Balkin Coaching Leadership Insights

How leaders can elevate workplace conversations: Effective communication is essential but often breaks down through overtalking, silence, or unproductive comments. Research shows leaders can improve conversations by encouraging relevant contributions, active listening, humility, curiosity, and intentional pauses. Modeling these habits builds psychological safety, reduces disruption, and helps teams speak up and collaborate better.

“You can bend but never break me 'Cause it only serves to make me More determined to achieve my final goal And I come back even stronger Not a novice any longer 'Cause you've deepened the conviction in my soul” I am woman by Helen Ready (click here for the song) How has covid impacted women? “We are at 1988 levels of workforce participation” Amy Gallow In countries with long periods of lock down due to Covid that there were major impacts on female workforce participation. A

“The time we give to things reflects our values. When everything is rushed, then everything has been devalued. To live gracefully is to live within flowing rhythms at a human pace . There is time to pay respect to the value of what you do, to the worth of those you care for, and to the possessions you own. Gracefulness is not possible when life is frenetic, when we are harried, or suffer from overload, time crunch, and a vast multiplicity of commitments and pressures.” Jerome

"It’s not who you are underneath; it’s what you do that defines you." Can a promotion to leadership alter one's personality for the better