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Tracy Akresh Stone
- Jan 16
- 2 min
🆘Please Delete This Toxic Email
Ready, Set, it’s Time for toxic new years fix-it emails to flood your inbox. Every guru in a multitude of fields - from health care to...
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Tracy Akresh Stone
- Jul 4, 2022
- 2 min
Succeeding during Uncertainty
I’ve been trying to reconcile the onslaught of the most recent posts I’ve seen on LinkedIn. LinkedIn is not Twitter/Facebook and many...
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Tracy Akresh Stone
- Apr 5, 2022
- 3 min
The MBA Whisperer?
When my coaching colleague called herself the "Engineer Whisperer" I thought that maybe I was an MBA whisperer. I work with a lot of...
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Tracy Akresh Stone
- Feb 14, 2022
- 3 min
The Great Resignation: Part 3 - Be the Khakis
You’ve joined the Great Resignation and with the help of your coach you have landed the new career or job of your dreams. Now what? How...
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Tracy Akresh Stone
- Jan 3, 2022
- 3 min
The Great Resignation: Part 2 - Wear the Khakis
We already know that employers are feeling the impact of The Great Resignation and managers are scrambling to retain top talent. The next...
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Tracy Akresh Stone
- Dec 7, 2021
- 2 min
The Great Resignation: Part 1 - Let them Wear Khakis
There has been so much written about the Great Resignation. What it is, why it is happening, how can you take advantage of it, and what...
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Tracy Akresh Stone
- Oct 1, 2021
- 3 min
Ropes Course as Metaphor
I am pretty over-educated when it comes to leadership and coaching. Between business school and coach training, required continuing...
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Tracy Akresh Stone
- Sep 17, 2021
- 1 min
Taking Your Own Advice
I was featured in this month's Issue of Kiplinger magazine in an article about career changers. Clients often come to me as they navigate...
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Tracy Akresh Stone
- Nov 30, 2020
- 1 min
Zoom Styles Part 2 - What's Your Zoom Style?
Want to be more effective (and happier) while working remotely? I've elaborated on Zoom Styles! Many of us have been working on zoom for...
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Tracy Akresh Stone
- Sep 6, 2020
- 3 min
Using "Zoom Styles"​ To Be More Effective (and happier) Working Remotely
II was recently asked to develop a workshop about how to be more effective working virtually. . . how to create boundaries, how to stop...
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Tracy Akresh Stone
- Jun 20, 2020
- 4 min
My Wife is Working 12 Hour Days
I had four virtual coaching meetings last week, in the midst of the Covid-19 work-at-home phenomenon. Two of my clients were women and I...
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Tracy Akresh Stone
- Apr 10, 2020
- 3 min
Freedom and Prison
Sheltering in place for the foreseeable future has caused me to think about what it would be like to be in prison. Not in prison during...
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Tracy Akresh Stone
- Mar 19, 2020
- 2 min
Procrastination in the Time of Covid-19
I've been thinking a lot about how stress manifests differently in all of us. For some of us it is hoarding basic supplies, others may...
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Tracy Akresh Stone
- Feb 10, 2020
- 3 min
January is a really stressful month.
If only January could live up to its potential. It has so much potential. And every year, with the changing of the calendar January gets...
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Tracy Akresh Stone
- Oct 30, 2019
- 4 min
Being a Middle Manager - Best or Worst of Both Worlds
I was delayed at the airport in Dallas and came across a book called "Serve Up, Coach Down." I was initially very excited to see this...
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Tracy Akresh Stone
- Aug 4, 2019
- 3 min
Where Are the Leadership Books for Men?
TRY THIS EXPERIMENT Search: Leadership Books Result: Some really amazing books on how to be a great leader. General leadership books -...
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Tracy Akresh Stone
- Jun 28, 2019
- 4 min
Don't be an Ambivert
I recently took a marketing class as part of my coaching certification continuing education. I have taken literally dozens of marketing...
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Tracy Akresh Stone
- May 26, 2019
- 5 min
Would You Cry If Your Boss Left? Leadership Lessons from Preschool
The leader inspired a shared vision of what the school was and could be and they were so much more together than they were individually.
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