Melanie Parish, MCC

  The show’s guest in this episode is Heather Dominick. She’s the creator of businessmiracles.com. She trains Entrepreneurs and Leaders to create more impact (and more income!) with less effort – by doing things differently – since 2010. —     Listen to the podcast here Highly Sensitive Leading with Heather Dominick Hello, it is so nice to be here with you live today. It’s the last podcast before the holidays. And I’ve been thinking about leadership and my own leadership. And I had a conversation with a client. That was really interesting about the idea of radical acceptance of...... Read More

 Being a leader is lonely work, none more so than today. As an executive coach, I hear it from leaders often. They say, “I was doing a good job as an individual contributor, but now I’m not sure what I should be doing after my promotion. I feel really alone.” They find themselves in a leadership role, running a remote company, isolated from their team, without much guidance and they aren’t sure how they can “skill up.” Every leader has to find their own way of doing the work of leadership. They have had a variety of bosses in their career but they aren’t sure who to emulate, and they may feel like they aren’t providing any real value in the organization any more. Some get sucked into a spiral of trying to do more and more work, while missing the real work of leading.... Read More

Being a leader is lonely work, never more so than now.  As an executive coach, I hear it from new leaders often these days. They say, “I was doing a good job as an individual contributor, but now I’m not sure what I should be doing as I am tasked to lead through crisis. I feel really alone.” They find themselves in a leadership role, expected to lead in an unprecedented time, without much guidance and they aren’t sure how they can “skill up.” Every leader has to find their own way of doing the work of leadership. They have had a variety of bosses in their career but they aren’t sure who to emulate, and they may feel like they aren’t providing any real value in the organization anymore. Some get sucked into a spiral of trying to do more and more work while missing the real work of leading.... Read More

“Leadership can be lonely experience. This situation is that on steroids. Whatever best practices we have are designed for a world from the past, “ shares Parish. “To counterbalance the challenges this poses it’s critical that we all shift towards an embracing of the exciting and sometimes nerve wracking world of experimentation.”... Read More