A local community leader takes a good hard look at all the roles and responsibilities she’s juggling. She finds that the source of her overwhelm and stress often isn’t a to-do list, it’s how we hold ourselves to other people’s expectations.
How do you coax a diverse team, many of whom are volunteers, through a change in leadership, a change of season?
In this opinion column, Salter coaches a local journalist who wants to delegate responsibilities to a junior reporter. On the way to an aha moment, she explores zones of genius, diversity in the workplace, and how draft horses pull a load.
In this Opinion column Salter coaches someone at Shasta County's HHSA who been experiencing burn out as they deal with constant change, rising inflation, and lack of control over his working environment.
In this Opinion column, Salter coaches Taylor, a local education leader (not her real name), who is looking for a volunteer role to match her passions and strengths. Taylor learns about the Japanese concept of ikigai as she identifies a purpose statement for her volunteer work and names more of the meaning of her life.
In this Opinion column, Salter allows us to follow along as CalTrans Planner Christina Prosperi sorts through a wealth of professional experience to apply for a new job. Here's how Christina learned to master her narrative as she navigated the job search process.
In this Opinion column, neuroscientist Dr. Irene Salter gives us a glimpse of the inner world of an anonymous public servant who feels like her days are often wasted on a million unimportant tasks. Salter coaches her to trade in day-to-day control for greater peace of mind in a process that will shift her systems and identity to allow her to stop playing small and start playing big.
An anonymous Shasta County Health and Human Services Agency employee says she’s struggled to feel successful in her work after being unable to implement her vision for change. In response, Salter explains the difference between finite and infinite games and how that informs our view of success, long-term.
In this Opinion column, Salter provides a window into the world of an anonymous Shasta County school board member who says she's struggled to balance the sometimes-competing interests of parents, teachers, students, and the State since COVID began. In the process, Salter helps us all examine how to make values-based decisions that take all perspectives into account.
Local leadership coach, educator and PhD neuroscientist, Irene Salter, introduces a new monthly column focused on providing a window into the workings of government, at a human level.
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