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Barbara Palmer
Oct 31, 20231 min read
It’s Not Scary
It’s Not Scary. Halloween? Scary Ghosts? Scary The Dark? Scary Mammogram? NOT SCARY As has been my tradition for the past 16 years, I...
Barbara Palmer
Oct 25, 20233 min read
Holidays are Coming
Holidays are Coming. I’m not an alarmist, but we are a few short weeks away from the start to the holiday season (read: hectic,...
Barbara Palmer
Sep 28, 20233 min read
The Months are Short
The Days are Long, the Months are Short. You may have heard this saying slightly different in terms of child rearing: comparing days to...
Barbara Palmer
Sep 28, 20232 min read
Kindness to Ourselves
Kindness to Ourselves. What would you say to a colleague if they were struggling, had a conflict or needed to shift priorities? Probably...
Barbara Palmer
Aug 24, 20232 min read
How You Leave
How You Leave is How You are Remembered. I receive a lot of calls from people leaving their jobs. Sometimes by choice or mutual...
Barbara Palmer
Aug 1, 20232 min read
Stop the Spin
Stop the spin. I had an almost perfect coaching session last week. It was a high potential, junior manager who was struggling with her...
Barbara Palmer
Jul 12, 20232 min read
Nomad, Not Vacation.
Nomad, Not Vacation. I’ve had people ask how my vacation is going and I want to clarify that I am Open for Business! In fact, since...
Barbara Palmer
Jun 13, 20232 min read
Leaders, Parents & the 101
Leaders, Parents & the 101. In my Next Level Leadership training, I ask the question: is leadership how you lead or how your employees...
Barbara Palmer
Jun 1, 20233 min read
Do ALL the Things.
Do ALL the Things. Arriving at the first stop on my nomad adventure, there was a whiteboard listing a bunch of activities. Entitled...
Barbara Palmer
May 10, 20232 min read
Progress Over Perfection
Progress Over Perfection. It’s been a while. I was afraid that what I was thinking and writing wasn’t my best; wasn’t perfect. Then I...
Barbara Palmer
Mar 22, 20233 min read
Community.
Community. I love what it means to be a part of a community: being in community, being a part of something bigger than myself, having an...
Barbara Palmer
Jan 30, 20232 min read
Funny. Now Toss it.
Funny. Now toss it. I am in the process of purging 56 years of ‘stuff’. Easy with furniture, clothes and household goods. Not so easy...
Barbara Palmer
Jan 4, 20233 min read
Nomad
Nomad. In less than 90 days, I am embarking on a new adventure. A scary, exciting, at times overwhelming, opportunity to ‘sample’ the...
Barbara Palmer
Dec 5, 20222 min read
Impact
Impact. I upset a client last week. That was not my intent, but my intent doesn’t matter. The impact of my words was the result of my...
Barbara Palmer
Oct 14, 20223 min read
Just
Just. ‘Just’ has always been a trigger word for me. Trivializing, judgmental, showing a lack of respect. Wow! Those are some big...
Barbara Palmer
Sep 28, 20222 min read
Healthy Leadership
Health. I woke up in the middle of the night (not unusual) and read Katie Couric’s first-hand account of her breast cancer diagnosis. ...
Barbara Palmer
Sep 20, 20222 min read
Quiet Quitting
Quiet Quitting? A lot has been written lately about a trend they are calling ‘quiet quitting’. The theory is that employees are just...
Barbara Palmer
Sep 8, 20224 min read
Work Friends
Work Friends. I categorize most of my friends by the chapter of my life in which we met or came into each other’s orbits: childhood,...
Barbara Palmer
Aug 9, 20222 min read
AND
And. As we begin the transition out of summer, it is the perfect time to talk about how we can be in two states simultaneously: sadness...
Barbara Palmer
Apr 28, 20222 min read
Smile File
Smile File. A while back, I wrote about a Win Bucket: a way to capture positive feedback and your wins both for your own satisfaction...
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