Garfinkle Executive Coaching

1. What Great Leaders Do
   What happens when the star employee steps up the ladder to a leadership role? How does he or she handle this leap? How does this move affect them and their work? You’ll learn what great leaders do when they move into a "mover/shaker's" role directly impacting the direction of the company.
2. Increase Your Job Security by Increasing Your Visibility
   As more and more companies resort to layoffs, now is not the time to hide your light under a basket. Increasing your visibility is more important than ever! Learn some ways to get noticed and to get credit for the work you do.
3. Five Ways to Excel as a 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. Learn the five ways to excel as a leader.
4. Are You Suffering from Burnout at Work?
   According to a nationwide survey by Career.com, a whopping 77 percent of workers say they feel burnout on the job. If you're suffering from burnout at work, please read this article and learn the eight ways to prevent or treat burnout on the job.
5. Great Leaders Turn Adversity into Advantage
   All great leaders have one thing in common. They recognize that someone must take charge and make the decisions. And when times get tough, great leaders turn adversity into advantage.
6. Provide Feedback to Your Employees
   People want an honest assessment of their behavior to help them improve their work. That’s why it’s critical to provide feedback to your employees. 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.
7. 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.
8. Stay Motivated at Work
   As companies continue to announce layoffs, operating losses and even salary reductions, what can employees do to stay motivated at work? Learn the six strategies that can help you stay interested in your job.
9. 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 and develop as effective leaders.
10. Surviving Office Politics
    If you want to advance in your company, create more success, increase your responsibility and work on high profile projects, learn how to survive office politics that exist in your company and group.
11. 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.
12. 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! ? ("See MY Point of View at Work" and "Seven Steps to Clear and Effective Communication" for more articles on leadership communication.)
13. 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.
14. Get Credit For Your Work
    Getting credit for your work is not always easy. You can do great work, but if no--one knows you were responsible for the outstanding results, you won't get recognized. The key to getting credit for your accomplishments is doing an effective job at promoting yourself and letting other people know what you did.
15. 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, and your ability to advance and gain recognition for your achievements. In this article you'll learn 10 pointers for improving interactions with your boss, team members, project managers, senior management, vendors, clients, customers, direct reports and administrators.
16. 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.
17. 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."
18. Exploit More Career Changes in Lifetime with Help of an Executive Coach
    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.
19. Bring Your Work and Life Into 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.
20. 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.
21. 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.
22. The Keys to Effective Self-Promotion
    Having coached hundreds of clients, I've learned that those who advance the furthest and fastest aren't necessarily the most talented or deserving. One quality they almost always share is the ability to effectively communicate their impact and value to others in their organizations. You’ll learn the keys to effective self-promotion.
23. Feeling Equal to Someone Senior Than You
    Often, when you interact with someone who is your senior, you feel less than equal to them. You think they know more and should receive deferential treatment due to their higher level position in the company. This type of behavior surrenders too much power to the senior person, especially when it's not necessary in your relationship.
24. 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.
25. Tips on Career advancement
    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 career success. Learn more about these tips on career advancement.
26. 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.
27. Make Your Meetings More Productive
    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.
28. 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.
29. 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.
30. 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.
31. 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.
32. Give Employees What They Need
    It pays to pay attention to your people’s needs. Give employees what they need and they'll give you improved productivity, innovative ideas and top-notch results.
33. 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.
34. Speak Up At Work
    According to management researchers Kathleen Ryan and Daniel Oestreich, 70 percent of the people they studied from various industries and job titles were afraid to speak up at work for fear of repercussions. Here are 6 ways to help you speak up at work in order to enhance your work career.
35. 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.
36. Bringing New Ideas to Life
    The benefit of bringing new ideas to life 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.
37. Leadership Lessons From Geese
    It turns out that geese have a lot to teach us about teamwork and leadership.
38. 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.
39. Want to Live Longer? Take Your Vacation
    Do you take advantage of all your vacation days? More than one-third of American workers don't, according to a survey by the Families and Work Institute. And only 14 percent go away for more than two weeks at a time. Want to live longer? Take your vacation.
40. Happiness is More Important Than Money
    Does your current work satisfy you? Really? On what levels? Getting a paycheck is certainly important for survival, but happiness is more important than money over the long-term.
41. 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.
