and constructive feedback, their overall performance will improve. And so will their job satisfaction.
10 Ways to Become a Powerful Leader at Work
Ever feel circumstances at work are preventing you from being the leader you once aspired to become? Read how one of Joel's clients overcame this problem by following ten simple steps.
Power of an Engaged Workforce
Engaged workers can make a difference to your company's bottom line. Yet, a recent study found that only 14 percent of workers are highly engaged in their jobs. Learn the best ways to get your employees to "buy into" their work.
Keep Your Employees Happy
While keeping employees happy may sometimes seem like mission impossible, following a few guidelines will help most of your people feel good about the time they spend at work. Learn four simple ways you can make a difference.
9 Tips for Improving Your Communication Skills
According to a survey of employers, communication skills are the most important quality sought in job candidates. So whether you're looking to get ahead in the job market - or within your company - these nine tips will make you stand out from the crowd!
Ten Ways to Keep Your Star Employees
Your most important asset is your personnel, especially those who shine in their positions. If they're not happy, they'll eventually find a position that better fulfills their needs. To keep your star employees right where they belong -- with your company -- follow these 10 tips.
Make Your Ideas Count
Why are new ideas or initiatives an important area to focus on in your work? They are important because you can gain increased visibility and recognition when the idea (which you are in charge of) is chosen as the new project for your team. The key benefit of bringing new ideas into a company is that your visibility can be tied to the project, increasing your exposure and thus your advancement up the corporate ladder. All of this directly affects your career and the overall productivity and efficiency of the company.
Building Positive Relationships at Work
Building positive workplace relationships is vital for career success. Relationships can positively or negatively affect your satisfaction with the job, your ability to advance and gain recognition for your achievements. In this article you'll learn 10 tips to help improve the interactions with your boss, team members, project managers, senior management, vendors, clients, customers, direct reports and administrators.
Make Time for Important Long-Term Projects
Most of us focus our time and energy on whatever short-term tasks land on our plate each week. That's fine as long as we also commit time and energy to the important long-term projects that will get us where we eventually want to be.
Fourteen Ways to Increase Productivity
By taking a little time to plan and prepare, you can find extra hours in your day to complete the work you want to do and still have fun. Victor Hugo says, "He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life."
Coaching You Toward Success
Coaches have the expertise, techniques, and tools to assist you in achieving what you most want in half the time. They provide direct, honest, and objective feedback and help you develop the skills and direction you need to move beyond limitations, resistance, and doubt. With the assistance of a coach, you'll be better prepared for current challenges, increased change, and future roles.
Four Attitudes that Promote Work/Life Balance
Whether you've been promoted or are just trying to cope with the relentless pressures of the modern work environment, learning new ways to handle it all will help you achieve that important balance. The place to start is with yourself and the way you think about the demands on you. Below are four ideas for bringing your work and life into balance by changing your attitudes about what you can, and should, accomplish at work.
Four Ways to Say No at Work
Here are four ways to say no and provide feedback and push back at work without appearing uncooperative. After applying these tips, you'll begin to notice a change in your workload, a decrease in the pressure you feel, and an increase in your overall productivity.
What's The Most Effective Way To Get Ahead?
That question was asked of a number of managers, consultants, training specialists and business owners. Find out their number one response... and ways you can improve your effectiveness in this critical area.
Manage Time and Get Organized
Fast Company Magazine says that employees waste 6 weeks per year searching for lost paperwork and spend up to 35% of their time looking for the information they need to do their jobs. And when you're not trying to track down that lost file or report, chances are someone is interrupting you. Read this article to learn simple techniques and strategies you can use to better manage your time and reduce the stress at work.
Four Tips to Enhance Your Job Satisfaction and Chances for Advancement
Learn how speaking in financial terms, reflecting well on others, growing the job you already have and seeking opportunities where others aren't looking can make a difference in your job satisfaction and career success.
Bring New Vigor to Your Job
When you begin to lose joy in your work and find the day-to-day grind not fun anymore, you might have a tendency to want to quit at that moment. This isn't the most practical solution. When you lose excitement for your work, how can you bring new vigor to your relationship with your job? Here are some suggestions to help you.
