Peak Performance and Peak Satisfaction in Your Business Career
Peak Performance & Peak Satisfaction is the podcast designed for business professionals who want to excel with ease, get rewarded handsomely AND enjoy their work.
Master Coach and Executive, Cheri Gregov is sharing her intellectual property as a 25 year business veteran trained and certified in neuroscience, a Wharton MBA of Strategy, Operations, & Entrepreneurship, and formerly a Chief Operating Officer at a Fortune 500 company.
Her signature approach to proactively managing our careers is a mix of career strategy, performance optimization, leadership development, and life coaching.
This C-suite executive is sharing secrets from inside the boardroom and delivering the direct career guidance and cutting edge thought leadership you won't hear anywhere else.
Tune in for the perspective, the strategies, and practical steps to unleash success in the office that spills over into health and relationships too.
Episodes
96 episodes
Waiting Is Not a Career Strategy
Many successful professionals spend years focused on delivering results while giving very little thought to where their career is actually headed. We work hard, keep our heads down, and trust that the next opportunity will appear. Waiting is no...
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Sustaining The Job Search
Searching for your next opportunity can feel like an emotional roller coaster. Whether you're navigating a layoff, seeking advancement, or pursuing a better fit, it's easy to become discouraged when the results you want don't arrive as quickly ...
Horror Story or Victory Story: You Choose
Every career and every life includes adversity. A layoff, missed promotion, difficult boss, failed project, health challenge, or unexpected setback can leave us replaying the same painful story over and over again. What we don’t often realize i...
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The Leadership Skill Nobody Taught You
Getting your head back in the game - the business skill you didn't know you needed. As a trained life coach, I have the uncanny ability of helping you navigate the stickiest and most daunting situations in work and life so that you come out on ...
Beware Well-Meaning Mentors
In our careers, there may be several well-meaning mentors giving input on your direction and next steps. While it's very popular to suggest that mentors and sponsors are crucial to your success, I am sharing the alternative view to take caution...
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AI Is Here, Keep Calm & Innovate On
Artificial Intelligence may have your team on edge. While we might make adopting AI a mandatory objective for employees formally or informally, there is a wave of resistance expressed or unsaid. Use these practical strategies to help your team ...
Eliminating The People Manager Tax
In some companies, managing people is a requirement to advance, while in others individual contributions are paramount. In either case, I have witnessed leaders starting to view people management as a tax. One they must do in order to advance, ...
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Take Back Your Calendar
Last week, I delivered a Masterclass on how to take back your calendar. This is a must-listen if you find yourself in back-to-back meetings, toggling topics throughout the day, and busy but without much to show for it. Learn my 3 takeaways in 3...
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Adopt A Healthy Perspective On Work
Whether you see work as a necessary evil or a source of identity and pride, it's worth recalibrating your perspective for better performance and satisfaction. As an overachiever you may be used to relying on validation from work. You may see wo...
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Feeling Behind Is Slowing You Down
There can be a pervasive "rush" to our society and it's reflected in how we view our progress on our career path. We have expectations that have us hurrying both day-to-day and through the years. If you have felt behind in your career and exper...
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Success Redefined
On the verge of a quarter-life, mid-life, end-of-career crisis? You are not alone. Turns out there are natural milestones in our career that have us searching for more. I have heard clients describe it as asking "Is this all there is?" and feel...
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Increasing Your Visibility Authentically
I have many clients tell me that they are bad at self-promotion because it's not aligned with their values, but they receive feedback that it's holding back their career advancement. While this can feel like a lose / lose situation, where you c...
Radical Candor In Goal Setting Conversations
It's the season for annual goal-setting and expectations reviews. By taking the lead in these conversations, you can make it a pivotal time in both leadership of your career and leadership of your team. Here is how to introduce radi...
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Risk & Success Intolerance
There are two things we don't tolerate well as business leaders - risk and, counterintuitively, success. When it comes to risk, we would rather enjoy the reward without having to experience the associated uncertainty. We might fantasize about l...
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Neuroscience In The Boardroom
What You'll Learn From This Episode:Three stages of meeting your basic human needs to then reach self-actualizationNeuroscience-backed techniques to access your highest level thinking and overcome the most common blindspots...
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Your Dream Career: Realized
It's time for the antidote to the hustle and grind, hamster wheel approach that is glamorized and standardized within the business world. While we know logically that overworking is the fastest route to burnout and tapping out early, as well as...
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Make Powerful Decisions
How do we make decisions when we feel uncertain? There is much pressure about making the right choice and avoiding regret later. So much so that we can be frozen in indecision most of the time. In this episode, I share a simple framework for ma...
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Stay Coachable
The Olympics are taking place at the time of this podcast episode recording. We are reminded of the outstanding athletes and coaches who work together for some jaw-dropping results. If there was one attribute that we could assume from them, it ...
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Know Your Audience And Engage Them
You have likely been told and also cautioned others to "know your audience", but we aren't often given the tools to know and deeply engage our audience. There are countless personality tests used in businesses today, such that we can get lost i...
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Setting Boundaries
As overachievers we tend to default to giving every last ounce of ourselves to our work, thinking it's the only way to be successful or to hang on to our careers. Here's the issue - we can't sustain this so we burnout or quit, and our business ...
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Tame Corporate Rage
If you feel your work satisfaction and the quality of your work experience on a day-to-day basis depends on what lurks in your inbox, Slack messages, or next decision made from on high, this episode is for you. You can take back control over yo...
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Selling Yourself
If you have ever said that you are terrible at self-promotion, or simply hoped that a mystical sponsor might tap you on the shoulder with your dream career offer, it's high time you learned how to sell yourself. Whether you are seeking promotio...
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Overcome Imposter Syndrome
Imposter syndrome - that feeling of not measuring up to our colleagues and the worry that our inadequacy will be discovered and that will surely lead to dismissal. As we launch into a new calendar year, especially for those of us with bigger ro...
Compensation Outcomes As Data
It's comp season for many industries. Annual compensation decisions are communicated to individuals, including salary raises, incentive compensation, and equity awards. In this episode, I show you how to cut through the emotion to focus on the ...
Resolve Without The Doomed Resolutions
You may feel the pull towards New Year's Resolutions, but also the statistics of how they are quickly discarded may be giving you pause. In this episode, I show you how to capitalize on that innermost desire to create a better year, while avoid...
