Trust is basic to leadership. Without trust, people watch their backs and look out for their own immediate interests. Without trust, there is no “leadership” in any true sense of the word — you must rely on your job title, blunt force, and fear to get anything...
Leadership
Resist the Need to Add Value
By Gilly Weinstein, MS, PCC. One of the coaching world’s leading figures and great contributors is Marshall Goldsmith. Multiple coaching frameworks and concepts we rely on today as coaches can be traced back to him, and he is still quoted and respected...
3 Pitfalls to Avoid When Giving Feedback
Leaders are constantly providing feedback to their employees. It’s a basic characteristic of leadership, yet one that is often handled awkwardly. Janice, a newly-minted department head, rose through the ranks by being very good at what she does (her expertise is...
Leadership Moments
By Kevin Anthony Johnson, PCC. “Leadership is influencing the thoughts, feelings and actions of others.” Robert Wright A client recently shared that they’d missed an opportunity. There was a moment in the last quarter where he could’ve said something about the...
Stop Procrastinating by First Asking “Why?”
Stewart has always been a bit of a procrastinator, but he had fallen way behind schedule with performance reviews for his team. “I need to stop procrastinating!,” he shouted to himself. Is procrastination something you struggle with? Many articles, blogs, social media...
Tweaking Traditional Goal Setting for Improvement: Identity-Based Habits
By Linda Bodnar, PhD, PCC. It is well-documented that goal setting brings about change. Multiple meta-analyses of related research studies clearly show that setting meaningful, specific, and challenging goals leads to higher performance than easy, do-your-best, or no...
Could Off-Sites Be Your New “Office?”
A few weeks ago the Wall Street Journal ran a story titled, “The Off-Site is the New Return to the Office.” The author looked at ways that leaders at various businesses across many industries are re-thinking “off-site meetings” as a way to get people back to working...
Are You Harboring Stealth Expectations?
By Rachel Verlik, PCC. Imagine this. You have had a conversation with your boss about your career interests, and you are both on the same page that you are ready for additional responsibilities. While you haven’t articulated a timeline or what those responsibilities...
Is This Meeting Necessary?
Richard was reviewing his schedule recently and realized that he routinely had six or more meetings per day. Some were brief. Some were lengthy. Some were in-person and some were virtual. More and more were hybrid. He wondered, “Are all these meetings really...
Battling Burnout
By Julianna Hynes, PhD, PCC. When the pandemic first started in 2020, I started seeing inklings of burning out in my clients. As the year continued with more and more Zoom meetings, the inklings turned into confirmations as my clients shared issues they were having,...