Griffin Method Articles
Career Strategy, Leadership & Reinvention
Expert insights, actionable tools, and mindset shifts help you lead with clarity, pivot confidently, and intentionally grow your career.
5 Questions to Rethink Your Next Chapter
As we get close to year end, I want to slow things down. Not with another goal-setting framework or a longer to-do list, but with something deeper.
How to Stop Comparing Yourself at Work: Lead with Clarity, Confidence, and Evidence
We all compare ourselves. It’s human. Comparison helps us measure, learn, and orient ourselves in new environments.
How to Overcome Fear of Failure and Build Career Confidence
Let’s talk about failure. For a long time, failure wrecked me. Didn’t matter if it was a botched marketing campaign or getting laid off, I’d spiral into anxiety, overthinking, and arguing with reality like I had a shot at winning.
The Center of Attention Trap
You know this person. They dominate conversations. They name-drop. They get visibly uncomfortable when left out of an email thread. "Oh, I didn't realize we were meeting about this," they say, with just enough edge to make everyone notice.
Your Career Has Seasons. Do you know Which One You’re in?
Seasons are a part of life. We need each season to grow and thrive professionally and personally. The fixed mindset would say I need more experience to go for that opportunity…
The GPS of Mindset: Why Leaders Get Stuck in Loops
I’m passionate about mindset, and I talk about managing it often. Your brain can be like a GPS that keeps recalculating and rerouting you in circles. Mindset is choosing the destination and setting the course.
How To Navigate The Loss Of Top Talent: 15 Tips For Small Businesses
In this Forbes article, experts share 15 practical strategies to retain knowledge, support your team, and rebuild stronger after losing top talent.
Grief Without A Funeral: Grieving Lost Opportunities
Not all grief looks the same. Here’s how to honor the loss of opportunity and turn those experiences into growth and renewed purpose.
The Paradox of Surrender
I know you know that life doesn’t always go as planned. A job rejection, a major health challenge, or a missed professional milestone can upend our plans. These moments force us to make a choice…
Finish 2025 Strong: Ground Your Final Quarter in the Values That Drive Real Results
Many people treat Q4 (or for some, the last 90 days of the calendar year) like a sprint to the finish line. The emphasis often turns to cramming in projects, chasing metrics, and trying to salvage whatever didn't happen in Q1 through Q3.
How To Make The Most Of Fractional Leadership: 20 Tips For Startups
In this Forbes article, Jill D. Griffin shares how startups can get the most from fractional leaders by treating them as trusted partners who drive growth.
Leadership Is A Mindset That Needs To Be Nurtured
In my Forbes article, “Leadership Is a Mindset That Needs to Be Nurtured,” I talk about how leadership is “a situational mindset, not a job title.”
20 Ways Executives Ignore Leadership Challenges—And Why It’s Risky
In this article, Jill Griffin outlines 20 common patterns that leaders often brush aside, and explains why skipping over them puts teams, growth and influence at serious risk.
Define Your Leadership Identity Before Someone Else Does It For You
In this article, Jill Griffin explains why clarity around who you are as a leader is not just self-awareness, but a strategic necessity that shapes how others trust, follow, and promote you.
How To Not Dread Criticism: 20 Mindset Shifts To Welcome Feedback
In her Forbes-Council contribution, Jill Griffin shares 20 actionable mindset shifts to stop dreading criticism and start using feedback like a strategic tool.
The ROI of Coaching
The numbers speak for themselves—coaching works. Whether you’re looking to elevate your leadership, drive business results, or navigate a career pivot, the ROI is clear.
You can be a Leader—and still spiral.
You can coach others, drive strategy, run big meetings, and still find yourself crying in a bathroom stall (or your home office?) Because some days, everything hits at once.
Managing Your Mind in Uncertain Times
Our brains aren't wired for this much uncertainty, and when the brain doesn’t know the answer, it attempts to figure out what it all means.
Excellence Over Perfection
There’s a real difference between striving for excellence and chasing perfectionism. One builds trust. The other builds ego. I saw this difference play out recently…
We Are So Hard on Ourselves—But We Don’t Have to Be
We believe our thoughts—often without questioning them. We assume our past predicts our future. But the truth? Our brains aren’t always clear on the facts…