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On With The Show: What are your pre-meeting rituals that help you show up as a motivating leader?
By Linda Bodnar, Ph.D., PCC My husband and I were at a restaurant last weekend (Ella’s, in Westerly, RI – I would highly recommend it!) run by a husband and wife team. The wife is the chef; the husband is the host who seated us. During the meal, the chef came around...
Is Your Team Achieving the Right Kind of Results?
It’s no secret that we are enthusiastic advocates of Patrick Lencioni’s Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team™. It’s a proven approach that builds strong, high performance teams. The five behaviors are linked together — one trait builds upon another, starting with...
Relationally, Perspectives Matter
By Amanda Zinke, MBA, MSOD, PCC Have you wished you could know better how to approach different people you work with? Or how to work better with a partner? Did you ever debrief a conversation with someone else who was involved and find you had two entirely...
6 Tips for Having Difficult Conversations
“I’d rather have dental work done,” thought Arthur, as he prepared for a meeting with an employee who seemed increasingly disengaged and had recently missed two important project deadlines. Having difficult conversations with others about job performance, work...
Giving an A
By Gilly Weinstein, PCC Part of any leader’s job is empowering the people around her, especially the people she’s responsible for. Not just to empower them to do more, claim more credit and own more responsibility for a given project, department or event; but...
How to ask your company to pay for your MBA — and get them to say yes
This week our Founder and President, Maren Perry, was interviewed by and quoted by Business Insider on “How to ask your company to pay for your MBA — and get them to say yes”. We’re proud to see her in print. Check out the article HERE
Applying The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team to Personal Development
Patrick Lencioni’s Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team™ has become the most widely used process for effective team development globally. The Five Behaviors approach builds effective, high performance teams based on a hierarchical model of vulnerability- based trust,...
Cultivating Creativity and Innovation: The One Thing You Need
Innovation is a hot topic these days. And creativity is required to support and sustain innovation. In fact, a survey by IBM of more than 1,500 CEOs revealed that creativity was ranked as the number one factor for future business success — above management discipline,...
Video Review as Super Power
By Tom Henschel A client of mine recently asked for a checklist to use when she watches herself on video. I normally don’t like checklists. They feel like an iron mallet when you need a silk scalpel. But when my client asked, I reconsidered. If you want to begin...
Know Yourself: The First Step Toward High Performance Leadership
“Self-discovery” is one of those terms that can set off an array of emotional reactions and assumptions. At first glance, its meaning and practical value may seem soft and squishy. “Is this about feelings?” thought Hwan, an accomplished applications developer and head...
How We Recognize the Humanity in Others
By Karen Delk, M.Sc., PCC What we learn as coaches are the importance of listening so that the concerns of others are understood. When tension and turmoil escalate in the world, our clients are not immune to what is happening, nor are we. At times like this, we...
Shape Your Mindset: How Do You Choose To View the World?
Think of a colleague or supervisor at work who drives you crazy. Take three minutes to describe the most recent thing they did that made you go a little nuts — write it down. Then, write down why they did what they did and what it was like for you — how did it impact...
Self Leadership
By Fran LaMattina, PhD, MCC Three years before I became a coach, I engaged a coach for my own leadership growth. As I look back over my initial experience of being coached, I realize that the most important part of my early work focused on growing in self-awareness,...
People Do Business With People They Know, Like, and Trust. Are You Likable?
Yes, it’s something of a cliché but there is an essential truth to the idea that people do business with people they know, like, and trust. In any organizational or team setting people really do prefer partnering with colleagues they know, are personally attracted to,...
Tips for Introverted Leaders
By Rachel Verlik, PCC Let me admit right up front – I am an extrovert. And by extrovert, I mean EXTROVERT. Like talk to the people in line at the grocery store, thrive being around others, and process all my ideas out loud – sometimes to my detriment! As my coaching...
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