business success - Patti Cotton https://patticotton.com Executive Coach & Career Strategist Wed, 03 Mar 2021 01:32:12 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://patticotton.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/favicon-136x150.png business success - Patti Cotton https://patticotton.com 32 32 Putting Tough Feedback to Work for You https://patticotton.com/putting-tough-feedback-to-work-for-you/ https://patticotton.com/putting-tough-feedback-to-work-for-you/#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2021 12:00:28 +0000 https://patticotton.com/?p=9251 It stings when someone else shares how you might improve your leadership. Receiving constructive criticism can feel painful. As humans, we seek to be loved and accepted. When someone provides feedback intimating that we still have work to do in order to be amazing, it can threaten our sense of self-worth. The haunting doubt as […]

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]]> https://patticotton.com/putting-tough-feedback-to-work-for-you/feed/ 1 Identity Mindtrap #2: Black and White Thinking https://patticotton.com/identity-mindtrap-2-black-and-white-thinking/ https://patticotton.com/identity-mindtrap-2-black-and-white-thinking/#respond Wed, 04 Mar 2020 12:00:59 +0000 https://patticotton.com/?p=8963 Do you have an executive who sees everything in black and white? If you have someone on your team like this, you and your team probably experience tension as you seek to make decisions together. This personality and their inability to work with the complex can slow down process and hold the organization hostage. How […]

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