Casualties of Work
An article appearing in the April 23, 2001, edition of Business Week Magazine was entitled, "Has The Job Engine Blown A Gasket?: the cruising altitude of the U.S. economy has depended much on the lift from resilient job markets. But after the March employment report, you had better tighten your seat belt. The ride ahead may get rougher."
Seven Ways to Make Your Meetings More Productive... and Fun!
In study after study, workers cite meetings as one of the most unproductive and frustrating parts of their jobs. Wasting almost $40-billion each year, it's no wonder that Industry Week Magazine called meetings "The Great White Collar Crime." But you don't have to be a victim. In this article, you'll learn the seven simple steps you can take to make meetings more productive and, heaven forbid, even fun.
Coping with Critical Coworkers
Learn four common sense tips to sustain your sanity when dealing with overly-critical co-workers, clients, supervisors, or any other "nay-sayer" in your life, based on Joel's workbook Love Your Work.
7 Steps to Career Success
These seven tips offer a good place to start in achieving the career success you've always wanted. Used separately, each can give your career a boost, but if you want to really accelerate your forward momentum, address all seven.
How to Keep your Top Talent
Money is a material representation of any employee's worth to his company. It may motivate employees to produce good work, get along with their superiors and handle the many frustrations and downsides of the average work day. But there are other motivators and intangible factors from which your employees can derive fulfillment and increased satisfaction.
Difficulty Asserting Yourself at Work
We're taught early in life to be polite and to not be arrogant or conceited. However, having a healthy view of your strengths and being able to convey them to your superiors is neither conceited nor arrogant.
Give Employees What They Want
It pays to pay attention to your employees' needs. Give them what they need and they'll give you improved productivity, innovative ideas, and top-notch results.
10 Ways to Increase Visibility in Meetings
The benefits of becoming more visible in meetings include increasing your knowledge capital, developing more (and deeper) relationships, and enhancing your visibility with colleagues and executives in the company.
Increased Effectiveness on Projects
Completing projects more effeciently and effectively is one of the fastest ways to achieve success in your work and personal life. These 10 tips for maximum effectiveness will help you get the important projects done quickly.
Lessons from Geese
It turns out that geese have a lot to teach us about life.
Love Your Current Job!
It's very easy in today's workplace to get into patterns of behavior. Step back and look at how you may be held back and restricted by this routine. Expand your field of vision and see the possibilities in your future. Look at your job with the eyes of an outsider and consider how he/she would find positives in your current work.
Money vs. Happiness
Does your current work satisfy you? Really? On what levels? Money is certainly important for survival, but satisfaction is equally important for long-term happiness.
Reduce Your Workload
Here are five strategies for working with others in your organization to reduce your workload so that you can get back to being effective and productive.
Role Models
Just because family role models approached work in one way, you don't have to continue the trend. Set a new trend, become a role model for future generations, and break the pattern of negative beliefs. You can create work that comes from the core of who you are.
See MY Point of View at Work
We often have "tunnel vision" and only see our side of a situation. Other people involved in the situation are busy being focused on their side. Communication lapses, frustration and anger increase, and situations turn into major problems. How can this be avoided? How can you get your employer or employee to see your point of view?
Seven Ways Toward Efficient Use of Your Time
What could you accomplish if you used your time in the most effective way possible? Try these seven methods and find out.
Six Ways to Enjoy Work More
The first few months or even years at a job, we tend to enjoy everything about it. But something sometimes happens as time goes by. We begin to view work as drudgery instead of a joyful experience. We can recapture the enjoyment of the early months.
The Best Way to Get Even at Work
Especially in today's "dog eat dog" job market, positive, uplifting, and encouraging words have been irresponsibly exchanged for negative, piercing, and destructive ones, making my five guidelines for improving relationships with critical co-workers and other unflattering individuals even more timely.
Tips and Payoffs from Employee Management Experts
According to a recent article appearing in the Chicago SunTimes, even in a lackluster economy, there are numerous inexpensive ways managers can improve their workplaces for employees.
