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Best-selling author and coaching expert, Elena Aguilar, shares her wisdom about coaching, leading teams, and designing and facilitating transformational professional development.

This is My Favorite End-of-Year Activity
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This is My Favorite End-of-Year Activity

December 16, 2024

If you want to identify intentions or goals for 2025, try this: Write yourself a letter from December 31, 2025. 

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This is My Favorite End-of-Year Activity

This is My Favorite End-of-Year Activity

December 16, 2024

If you want to identify intentions or goals for 2025, try this: Write yourself a letter from December 31, 2025. 

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Three Ways to Boost Collective Resilience

Three Ways to Boost Collective Resilience

November 25, 2024

If you, or your team, are anything like most of the people I’m talking to these days, you’re carrying a lot, both personally and professionally, as the calendar year winds down and the list of to-dos builds up. ‍Here’s a recommendation if you, or your team, need a boost: seize the opportunity this holiday provides to practice gratitude. ‍

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Say, "Goodbye," to Resistance

Say, "Goodbye," to Resistance

November 18, 2024

You can instantly remove resistance with this one simple move.

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My Advice: Feel the Feeling

My Advice: Feel the Feeling

November 18, 2024

Whatever you’re feeling right now is okay. But I do have one piece of advice: feel what you’re feeling. 

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Why You Need to “Pull-Back-the-Curtain” in Your PD

Why You Need to “Pull-Back-the-Curtain” in Your PD

November 11, 2024

Presenting engaging, transformative PD isn’t rocket science, and it isn’t magic. There are fairly simple, straightforward things you can do to transform your PD sessions.

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My Top Strategy for Making the Most of Limited PD Time

My Top Strategy for Making the Most of Limited PD Time

October 28, 2024

Have big PD dreams and only a small amount of time? ‍Dread wasting time and want to ensure your PD is as efficient as it is impactful? ‍I have one strategy that will help you tackle both PD challenges.

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7 Learnings from 15 Workshops

7 Learnings from 15 Workshops

October 21, 2024

This week I am facilitating my final in-person workshop in 2024. 15 workshops over five months!‍That’s a lot. And it’s been four years since I’ve done a workshop tour. I relearned some old lessons, and also incorporated some new ones. Here are seven things I’m taking with me from these five months on the road.

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You Can Get Along with Anyone

You Can Get Along with Anyone

October 14, 2024

So many of our expectations are formed by our own culturally-constructed expectations. And those are formed based on our identity and experiences. ‍When we feel like we don’t “click” with people, we tend to engage with them in ways that further deteriorate the relationship, or simply prevent it from g

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