42. 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? ("9 Tips for Improving Your Communication Skills" and "Seven Steps to Clear and Effective Communication" for more articles on leadership communication.)
43. 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.
44. 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.
45. Five Guidelines for Improving Relationships With Difficult Co-Workers
    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.
46. How Managers Can Improve Their Workplaces For Employees
    Even in a disappointing economy, learn how managers can improve their workplaces for employees.
47. 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 gossip in the workplace.
48. 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.
49. 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?
50. Ask For What You Want at Work and Get It
    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...
51. 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?
52. 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.
53. Highly Engaged Workplace
    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.
54. How to Delegate Effectively
    According to a survey of 3,200 administrative professionals, "delegating meaningful tasks" is one of the top ten most desired qualities in a manager or boss. Here are six simple tips to help you learn how to delegate effectively.
55. Seven Steps to Clear and Effective Communication
    No matter who or what audience you must address, the art of communication can be a daunting task. Here are seven steps to clear and effective communication in any situation. ("See MY Point of View at Work" and "9 Tips for Improving Your Communication skills" for more articles on leadership communication.)
56. 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.
57. 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.
58. Stop Wasting Time
    Would you like to gain more than two hours of productivity each day without working longer hours? It's simple. Stop wasting your time. According to a survey by AOL and Salary.com, the average American admits to wasting more than two hours a day while at work.
59. 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.
60. Know 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.
61. Ways to Reach Your Goals Faster
    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.
62. Tips to Reduce Your Chances of Being Laid Off
    Learn the five ways to improve your chances to staying employed by constantly demonstrate your value to the company and making yourself indispensable to clients.
63. 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.
64. Five Ways to Create More Time at Work
    Creating balance in your life when you have been asked to do more work and work longer hours is very difficult to do. You will need to learn ways to make more efficient use of your time. In this article, you'll find five ways to create more time at work.
65. 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.
66. Minimize Self-Criticism
    Constant self-criticism can be demoralizing. It erodes your confidence and self-esteem. You've already got enough pressure on you without your inner-voice second-guessing and undermining your every move. If you're a victim of chronic self-criticism, I suggest you take the following steps to minimize self-criticism.
67. How to Eliminate Stress from Your Life?
    According to a survey by Workplace Options, a Raleigh, NC, consulting firm, 65 percent of workers describe their jobs as somewhat or very stressful. The way to eliminate stress from your life is to set boundaries.
68. How to Get A Promotion
    Imagine your boss, your boss's boss and other key executives in your company sitting around a table discussing YOU. They're talking about your character, your leadership qualities, the projects you manage, the people you oversee, the results you achieve and your overall performance for the past year. This panel will be making a very important decision - do we promote you or not?
69. 6 Steps for New Job Success
    The first few days on a new job can be hectic, stressful, and, at times, almost overwhelming. But if you want to get noticed and get ahead, you need to focus on the big picture and what's most important.
70. 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.
71. 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.
72. 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.
73. Get the Most from Your Life
    Fearing that "my time is running out" influences how we view our lives. We often reassess our goals and aspirations, trying to understand more of who we are and what we want to achieve.. To live in such a way that no matter how fast time goes, you will be getting the most from your life.
74. Unshakable Confidence During Shakable Times
    With so many challenges, it can feel impossible to have any confidence, belief and hope. What is most necessary, but seems the farthest from reality, is to have unshakable confidence during these shakable times.
75. Parents who've been Poor Work Models
    Just because family role models approached work in one way, you don't have to continue the trend. Set a new trend for future generations by breaking the pattern of parents who’ve been poor work models.. You can create work that comes from the core of who you are.
76. 7 Ways to Keep Employees Motivated During Layoffs
    Layoffs can be traumatic, not only for those who leave the payroll, but for the so-called "survivors" who often find themselves not only picking up the pieces, but also the additional work of their departed coworkers. You’ll learn the seven ways to keep employees motivated during layoffs
77. Thrive When Others are Being Laid Off
    According to the government’s latest figures, the nation’s unemployment rate is the highest level since 1994. Through October of 2008, the economy has shed 1.2-million jobs this year. But there are lots of ways to thrive when others are being laid off.

If you have enjoyed reading any of the articles (and tips on leadership development) above, contact Joel Garfinkle today to find out how your organization can develop effective leaders using his executive coaching services.