You (According to Them)

Uncovering blind spots that impact your reputation and your career

Sara Canaday

Six Strategies for Leading in a Return-to-Work World

As a leader, you may be feeling the full weight of the return-to-work plans and process. What steps can you take to increase your odds of success in this new era?

5 Strategies to Succeed in a Work-From-Home World

Are you struggling to stand out and be influential now that your “presence” is represented by a 2” square on a Zoom call?

Peace Out 2020

We have no idea what’s ahead but, in many ways, we’re more prepared to be flexible and keep pace with the ever-changing demands of life and leadership. Thanks, 2020 (okay, not really).

What Today's Leaders Most Want From Their Virtual Training

Leadership training and professional development look very different today than they did in February. Here are a few things I’ve found that leaders most want and need right now.

Tips for Leading When Team Members Are Stressed

Leaders are craving advice on how to manage their teams under these wild circumstances. Here's how to empathize, provide support, and make sure goals are still being met.

Leadership During a Crisis

Leadership is challenging enough without throwing a global health emergency into the mix. But here we are.

How to Model Care and Creativity as a Leader

If we let clocks and #crisis dictate all of our meetings, we could undermine our own efforts to connect and collaborate meaningfully and to influence innovative thinking.

Manage Your Worry, Not Your Work

Are you stuck in a loop of trying to be always-on, always-available, and always-informed? Figure out exactly what triggers the stress and discover how to stop the cycle.

When Good Habits Go Bad

It can be uncomfortable to re-examine our habits and narrow our focus. But don’t let yourself become intimidated by the process of change.

Leading with Purpose

To drive success in today's push-harder environment, leaders need to have a purpose to focus their energies, inspire actions, and remain resilient.

The Leadership Metamorphosis

Leadership is experiencing a metamorphosis today. Conventional leadership wisdom is being tested (and sometimes even crushed) in our chaotic, always-on, and hyper-connected world.

Shifting From Manager to Leader

Making the transition from manager to leader involves deliberate changes. Make the shift and be poised to take advantage of the results—for you and your organization.

Leadership Mindshift

Success today requires a leadership mind shift. Instead of relying on traditional wisdom, leaders need to think about their roles from a totally different perspective.

What Yoga Can Teach Us About Leadership

A yoga studio (or our yoga space at home) might seem far removed from our offices, but there are some key leadership lessons we can carry over.

Five Misconceptions Every Modern Leader Should Know

We can all look back on the choices we made as leaders and think of things we'd do differently. I could go back, here are a few leadership lessons I’d share with “past Sara”.

Do Less, Lead Better (Really!)

As a leader, you might constantly push yourself to do more to keep up with ever-changing work environments. But the most powerful approach to leadership today isn't about doing.

Common Career Traps of High Performers

If you are a top performer (or a leader who manages one), it’s important to know the common career traps that may be draining confidence and diminishing a sense of achievement.

Cognitive Diversity

What does the concept of cognitive diversity mean? When leaders surround themselves with people who "constantly validate and reflect their own beliefs," it stifles fresh thinking.

Feedback Is a Gift, Give it!

While I’m a huge proponent of self-awareness and proactively seeking feedback, I also believe it is incumbent on us as leaders to tell it like it is (candidly and with compassion). Developing those under your guidance is one of the primary goals of a leader, mentor, or coach.

Emotional Intelligence: Cult or Competitive Advantage?

The reason so many people believe in the validity of EI has nothing to do with being members of a cult, and everything to do with observation in the real world. Sure, data can sometimes overturn the apple cart of “common sense,” but in this case, the other methods of EI measurement are absolutely correlated with greater success both personally and professionally.

How Do Others See and Experience You?

Credentials and years of experience aside, our real career success is driven by how we work with and through other people – how we lead them, collaborate with them, interact with them, and react to them. When we manage that impact and ensure that others experience us in the way we intend, we can accelerate the pace of our professional trajectories.

Go Big or Go Home: What Is Your Approach?

As I’ve worked to grow my own business over the years, I’ve had many opportunities to consider both sides of the equation. I have made some Go Big decisions that worked out great and a few that left me with anxiety and regrets. I’ve also had some Go Home decisions that kept me wondering what opportunities I potentially lost.

Ultra-connected World Leaving You Disconnected?

Increased connections aren't the same thing as productive connections. In fact, the decline in strong, effective business relationships is now taking a measurable toll: more careers seem stalled, more teams are struggling to perform, and more companies are suffering from unproductive workplace behavior. Ironically, all of those digital connections are creating a serious pe

What Keeps You From Giving Candid Feedback?

I believe it is incumbent on us as leaders and coaches to tell it like it is. Developing those under your guidance is one of the primary goals of a leader. This means much more than sending folks to class, handing them the latest business book, or giving them new assignments. The practice of revealing people's “blind spots” is probably the biggest gift a leader can give.

Don't Sell Yourself Short With a Resume

If you doubt the importance of selling your value beyond the resume, just look at the way many Fortune 500 companies are now evaluating employees to determine their readiness for the next-level.

The True Value of Workplace Feedback

Countless studies have documented the significant career benefits of collecting feedback about our business performance and behavior. So why do so many well-intentioned professionals fail to take full advantage of this potential competitive edge and why don't leaders give their employees access to candid insights about their strengths and weaknesses?

The Limitiations Of Living In An Ultra-Connected World

Opting out of the Internet or giving up our mobile phones to restore the integrity of our business relationships is not an option. What we need, is a more proactive strategy to maintain and restore our workplace connections so that we can benefit from the feedback that comes with them.

Driving Our Careers

While companies fully recognize that reaching their goals and being successful is dependent on quality and "ready" leaders, the vast majority of them struggle to make that a priority. So what does this trend mean for professionals at every level who aspire to increase their leadership skills and take on more responsibility?

Your New Competitive Advantage

Today, the most successful leaders don’t necessarily have prestigious degrees and professional certifications. Instead, they tend to have real-world experience or “street smarts.” They have self-awareness and excel under ever-changing conditions.

The High Price of Self-Awareness

Having the spine and self-confidence to accept and even seek out feedback is hard. But your determination to be a better performer, leader or coach will far outweigh the short-term discomfort associated with confronting these hurdles.

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