Identifying Your Passions and Interests For the past few weeks, I have been giving my readers the opportunity to actively engage in completing my “Personal Leadership Development Plan“. The plan is based on my coaching model, which I have developed over the last 20 years. It’s also the basis for my course at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. It utilizes my books: Self Aware: A Guide to Success in Work and Life, and the Journal for Self Aware. I also …
Taking the First Step Last week I introduced the “Pasick Leadership Development Plan”, and offered my readers the opportunity to actively engage by completing this worksheet over the next five months. The plan is based on my coaching model, which I have developed over the last 20 years. It’s also the basis for my course at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. It utilizes my books: Self Aware: A Guide to Success in Work and Life, and the Journal for Self …
Invitation: Create Your Own Personal Leadership Plan Over the past twenty years of my coaching and teaching, I have been developing and refining the “Pasick Personal Leadership Plan”(c). I use it as the basis for both my leadership coaching practice and my courses at the University of Michigan at the Ross School of Business and the College of Engineering. As a service to my readers, over the next five months, I will be providing instructions on how to fill this form out so that …
Dr. Rob’s Monday Morning Coaching tips: Keep Rewriting Your Story Are you putting as much into your home life as your work life? If not, make adjustments. Get home before the kids are in bed. Spend more time with them on weekends. Dedicate one weekend day just to them. Pick them up at school. Family life is unpredictable. If you schedule yourself too fully, there is no real family time left. Allow for the unexpected. Look around your community. Is …
New Thoughts about Treating Hypochondria Last week, I wrote about what it meant to be a public psychologist. This week I would like to talk about a particular psychological disorder which affects many people, both in the family and in the workplace. The disorder is one that has traditionally been called “hypochondria”, but has now been reclassified as two disorders: “Somatic Symptoms Disorder” and “Illness Anxiety Disorder”. It involves a preoccupation with the belief that one has, or is in danger of …