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Setting Up your Meeting for Success
By Plum Cluverius, MA/ABS, PCC I’ve had the good fortune to serve on the adjunct faculty of the Federal Executive Institute for over 14 years. Located in Charlottesville, VA, the Institute was founded by President Lyndon Johnson’s 1968 executive order establishing a...
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The Art of Influence and Executive Presence
Think about someone you know who is great at influencing people. Now think about someone you know with a strong sense of executive presence (however you might define it). Does the same person come to mind? The power of influence is both an element, and an outcome, of...
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Boss’s Authority vs. Encouraging Collaboration
By Lilian Abrams, PhD, MBA, PCC What Was the Problem? In a recent coaching conversation, a senior-level female executive, Angela*, raised the topic of the tension she was experiencing between encouraging a subordinate to be collaborative, and that person’s...
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How to Wrap up Your Coaching Engagement
by Lyne Desormeaux, Psy.D., MCC I’ve been coaching for 18 years. I started my first coaching training in 2001. I’ve had the opportunity to coach a lot of leaders and complete a lot of coaching engagements. The ending of coaching engagements is really important,...
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Organizational Change Leaders – Want to Increase Your Odds of Success? Get a Coach!
By Salima Hemani, ACC In today’s VUCA world, leaders are under pressure to continuously evolve and transform their organizations unlike we’ve seen in the past. The expectations are high, budgets are slim, and employees are often not ready to embrace the change....
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Feedback – Easy Steps To A Positive Impact
by Janet Makepeace, MSW, ACC Does delivering difficult feedback scare you? Do you imagine feedback could be taken the wrong way, demotivating, insensitive or a waste of time? I’d like you to consider the risk of not practicing two-way input in a team...
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Eureka! I’m stuck…
By Eva Szekeres, MA, PCC Are you often confronted with extremely complex problems with a lot of uncertainty, where you feel that your usual analytical thinking is just not enough to find a solution? You are probably right - sometimes these problems are just too big...
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Executive Coaching in a Group Setting Achieves Big Results
Lucas is a talented, energetic rising star at his high-tech firm. Analytical and focused, he caught the attention of his CEO who saw great potential in Lucas as an executive leader. The company was prepared to engage an executive coach to help Lucas advance his...
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The Power of Praise
Camila and Sanjay completed an important project for the company and presented their analysis and recommendations to the management group. They thought things went pretty well. Three days later, their boss approached them saying, “I have a few concerns about your...
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Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence
By Danielle Siegel, PCC, LCSW This past week, I had the opportunity to facilitate the first day of a three day off-site for a client’s team. We decided that the focus of the day would be on team building as this was a remote group, and they were coming from around the...
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DiSC Assessments: Understanding Your Team — and Yourself
Based on the pioneering work of William Marston in the 1920s, DiSC is an elegantly powerful tool designed to better understand yourself, your team members, and how you interact and work together. A DiSC assessment provides a 2x2 matrix that identifies the degree to...
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Responding Instead of Reacting
By Laura Hansen PCC How can you build your capacity to respond versus react in the workplace and in your life when stress levels are high, conflict with colleagues is rife, the pace is warp speed, or when emotions are strong? What’s the difference between...
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Trust Me! All Team Performance Starts With Trust
Recently the CEO of a 500-employee sales and distribution company said, “We love to hire people who were involved in team sports in college.” Yes, the CEO did play baseball and basketball at a small division II school when he was in college, but he’s no ex-jock...
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Are You Working on the Right Things?
Rebeka is an intelligent, hard worker, who gets along well with her colleagues. She’s one of those people who adroitly handles whatever it is that needs to get done. Recently, an opportunity for a promotion to a leadership position presented itself and Rebeka was...
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Executive Presence in 3 Words
By Tom Henschel Racquel, a coaching colleague of mine, called asking if she could pick my brain. She knew I’d spent decades coaching senior leaders on executive presence and wanted my thoughts about a current client named Shanequa. “She seems plenty confident,”...
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