Christine Middleton is the founder of the Gokotta Group, and a business strategist who partners with leaders to develop their brands, create trusted connections with the audiences, and ignite growth. We talk about breaking through conditioning and patterns to create new and more fulfilling experiences, how to initiate change and tune in to what’s most important in your life. Inner truth, self care, resilience and the spirit of Gokotta – the act of rising early to greet the dawn and see the sun rise.

Work Can Be Different

022: Christine Middleton, Gokotta Group

021: Joanna Pitt, RAMA Yoga Institute

In today’s episode, I talk with Mary Cantwell, founder of Enriched NYC about her 18-year career as a teacher and administrator in New York City, and her decision this summer to take the entrepreneurial leap to open a literacy education company.

020: Mary Cantwell, founder of Enriched NYC

Create Boundaries to Keep Crazy Out Reflect back on the last 24 hours. What occupied your time, attention and energy?  If you were pulled away into someone else’s chaos, fear and crazy … no problem. We have some work to do. What we’re experiencing is an information and sensory overload, easily allowing distractions to take us off course. Listen in for 5 tips to take your power back.

019: Keep Crazy Out

Keep the trains running while you're out of the office. For new managers: how to best prepare before you leave for vacation or are out of the office. Tips for making the most of your time off, and giving your colleagues the heads up they need.

018: prep when you're out of the office

How to create a positive mentor relationship at work. Tips for mentors and mentees to build a win-win partnership.

017: mentoring

Discover tips to help you focus better at work, whether it's a quick task you need zero distractions to complete, or you need the motivation to complete a bigger, more complex project. Focus is your friend.

016: tips to focus at work

Acknowledge your strengths. Take the time to reflect on the great things you are contributing to your team and organization. Learn one of the most important tools to effectively communicating your personal brand.

015: acknowledge your strengths

Are you talking yourself out of success? Discover how you may be diluting your power and impact through weak conversation. Strengthen your communication and speak with impact. Be the observer, stop tearing yourself and others down and align your conversations with what you really want to create in your work and life.

014: don't talk yourself out of success

Dealing with a difficult co-worker? In this episode, learn the strategies to handle any difficult person, situation or conversation. Take a step back, gain multiple perspectives and take direct action to create a different experience.

013: difficult coworkers

Starting a new job or position as a manager? Here are the 5 tips you need to do to have an immediate impact. Set your vision, know your people, have a 90 day plan, be visible and have a strong voice, and always be sharing your team's value.

012: guidance for new managers

In this episode learn how to make your boss work for you; or rather, make the relationship with your boss work for you. The secrets of managing up. Plus tips from both ends of the spectrum: how to deal with a boss who micromanages, and how to deal with a boss who's not engaged in your day-to-day duties.

011: make your boss work for you

In this episode, discover 7 tips to make telecommuting work for you. You'll be able to master the polarities of freedom and structure, discipline and flexibility and bring out the best in both worlds for success. #telecommuting #podcastsaboutwork #timemanagement #workfromhome #tipstoworkfromhome

010: tips for telecommuting

Work sucks! Dread Mondays? Celebrate Humpday and TGIF and live for the weekends? Is this really how you want to live your life, slave Monday through Friday and living for Saturday? Only to feel down on Sunday because you have to start it all over again? What are your familiar, familial or group thinking around work? If it's not giving you energy, it's time to change it. Discover how to rewire your patterning around work and your job for a better, happier experience.

009: work sucks? time to change your tune

Kick off 2016 by setting goals and strategic direction for your team and yourself. Setting Your Team’s 2016 Objectives Schedule a conversation with your team with this agenda: 1. Celebrate 2015: take time to celebrate the big and little victories from last year. 2. Have a candid conversation: what worked well and what could’ve worked better? 3. Define 2016 goals and priority actions. What do you want to achieve, and how will you know once you achieve them? Plot out your goals, strategies and actions.Be specific. Set deadline or milestone marker. What will you do by when?Plot actions needed to get from where you are now to where you want to go.Set responsibilities. Who is doing what.Discuss needs. Does everyone have what they need to succeed? (technology, skills, equipment …. also what do you need to lock into this …mindset, attitudes)Discuss expectations. Set accountability. Secure agreement. Repeat. Personal Goals: have each team member write down 3 goals: 1) team goal: what they’ll contribute to the team, 2) professional goal: what do they personally want to achieve this year in their career, and 3) a personal goal: relationship, health, etc. Recommit to your value. Beyond milestones and action plans, be sure to discuss your team’s value to the larger organization. What do you deliver, what do you contribute and/or what do you do better than anyone else? Discuss what the team needs to let go of or do differently. Set a theme or mantra for the team to rally around. What intention will you set today to make 2016 your best year yet?

008: set 2016 team/individual goals

Turn work as you know it on its head. Executive coach and culture strategist Kristi Daniels addresses your most pressing challenges at work, and gives you the tools to create a better experience on the job.

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