Jennifer McClure – CEO of Unbridled Talent LLC & DisruptHR LLC Jennifer McClure is an entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and high performance coach who works with leaders to leverage their influence, increase their impact, and accelerate results. As a top-rated...
How do you respond to a critical email?
We've all had them. Emails land from powerful people, criticising either us or what we're doing, what we're proposing. When those emails land, there will always be an emotional first reaction. Maybe frustration, annoyance, embarrassment, or even anger. We take them...
Reframing Retirement
A few years ago after a workshop, a lady came up to me expressing some deep concern that she was running out of time. As we started chatting, I discovered that she was very ambitious, wanted to achieve much more by way of position and responsibility in her career, but...
Beware Emotional Investment
Enthusiasm is contagious. You get pumped up. Excited. You're off and running, ideas buzzing, resourceful, productive, moving fast. This rubs off on others, and for a while, the enthusiasm feeds and reproduces. Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm. Though it can't last...
The Curse of Indecisiveness
I don't know about you, but one of the problems that I quite often find myself facing, is not being sure what to do for the best. There's so many complexities, so many different permutations, I'm sure you'll agree, it's very easy to get lost, particularly in nebulous,...
Adding Emotions to Your Influence Processes
All of the time I am consistently advocating that when you are working on the politics around your work, you need to put your emotional reactions to one side, at least while you are doing the intelligence gathering, analysis and making decisions. This is critical...
