Win At Work

Want to be more influential? Take up some space.

Many things are best done one at a time, including applying for jobs. High performance career coach Eric Woodard explains why.

Do you feel like you need to explain yourself more than might really need to? High performance career coach Eric Woodard explain how sometimes, you don't really need to explain so much (even if it feels like you do).

High performance career coach Eric Woodard explains why you should NEVER work on your birthday.

High Performance Career Coach Eric Woodard offers 7 tricks to help you do the thing you need to do when you just don't feel like doing that thing.

Sherpas respect the mountain; in your life and work, maybe you should too!

High performance executive career coach Eric Woodard explains why, “these challenging times may be a time to challenge yourself even more.”

Being the DUMBEST person in the room is often a great strategy for winning at work. High performance executive career coach and mentor Eric Woodard explains how.

In this episode executive career coach and mentor Eric Woodard discusses the resistance that we all sometimes build up in our minds. Stretching is important because it helps break up scar tissue and restrictions that keep one from moving with as much flexibility as they might. There are all sorts of devices one can get to help with physical flexibility However, mental flexibility is just as important; the devices one can use to break through mental restrictions are out there, but a little less evident. Being mindful about and knowing how to break through mental restrictions can really give you an edge towards winning at work.

Executive career coach and mentor Eric Woodard explains why you may not want to apologize for your life at work, especially in the Age of COVID!

There may have been a time when it was quaint or contrarian cool to claim ineptitude with technology, but no longer. The COVID-19 crisis offers a great opportunity for you to get GREAT at using technology for your work and your life.

The world's response to the challenge of COVID-19 represents a huge disruption to so many lives and careers. Three ideas that might serve during this time are: 1) Look Up From Your Career 2) Are You Serving the World? 3) Think About Other Stuff More

Some of the coolest movies are ones that depict characters traveling in time to meet their past or future selves, or manipulating history by changing one detail. If you could go back in time and talk to you past self, what career or life advice would you give yourself?! Of course, there is no really good way to speak to our past selves. However, there is a good chance that – along the space/time continuum – your future self would LOVE to talk to you right now. Any idea what they might want to say to you? Unless you happen to have a really awesome crystal ball handy, it’s difficult to say exactly what the future will hold for you over the next 10 years. However, nobody knows you better than you – and even though some of the details must be unknown, nobody has a better sense of what your 10-years from now self might have encountered or might want you to focus on now. Here’s the question: your 10-year older self is talking to you right now, but are you listening? We do favors for our future selves all the time. We brush our teeth, we pack a lunch, we pay our bills….what favor is your 10-year older self hoping you’ll do for them now?

The tradition of linking resolutions to set periods in the calendar goes back to ancient times. The ancient Babylonians were among the first to make promises about the upcoming year during their 12-day festival of Akitu. Julius Caesar helped kick of traditions of new year resolutions in ancient Rome when he decreed that the year would start in January, a month named after the two faced god Janus. Later, John Wesley helped start traditions involving church serves convened on New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day where congregants would think about ways to improve themselves and their communities in the coming year. December of 2019 not only marks the last month of this year, but it also marks the last month of this decade! It may be worth considering how one doesn’t even need to wait till the end of the year to make a resolution, but that resolutions can be linked to any amount of time on the calendar. One could make a new week resolution, a new month resolution, the familiar new year resolution, or event a new decade resolution. As Bill Gates noted, people often overestimate what they can get done in a year, but underestimate what they can get done in 10 years. With a new decade on the horizon, this may an opportunity to do some thinking about the work you want to do in the coming 10 years, and how you will make an impact on the world through the work you’ll be doing!

Have you been improper in your work? I sure hope so because being proper kind of sucks. Women, minorities, people of certain religions, gay people, people of certain gender identities, laws regulating things like worker safety, the presence of child laborers, people being paid what they were promised were, at one time were (and in some places still are) considered improper for the workplace. But what is really improper are rules or situations in the workplace that prevent people from expressing who they are. So often, claims about improperness are just excuses to express people being their authentic selves. Ironically, sometimes, claims about improperness are the most improper things themselves. If and when you hear claims about something being “proper,” be a champion and consider who is really being improper, the one being accused or the one making the claim. It could be either, but if it’s the later, speak up and stand up for what you think is right.