Top 10 Ways to Handle Gossip in the Workplace
As you work side by side with your co-workers and colleagues day after day, you're bound to be the recipient -- or the target -- of office gossip. Follow these 10 guidelines to reduce the impact of workplace gossip.
Top 10 Ways to Set Boundaries
Settng boundaries is a skill every successful executive must master These 10 tips will help you sharpen this skill and pave the way for success.
Workaholism
People are working more hours than ever. They make a good income and are able to afford more material possessions but at the expense of their happiness and satisfaction. What can be done?
Work with Your Company
While it is true that many companies have a fairly strict set of rules and regulations, there are always exceptions. Don't just assume up front that your company isn't willing to work with you on a mutually satisfactory resolution. Here's what to do...
Balance Work and Play
Our life and work are an integral whole. You are more than just someone who works. You have many roles in your life: you're a friend, family member, community member, significant other, parent, and more. You have mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical needs. How well are you balancing your roles and your needs?
Work Hard No More
In a recent survey of 180,000 American workers, over 80% indicated an intense dislike for their jobs. This is truly a sad reflection on an activity that absorbs such a major portion of our lives. Maybe it's time for a conscious reassessment of our philosophy towards work.
Rules of Workplace Engagement
Whether you're a newly established entrepreneur or president of a Fortunate 500, here are three "creative rules of engagement" that virtually any employer can apply to make the workplace an incubator for greater employee fulfillment, increased satisfaction, and unprecedented productivity.
Do We Have an Understanding?
No matter who or what audience you must address, the art of communication can be a daunting task. Here are seven tips that can lead to clear and effective communication in any situation.
Avoid Time Traps
Time traps are the pitfalls we can fall into if we're not paying attention. They seem to lay in wait for us as we innocently go about our day and will rob you of time, energy, and focus if you let them. The only way to avoid time traps is to be aware that they exist and stay alert, ready to block or divert them.
Tips on Slowing Down, Appreciating Colleagues and Being Grateful
In our continual rush to get things done, we sometimes overlook the most important aspect of our lives, including our relationships with others. Follow these steps to reap the benefits of a richer and more rewarding life.
4 Ways to Get Ahead In Your Company
Want to get noticed and get ahead in your company? Here are four, sure-fire ways to break through the clutter and stand out from the crowd.
5 Steps to Enhance Your Career
It's been said that your house or your 401K is the biggest investment you'll make in your lifetime. That's not true. Your career, by far, offers the potential for greater rewards monetarily, as well as in personal fulfillment.
Learn (and Live) Your Company's Strategy.
Employees who know their companies' strategies have a powerful advantage over those who don't. Yet, according to USA Today, an astonishing 95 percent of companies don't share their strategies with their work force. Discover tangible ways you can learn and demonstrate your commitment to your company's key strategies.
4 Pathways to Success and Fulfillment
There are many pathways to success and happiness and the "right" path may be different for each person. There are, however, some actions all of us can take along the way that will boost our chances of getting where we most want to go.
Six Tips for Building Your Own Brand
Increasing your visibility is one of the best ways to be recognized, gain influence and get ahead in workplace. One way to stand above the crowd is to create your own brand.
Interview with Executive Coach Marshall Goldsmith
One of the most successful executive coaches in the country talks about how you can achieve positive, long-term changes in your behavior.
Seven Ways to Conduct Productive Meetings
In study after study, workers cite meetings as one of the most unproductive and frustrating parts of their jobs. But you don't have to be a victim. Follow these seven simple steps and you’ll make meetings more productive and, heaven forbid, even fun.
How to Ask for a Pay Raise
According to a recent survey, 65 percent of workers said they were going to look for a new job, largely because they felt they were being underpaid. Admittedly, asking for a raise isn’t easy. But if you follow these tips, your chances for success will be greatly enhanced.
Ten Ways to Provide Quality Feedback
Most managers feel uncomfortable delivering feedback, especially when it involves a problem or concern. But providing feedback that gets results isn’t as difficult or painful as you think.
Just Say No... to Meetings
The meetings will always be there, but your time will not. So how to we deal with a meeting-dominated work environment? Here are some tips.

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