Allison Rimm's Blog

 

For many people, this endless global pandemic - together with current social & political unrest, climate change, and wildfires - presents the most difficult time we’ve ever encountered. We often say one should never waste a good crisis. Our struggles present an opportunity, and often a need, to recalibrate to find joy and meaning in our lives.

We can look inward during this period to work on healing ourselves. We can’t wait for life to return to normal. Things will never be the same, but...

Did you face many challenges last year and celebrate the fact that you survived2019? Without a doubt, many of us faced personal and professional trials, some quite profound. So how might we enter 2020 with the intention to do more than endure the coming year? With focus and determination, we can turn our attention from merely surviving to actually thriving. We cannot always control events around us, but we can control our response to them. For a long time, I was among those who would often...

 

People need to be seen and understood for who we are. But as life gets more and more hectic, all of the spare time we once had for casual conversations around the water cooler or the dinner table has been engineered out of our days leaving more and more of us feeling isolated and alone.

The workdays of professionals such as consultants, doctors, and lawyers, among other disciplines are filled with appointments, but they can still feel isolated and lacking in social supports as time for mean...

  Do you have more time on your hands than you know what to do with? That question always gets a big laugh in my career strategy workshops where improving time management is a top priority for participants. Despite that desire, taking control of how they spend their time remains an elusive goal for even highly accomplished professionals. Escaping the tyranny of the to-do list once and for all requires a fresh, vision-driven, strategic, and organized approach. Managing your time effectively be...

Come on, you know you want to do something. In my coaching practice, I see highly accomplished professionals from across a variety of industries—people who are capable of getting things done—stymied when it comes to doing something for themselves. Does that sound familiar to you? Why is it that you don’t follow Nike's advice and just do it? Just today, I saw a client who exemplifies one such reason many people face. Linda is a hugely successful entrepreneur in the financial services industry...

More people this year than any other I can recall are eager to put 2016 behind them, saying it was a terrible year. Even more troubling, many are not looking forward to 2017 with the same kind of optimism about a fresh start that the clean slate of a new year usually invites. Most every American was eagerly awaiting the end of what felt like the longest, nastiest, and most polarizing presidential campaign in history. Regardless of how you hoped the election would turn out, chances are you wer...

More than any year, I amso excited to see what 2016 holds in store for my work life. This hasbeen a year dedicated to building a new cowering spacethat optimizes peace and joy along with exceptional business results.This is the vision I write about extensively andwork with my clients to achieve.It seems only fitting that I work toward fulfilling that vision for my own business. Creating our great new cowering spacehas been an experience layered with the usual challenges of renovating new spac...

Carrying the endless tasks and deliverables you’re responsible for in your head - such as picking up the dozen cupcakes you didn’t have time to make last night for your son’s swim meet bake sale as you run out of work praying for no traffic so you can get there in time to watch him attempt to break the record in the 100 meter freestyle race – can make your heart race as fast as your son in the pool. So many professionals accept this condition as an unpleasant fact of corporate life. But it’s...

“You worry too much”, my friend and business partner, Susan told me one day when I fretted that our air conditioner had just blown a fuse in our new office space. And she was right. I immediately worried that we didn’t have enough electrical power to support our new collaborative workspace, the wifi wouldn’t be adequate, and on and on. The fact that I can worry too much is not news to me. In my work as a strategy and management consultant, mapping out possible scenarios and anticipating poten...

Even years later, I still consider it my biggest professional failure: a company-wide employee training program that I’d developed and put through several rounds of vetting was shot down at the last minute.It was a painful surprise, and it changed the way I’ve sought support for new initiatives ever since.

As hospitals increasingly migrate their medical records from paper files to digital media, their employees face the challenge of making the information readily accessible to providers while...