 It's common to set goals at the beginning of a new year; in the corporate world, it's unavoidable. But do the goals you set serve you or discourage you? Leadership coach and author Sherry Welsh shares some keys to setting goals that are realistic, optimistic, and fearless—and will help you build the life and career you want.

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How to Make Goal Setting a Task That Serves You

 When we focus on doing more, piling activity upon activity, we often end up frustrated and burned out. Leadership coach and author Sherry Welsh illustrates how shifting out of the mode of doing more to please others to focusing on being who you genuinely want to be is a more enjoyable and effective way to lead and live.

Be Inspiring or Be Drainingthe Choice Is Yours

Becoming a better listener is about more than developing a set of listening skills; it's about becoming an open, curious person who sees others as the creative people they are. Listen as leadership coach and author Sherry Welsh shares how purposeful listening—and, by extension, communication, creativity, and innovation—involves not just what you do, but who you are being as you do it.

How Better Listening Can Make You a Creative, Innovative Partner

Communicating effectively is a two-sided equation that involves more than just talking—it requires listening. Leadership coach and author Sherry Welsh shares how you can stay in sync with colleagues, build trust, and form true, mutually beneficial partnerships by developing the art of purposeful, intuitive listening.

How to Communicate More Effectively with Purposeful Listening

Role clarity means being clear about the ways in which the work you're doing matters—at your company and in making a difference in the world. Leadership coach and author Sherry Welsh expands on a simple tool that can not only help you love the work you're doing but also help you develop a vibrant resume and enjoy exploring new opportunities.

3 Ways Role Clarity Can Make Your Life More Enjoyable

In the ever-changing world of business, it's easy to lose touch with why we joined a particular company or with what makes our work there meaningful. Leadership coach and author Sherry Welsh shares a simple tool that opens up how to continually increase your value in your current role by reconnecting with how what you do matters.

How to Make Yourself Indispensable

Unconscious competing commitments can cause us to stagnate in our progress toward our goals. One assumption that underlies many of these competing commitments is what leadership coach and author Sherry Welsh calls "impostor syndrome." Listen to learn how to shake this nagging feeling and be freed up to grow and step into new roles and responsibilities.

How to Shake the Feeling That You're an Impostor

Sometimes it seems that we're not progressing toward our intended goals, but it's hard to understand why. Sharing from her own experience, leadership coach and author Sherry Welsh explains how uncovering the unconscious commitments competing with our desired goals can bring relief and open the way to real progress.

Are Hidden Commitments Competing with Your True Goal?

Although the human ability to multitask has been thoroughly debunked, the pressures of a global, 24-hour business cycle still push us to juggle many things at once. Listen as leadership coach and author Sherry Welsh explains how practicing deliberate focus can make you a more productive, less distracted leader.

Deliberate Focus: the Antidote to the Pressure of Multitasking

The way we habitually ask questions (whether we realize it or not) may be making people defensive. Stay productive and forward-moving in your personal and professional life with this primer on using empowering and clarifying questions from leadership coach and author Sherry Welsh.

How to Use Empowering Questions to Be More Productive

In the business world, change is the norm—whether from promotions, transfers, shifts in the market, or any number of other reasons. Leadership coach and author Sherry Welsh shows how the tools she discusses in her podcasts, like the 7 levels of energy leadership, the Trust Model, and co-creating strong agreements, can help you maintain high performance as you take on a new role.

How to Maintain High Performance When Roles Change

Professional life is full of expectations, from job descriptions to performance reviews and everything in between. Leadership coach and author Sherry Welsh explains how to replace those expectations—and the assumptions that underlie them—with clear, co-created agreements.

How to Co-Create Strong Agreements in the Workplace

Complaints and frustrations in relationships, whether in personal or professional life, are a signal that we're operating based on expectations and assumptions. Learn how leadership coach and author Sherry Welsh partners with others to turn frustrations into clear, co-created agreements.

How to Eliminate Frustrations by Making Clear Agreements

 Sherry Welsh speaks with special guest, master coach Steve Chandler, about the distinction between expectations and agreements. Frustrations are often the result of operating based on assumptions and expectations of what people should be doing rather than on clearly communicated agreements. Steve Chandler introduced Sherry to this powerful concept; listen to their conversation to find out how to apply it.

A Life-Changing Distinction: Expectations versus Agreements

"Work-life balance" is a common phrase these days; companies or industries may be known for it, positively or negatively. Listen as leadership coach and author Sherry Welsh breaks down the concept of work-life balance and explains who's really in charge of it—you.

Creating the Perfect Balance in Your Life

Using scenarios from everyday professional life, leadership coach and author Sherry Welsh shares how coaching can help you slow down, gain new perspectives, and begin to see your own power to take ownership of your choices, career, and personal life.

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