The Antidote for Civilization

Reading is a private vacation into the world of possibility. You can take it anytime on any subject for however long you choose to do so. In my view, it's an immediate transportation into your own future potential.

Resources | Recommend, Your Best Self, Motivation & InspirationCecilia GormanNovember 2, 2015Personal Growth, CareerComment

Can I get a little life meaning over here?

Commit that each and every day you'll make an effort to live it out loud. Intentionally. Wholeheartedly. Exceptionally. Brilliantly. Because that 50 train is coming fast and I don't know about you but I want to be on it in the bar car celebrating a life well lived.

Saying What Needs to Be Said

How many times have you been sitting in a meeting and thinking to yourself, "This Sucks!"? A million times, a million and ten perhaps. You're sitting and thinking you'd rather poke your eyes out with hot sticks of fire than listen to one more status meeting. But you don't say any of this out loud. Why not? Speak up! Be the catalyst to better-ness!

Growing your CareerCecilia GormanOctober 2, 2015Personal Growth, Leadership, advice, Career, CommunicationComment

Positivity Is Contagious

My ask is for each of you to commit, from this day forward, to start each day from a place of positivity. Be the person inspiring others. Be the one infecting the rest of us with possibility. I guarantee you, it’s hard. Being a downer, a doubter is much easier.

Motivation & InspirationCecilia GormanJune 2, 2015Managers, Positivity, Career, Leadership, Tiny Bit BetterComment

On Being Outstanding

Outstanding leaders know the outcome of the whole depends on the engagement of the individuals. Get out there and show you care. Leave your office and make the rounds.

The State of You

While an autopilot, I might be bringing the disposition of my day into the room with me. Maybe my day was stressful. Perhaps I listened to a heated voicemail on the way over. I might be tense, stressed or even just blandly neutral.

Your Best SelfCecilia GormanFebruary 18, 2015Advice, Career, Personal GrowthComment

It's 3:15 am. What are you doing?

Maybe the reason the rest of us aren't living that same fulfilled life is because success to that degree gets up very, very early in the morning and we are still sleeping.

Motivation & InspirationCecilia GormanJanuary 19, 2015Goals, Personal Growth, Dreams, SuccessComment

One small, simple thing. Only better.

big goals tend to stifle us. The appear so big and so far away that we use that as an excuse not to work toward achieving them at all.

Your Best SelfCecilia GormanJanuary 13, 2015Advice, Tiny Bit Better, Personal Growth, Career, ManagersComment

On Being a Better Leader...

Kicking off the New Year with some thoughts on becoming a better leader.

Being a Leader, Navigating ManagementCecilia GormanJanuary 2, 2015Leadership, Career, Success, Managers, Engagement, Team Building, 2021Comment

Leaders Driving Culture

Culture is the collective sum of attitudes, skills sets, passions, motivations all combined inside one company. As a leader, your role in driving that culture is critical.

Being a Leader, Navigating ManagementCecilia GormanNovember 14, 2014Culture, Leadership, Managers, Ad Agency, Career, EngagementComment

Put on a G*d Damn Costume!

For some strange reason, as people rise up the ladder they seem to exclude themselves from having to participate in company events. It's a contagious disease that slowly rots the core a culture at work.

Do you have a Dog?

Make sure you are staying in touch with your team as human beings. Simple questions like are you doing ok? How's soccer going for your daughter? How was your trip to Joshua Tree?

Navigating ManagementCecilia GormanOctober 17, 2014Team Building, Manager, Leadership, Advice, Career, Communication, 2021Comment

That Sucky Time of Year

Let's get this clear: Givers of performance reviews hate giving them. Receivers of performance reviews hate getting them. Good bad time all around.

Worst Opening Line Ever

talking money in a Performance Review is albeit important, just not using your imminent need as the REASON you should get a raise.

Growing your Career, Navigating ManagementCecilia GormanJuly 1, 2014Performance, Feedback, Success, Advice, Communication, CareerComment

Who leads the leaders?

There cannot be a time in your career when one day you have (and somewhat need) a boss then the very next you don't. Is it that you are somehow led as much as you are going to be led then from there on out it is up to you?

NOT in your Work Desk

take a moment right now to look around your desk area, open your file cabinets, peek in your overheads and see if there is anything that you don't want the general public to have their eyes on. Take that home.

Growing your Career, Navigating ManagementCecilia GormanFebruary 27, 2014Advice, Career, SuccessComment

Let's Talk About the 4-page Resume

Reading 4 pages of your life in this scenario is just not possible. You need to sell it in the first page. More likely in the first half of the first page. After page 1, recruiter attention span diminishes greatly.

Growing your CareerCecilia GormanFebruary 20, 2014Advice, Recruiting, Career, SuccessComment

What's your Nobel Prize?

The real goal is to purposefully craft a legacy while you are still living. It's not about leaving a legacy it's about living one, right here, right now.