GROW Your Potential

Tools to help you activate your best self in life and work.

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My name is Tracey Kelley "TK" Neal

Welcome to GROW! As a community and resource builder, GROW helps social workers and other purpose-driven professionals activate their potential in pursuit of well-being in life and work. Are you ready to activate the best version of yourself or your team? GROW offers custom 1:1 coaching and organizational well-being program development and training. We want to help you GROW with professional self-care, development and community. Book a complementary discovery call today to learn more.

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Empower Growth

Take care of yourself and develop professionally with our GROW resources, including the blog posts below.

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Job Crafting

Are you curious about the process of job crafting? How might you use this tool to design your dream job? Dr. Kaylee Hackney is an...

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Defining Sucess

What does it mean, and why does it matter? To begin a conversation I usually offer a definition for us to work from, but today I’m not...

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Enthusiasm - The real secret to success?

Why is it important to be enthusiastic? And what does enthusiasm have to do with success? Walter Chrysler the founder of The Chrysler...

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Bye Bye Servant Leadership

Servant leadership was a crucial stepping-stone into a more humane world of work but… There are signs in the research that we're at a...

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What are you looking for?

Welcome to the GROW resource blog. I'm committed to building a supportive GROW Community and resources to cultivate professional...

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What is "real" and what is "faux" self-care?

Every weekend my feed is flooded with posts reminding me to take some time to slow down, listen, and care for myself. This 10 Ways to...

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First-line Supervisors are the key to Organizational Transformation

Organizational transformation is often assumed to be a top-down process, but when first-line supervisors have the right mindset, they can...

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#MakeMacroMatter

I see you clinicians, therapist…I promise you won’t want to miss this either. Professional self-care is a conversation we need to have...

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Your professional self needs care too

These days we talk at length about the necessity of developing a self-care practice. This care is most often directed at our physical,...

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Is a stress-free life really what you want?

Not all stress is the same. We actually need "good" stress to help us meet your daily challenges and motivate us to reach your goals....

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Do you need a mid-year career boost?

The first half of the year is behind us, so what have you accomplished? What is left unfinished? How are you managing your life and work?...

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Mid-Year Performance Check

Can you believe the year is almost half over? Before you take a summer break, consider: A Performance Check. Yes, that's right, I am...

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Attention: Chronic High Performers

Career derailments happen to everyone, even high performers. Yes, chronic high performers we too can underperform. One study showed that...

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Isn't work supposed to be exciting all the time?

Do you appreciate what is not happening as much as what you want to happen in your career? Despite what might seem obvious, life and work...

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Don’t act like you know everything.

Accountability is challenging and takes humility. Professional accountability looks like: 👉🏼 Leaning on others' wisdom. 👉🏼 Being...

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Building a Personal Board of Directors

Some of us are lucky and we have influential bosses that invest in us and advance our careers. However, that's not the case for many of...

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The Art of the Check-in: Why you should be asking your colleagues how they are doing.

Do you ever feel isolated or alone in your work? To better understand the emotional impact of belonging — and its inverse, feeling...

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Influence without Authority

Sometimes, not being heard has nothing to do with your voice volume. Influence plays a significant role in our ability to communicate our...

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No One at Work is Listening to Me

Do you ever feel like no one at work listens to what you say? Struggling to be heard can make it difficult to bring your most productive...

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Feedback Matters

When you anticipate being evaluated or receiving feedback, how do you feel? There's no need for it to be that way. ❗ Giving feedback is a...

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