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The Paradox of Enough: Balancing Gratitude and Ambition in Leadership

By Melissa Eisler |

Gratitude and ambition can feel like competing forces — one calling for stillness, the other for speed. Yet the best leaders know how to balance both, leading with appreciation while staying hungry for growth. Here’s how to navigate that paradox in your own leadership practice.

New Year’s Resolutions Blueprint: 5-Part Reflection, Vision, and Goal-Setting Process

By Melissa Eisler |

December is the perfect time to set goals, intentions, and New Year’s resolutions for the upcoming year. This 5-part process will make sure your goals and focus for next year is strategic, thoughtful, proactive, and personally meaningful for you, and ensure you’ll spend 2024 working smarter and not harder.

7 Simple Ways to Demonstrate, Create, and Practice Gratitude at Work

By Melissa Eisler |

When you bring your gratitude practice to work as a leader, it can have profound ripple effects. Showing your employees that they are appreciated can improve morale, wellbeing, engagement, retention, and overall productivity. The problem is, we get caught up in the laundry lists of to-do items and gratitude often falls off our radar. To keep it top of mind, here are seven ways to create, practice, and demonstrate gratitude at work that make it easy to do and harder to forget.

Annual Self-Performance Review: Looking Back to Look Ahead

By Melissa Eisler |

As another year draws to a close, take a moment to reflect on the highs, lows, and everything in between. Follow the reflective exercise and journaling prompts in this article to look back and look ahead – to ensure you begin 2023 with a lot of intention.

Goal-Setting Exercise: Reflect and Plan for Next Year’s Success

By Melissa Eisler |

At the end of each year, I always take some time to reflect on the past year and design what I want the next year to look like. In this article, I outline the steps I take for my goal-setting exercise, and how you can use the same steps to set yourself up for a successful year ahead.

Lessons in Happiness

By Melissa Eisler |

If you could pinpoint one thing that makes you happy, what would it be? Find out what the research team at Harvard discovered after sifting through data from a 75-year study on happiness.

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MEET MELISSA

Melissa is the founder and executive coach at Wide Lens Leadership and a Partner at Evolution. As an MCC-level Certified Executive Coach with a Master's degree in organizational leadership, Melissa has coached hundreds of leaders ranging from C-suite to entrepreneur, from Fortune 500 companies to startups, and across diverse industries. Her work focuses on helping high-performing senior leaders and their teams magnify impact by building trust, collaboration, accountability, and healthy communication skills.

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