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10 Barriers to Listening
By Kelly Ross, PCC. Listening is a critical leadership skill. Without listening we cannot be an effective leader. While it seems easy to listen, there are many things that pull our attention away from the conversation in front of us. Here are ten common barriers...
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Maximizing Executive Presence in the Virtual Space
By Sharon Krohn, MCC. Teams across the digital world suffer from Zoom Fatigue, as we are forced to endure hours of dull virtual meetings, in our yoga pants and fuzzy slippers. While we do not yet know exactly how the world will shift as we move to a semblance of...
Keys to Leading Effective Virtual Team Meetings
By Gilly Weinstein, MS, PCC. When it comes to leading or facilitating a virtual meeting, most principles from the olden days of meetings — think people sitting around a tangible table, breathing the same air, with dressier clothes — apply. I was reminded of this...
Covid-Ultramarathon: How to Stay Motivated
By Eva Szekeres, MA, PCC. Do you sometimes have the impression that since the pandemic has started, it’s as if we were living in the 1993 movie, Groundhog Day? (Where the main character finds himself reliving the same day over and over again.) Staying motivated day...
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Coach Your Employees. Avoid These 4 Mistakes!
By Steve Hansen, PCC. Recently I was coaching Tyler, who has two teams of 4 people each. We talked about what it takes to be an effective coach. While he had some experience using coaching as a method to help his team develop, he was feeling like he was not very...
Leadership and Developing Others
According to research quoted in the Harvard Business Review, there are 19 clearly defined characteristics that separate excellent leaders from average or poor leaders. One quality that you may find a little unexpected is the characteristic of “developing others.”...
How Effective are You at Time Management?
By Laura Hansen, PCC. Yeah, I know, you may be thinking time management is really basic, you know all about it, but be honest, how consistently do you actually practice it? Whether you think you know all about it or know you could improve, let’s do a refresher of...
Strategic Thinking and Mindset
The directive to be a “more strategic thinker” is said so often (and with so little precision) that it often comes across as cliché. Nevertheless, the ability to think strategically is invaluable for leaders and aspiring leaders. Reduced to its essence, strategic...
Yes to a New Job? How Coaching Helps
By Gilly Weinstein, MS, PCC. Pia was perplexed. At 48 and in a highly visible role for a major multinational, she sensed her growing and learning curves had flattened. As with many things in life, the pandemic surfaced some unavoidable reckonings, including the...
Commitment: Is Your Team Really on the Same Page?
Alex was a member of an interdepartmental team exploring logistics and expansion. They had just finalized their recommendations to the senior leadership: Move forward with the development of a new distribution center. Purchase a property located 20 miles north of a...
Leadership Skills Tune-Up
By Bryan Nadeau, PCC. There is nothing static about leading others. It requires ongoing input and learning. When was the last time you stepped back and got feedback on how you are showing up as a leader? If it has been more than 6 months, you are overdue for a...
Why So Serious? The Benefits of Humor at Work
By Kevin Ciccotti, CPCC, PCC. After the year we’ve just experienced, I don’t think anyone would deny that we could all use just a little more laughter in our lives. But what about more laughter at work? I think most of us would agree that laughter feels good and is...
Tough Conversations: What if You Assume the Other Person Is… Resilient?
By Lilian Abrams, Ph.D., MBA, MCC, ESIA. Sometimes, my coaching work weeks appear to have a theme. This week, the theme is: “When you anticipate having a difficult conversation, what would happen if you assumed that the other person was resilient?” Right now I have...