Lauren Krasny
Executive, Strategic, & Personal Coach
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Co-authored Articles (16)
What to Say when Your Boss Appreciates You
You're going about your workday when your boss stops you to say how much they appreciate your work. They give nothing but praise—what do you say? They're noticing all your hard work, and there's no shame in accepting t...
How to
Answer the Question “Who Are You”
Defining yourself is a difficult process, whether you are writing a journal entry, answering an interview question, or trying to be happier and more fulfilled in your life. However, you must define who you are for yourse...
How to
Protect Yourself from Blame at Work
Everyone makes mistakes at work. However, some people delight in blaming others for their errors. To avoid being unfairly blamed, you should protect yourself as much as possible. Begin by creating a paper trail in which ...
How to
Keep Your Personal Life Private at Work
Keeping your private life private can help you present a professional image while still enabling you to develop and maintain good working relationships with your colleagues. Allowing your private life to have too big an ...
How to Choose a Career Path
Picking a job that complements your interests and skills Whether you’re finishing up your education and are ready to venture into the real world or have been working in a certain field for a while and want to try somet...
How to
Embrace Failure
Failure is an inevitable part of life. Sometimes we learn from our mistakes, and sometimes we just don't know what went wrong. By embracing failure, you are accepting yourself and your situation as a part of life. It is ...
How to
Be a Good Team Leader
What does it mean to be a good team leader? Good leaders are motivating, decisive, and committed—but ultimately, people want leaders they can trust to have their backs. If you're looking to develop your own leadership ...
How to
Adjust to a New Job
Just like when you started at a new school when you were younger, the first few days, weeks, and months of any new job can take some adjusting. Whether it’s your first professional job or a new step along your career p...
10 Empowering Ways to Stand Up for Yourself at Work
If you're being disrespected, bullied, or mistreated at work, it's important to stand up for yourself. This can be pretty uncomfortable, though, especially if being assertive doesn't come naturally to you. We totally und...
How to
Be the Leader of a Group
Being the leader of a group takes a lot of skill as well as an understanding of the needs of the group. While some people are natural leaders, other people need to learn how to become a good leader. To become the leade...
How to
Become a Success
While there is no single secret to success, successful people do have many traits and habits in common with one another. Emulating the habits of successful people, and theorizing how to be more productive in your own li...
How to
Be a Healthy INTP
INTP, one of the 16 types in the Myers-Briggs personality classification system, stands for “introversion, intuition, thinking, and perceiving.” INTPs are known for their insatiable curiosity, endless ideas, and exce...
How to
Criticize Constructively
Giving constructive, critical feedback is an art. It’s a way to encourage positive behavior without blaming or attacking the person you’re criticizing. If you’re going to master the skills required to give construc...
How to
Be the Best You Can Be
Most people would like to be the best possible version of themselves, but everyone has a different concept of what that looks like. Although it might be hard to define, there are a few concrete steps you can take to impr...
How to
Find Out What Makes You Happy
Figuring out what makes you happy can be a long process, as you will find the same things that make you happy don't necessarily make everyone else happy. One way to learn what makes you happy is to gather data throughout...
How to
Live on Your Own Terms
Some people spend much of their lives in unnecessary anguish over others' expectations of them. Or, worse, they just let life happen to them and follow along passively. The only way you can even begin to start living lif...
