Have you ever choked when you needed to perform under pressure?
We all know what it feels like: you’ve been building your skill – whether it’s in academics, in your career, in sports, in performing arts – but when the big moment arrives,
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Decision Coaching – Ursina Teuscher, PhD
Helping you make big decisions and achieve goals
Interview: How to Beat Job Search Procrastination
Interview by Mac Prichard: How to Beat Procrastination in Your Job Search, with Ursina Teuscher
Mac’s List is a Pacific Northwest job board and “career hub”, driven by the mission to make the hiring process more human.
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What Is Procrastination and How Can We Overcome It?
What counts as procrastination?
According to Wikipedia, procrastination means to “unnecessarily and voluntarily delay something, despite knowing that there will be negative consequences for doing so.”
There are productive ways of delaying tasks,
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Summer Reading List 2021: Five Books that Changed my Mind
This past year gave me a fair amount of time to read and listen to audiobooks. Here are five books I found truly impactful, in that they managed to change some of my fundamental previous assumptions and opinions.
Steven Pinker (2018).
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Decision Support Tool: Instructions for Creating a “Value Tree”
Whenever you have a really big decision to make, the best place to start thinking about it is by identifying what really matters – that is, by clarifying your goals and values. To help with that,
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Who Should Make Which Decisions in Your Team?
A practical tool and downloadable template to help determine decision authority.
For the most part, my work focuses on helping people figure out HOW to make good decisions. However, in an organization (or family! or any other group of people),
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Berry Kruijning Interviewing Ursina on Decision Making
Berry Kruijning, JD, LL.M is a leadership coach and much admired colleague of mine. She works internationally but is based here in Portland, where I initially met her. She is an expert on communication and conflict resolution.
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Summer Reading List 2020 – Book Recommendations on Leadership and Career Development
Here are a few books about decision making and leadership that I found worth reading and still very relevant, regardless of how things have changed since they were written.
The first two are not only interesting if you’re leading other people,
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Career Counseling Update: How Does Online Coaching Work?
This is an update to my earlier post, where I described my career coaching process in detail. While I have always offered and enjoyed online coaching via phone or video, I used to meet most clients in my office.
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How Does Career Decision Coaching Work?
If you’re considering getting help for a career decision, you may wonder what exactly it would look like to work with a career counselor or coach. Here’s a description of the coaching process and tools I often use when I work with clients on a career decision.
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One Door Down: Welcome to My New Office
– Or: My Office Is Now Also an Art Gallery.
I’m excited about my new office space. It’s only one door down from the previous one, and still the same size, but it did get nicer: I got moved to the center of the U-shaped Yeon building (still facing east,
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Summer Reading List 2019
Somehow it became a summer tradition of this blog: here’s my latest list of book recommendations (you can see the lists from previous years here). As usual, they all have something to do with creative decision making and goal achievement.
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The Role of the Brand on Choice Overload
I’m excited to share the publication of a new research paper from a collaboration with my colleagues Raffaella Misuraca, Francesco Ceresia, and Palmira Faraci in the journal “Mind and Society”:
Misuraca, R., Ceresia, F. Teuscher, U.,
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Should You Become an Intrapreneur?
Could you make your job better by becoming an intrapreneur? Intrapreneurship means to think and work like entrepreneur, even though you are still a part of a large organization.
For example, you might have an idea of how to improve a product,
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Beat Procrastination Habits With A Three-step Intervention
Do you want to give your productivity a boost? This three-step intervention can help you diagnose and beat some of your most persistent procrastination habits.
Step 1 – Assessment: Diagnose the Problems
Each person is different.
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Common procrastination triggers and fixes
What are some of the most common procrastination triggers? Finding out why you procrastinate will help you tackle each problem one by one.
Ask Three Questions to Refine Your Career Decisions
[Guest post by Bruce Hazen.]
Whether a career transition is one of your own choosing or one that is done to you, beware of a premature rush to job search tactics.
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How To Make Better Decisions by Asking an Open Question
Our most natural – and laziest – way to think about decisions is to see them as “either/or” questions:
“Should I do this, or that?”
In other words, we act as if we were in a game show,
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How to Make Smart Group Decisions – Video
How to Make Better Decisions in Imperfect Communities
By Ursina Teuscher, PhD
This video is a short version (13min) of a keynote talk I gave at the at the XII° Convegno Nazionale S.I.P.CO Palermo,
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Summer Reading List 2018
Another hopefully long and beautiful summer is coming up, and my intention is to spend a lot of it productively: reading. Preferably in a hammock. If you feel the same, here comes my new list of book recommendations about decision-making and goal achievement.
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