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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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Inspiration on Leadership from John O’Donohue
By Sharon Krohn, MCC. Written by the Irish author, poet, priest and philosopher John O'Donohue in his posthumously published book, To Bless the Space Between Us, the blessing “For A Leader,” speaks to the true essence of a leader. He challenges leaders to explore...
Gratitude for an Amazing Life!
By Dr. Nicole LaBeach, PhD, PCC. For most, this has been one of the most uncertain and anxious 12 months we have ever experienced. How do we respond as leaders, visionaries, motivators in this chaotic and often fatiguing time? Can we still hold to optimism? Can we...
4 Things That Will Wreak Havoc On Your Project
We all know how projects work, right? Projects have distinct goals and objectives, a fixed beginning point and a planned end point. Typically, they involve assigned teams of people working together. For many of us, a significant chunk of our work is project-based...
Become Fearless: Five Ways to Lessen Fear and Create the Results You Deserve
By Neal Eisenstein, MBA, MCC. If I learned anything from the biopic, Harriet, about Harriet Tubman or the Jack Reacher novels that I’ve been addicted to for years, it’s that courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more...
Setting the Stage for Successful Team Work
Not long ago, Charles and his wife remodeled their kitchen. They made some design modifications to the original layout and installed new cabinets, flooring, countertops, and fixtures. One day during the remodeling, he was surprised and intrigued to realize that...
Increase Team Engagement and Productivity by Slowing Down!
Linda Bodnar, Ph.D., PCC. One of the questions on the minds of leaders these days is how to engage with their team(s) in this virtual world. Another is how to plow through the seemingly endless and overwhelming amount of work and meetings. Sometimes these two...
Coping with Disappointment and Frustration
By Fran LaMattina, MCC, PhD. How well do you deal with disappointment and frustration? Over the years, I’ve learned that my response to disappointment and frustration is an indicator of my state of mind and my emotional intelligence. The quicker I escalate in my...
Can You Be Too Logical?
By Lilian Abrams, Ph.D., MBA, MCC, ESIA. Corporate America tends to expect, and even prize, logic. So where and how do emotions, goals, agendas, etc. (e.g. “politics”) fit in? In other words, what do we do when these non-logical aspects arise, and contradict our...
Leadership Development for a Remote Organization
Not long ago it would have been difficult to imagine a world where teams, departments, and even senior leaders rarely met with employees or each other in-person. If you are seldom in the same room, how can you build the leadership skills, common values, and team...