by Nancy Jacoby | Aug 1, 2025 | Coaching, Leadership, Professional Development
Have you been given unexpected, constructive feedback? I’ve been there and here are five tips to navigate through that situation. First: Don’t react and don’t try to defend yourself. It’s very tempting to do it and it’s sometimes very hard not to do. You’ll have...
by Nancy Jacoby | Oct 22, 2024 | Coaching, Leader Development, Leadership
It’s hard to hear honest feedback about something close to us. For leaders, hearing about our team’s shortcomings can be brutal–particularly if we know there is truth to it. Watching Get Up this morning, my ears tuned in to Mike McCarthy’s...
by Nancy Jacoby | Jan 5, 2021 | Change Management, Coaching, Leadership
I spent the holidays connecting with old friends, former colleagues and family I haven’t talked with in a great deal of time. So good for my soul. Remember my friend who was disenchanted with his job? I wrote about him previously as I know his struggle is common...
by Nancy Jacoby | Nov 3, 2020 | Coaching, Leadership, Professional Development
It’s hard to get where you’re going if you aren’t clear about where you’re going. Think about your GPS or something like Google Maps. If you just enter “New York”, but you really wanted to go to the Starbucks on 1st Avenue near 34th street, just entering “New York”...
by Nancy Jacoby | Oct 21, 2020 | Coaching, Leadership, Reflections
On a beautiful sunny Sunday afternoon recently, I found myself sitting at my table, paralyzed by my to-do list. I had just returned to my apartment after spending some time on Long Island taking care of my mother after surgery. While it was nice to be away and have...
by Nancy Jacoby | Sep 22, 2020 | Coaching, Leadership, Retention
“It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.” ~ Steve Jobs Now this guy was on to something. In the conversation with my friend I wrote about last week, we were talking about some of the...
