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6 Important Things to Look for in Executive Coaching Companies
If you are searching for executive coaching companies, there’s a lot of information to sort through and much to consider. And executive coaching companies have been trending over the past few years, so there’s more due diligence to do than ever before. According to...
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For A New Beginning – 2023
by Sharon Krohn, MCC The New Year invites us to celebrate another journey around the sun with a thoughtful perspective. I relish the experience of personal organization and quiet reflection in the realms of work and life, accounting for the year past and visioning...
Mindset and Personal Change: Climb the Ladder of Inference
Personal change begins with your mindset. As an executive coach, I’ve seen time after time that awareness and appreciation of your mindset — how you “see” things; how your beliefs and assumptions color your thoughts and actions — is essential to engage in any kind...
How to Be an Effective Coach for Your Direct Reports
By Laura Hansen. MA, PCC. One important competency for today’s leaders is successfully developing your direct reports through coaching. When you have decided that coaching is an appropriate approach with an employee, here are five things to keep in mind to be more...
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Executive Leadership: Welcome Your 360° Feedback, Don’t Dread It!
By Gilly Weinstein, MS, PCC If you have, are currently, or will soon be working with an executive coach, chances are your coach will run some 360° exercise at the onset of the engagement. By harvesting a wealth of feedback about you from all directions — peers,...
Executive Coaching Companies: 7 Tips to Find the Best In Your Area
There are lots of great reasons to engage executive coaching companies, such as developing leadership behaviors, building communication skills, and helping drive organizational transition and change. However, with literally tens of thousands of coaches and coaching...
7 Damaging Lies We Tell Ourselves
By Nicole LaBeach, PhD, PCC Few would argue that authenticity offers more personal benefits than the lies we tell ourselves. For example, we tell ourselves we’re going to be consistent about eating better. We may even blame others (e.g., parents, business...
Why Corporate Coaching Matters
Anna and Terrance are two high potential employees at their fast-growing software development company. Over coffee, they were talking about separate but similar meetings they had with Barbara, their CEO, about their leadership potential at the company and corporate...
Success in the Hybrid Work Space
By Danielle Siegel, PCC, LCSW. Recently, many of my sessions have focused on return to office/hybrid work planning and worries. Questions about how to make it work, support employees, and build a hybrid culture are common. My clients and I begin the conversation...
Executive Coaching Takes Entrepreneurs to the Next Level
By Elisa Canova, MBA, PCC. Entrepreneurs are driven, passionate, and want to succeed — but can they see when they are getting in their own way? Self-awareness is a critical skill for successful leaders. Yet, in the fast-paced world of entrepreneurship, it can feel...
What Company Coach Sessions Look Like
We are often asked, “What exactly happens when an executive coach is brought in to work with executives or high-potential employees at my company? What do company coach sessions really look like?" We admit that it can seem a bit mysterious. There are different...
High-Performing Teams: Maximize the Potential of Creative Abrasion
By Nora Infante, PsyD Recently, I mentored a group of leaders from all over the world as they completed a Harvard leadership academy. The academy curriculum was ambitious and challenging in both content and process — especially considering this was on top of their...
The Top 6 Benefits of CEO Coaching
Even the best — people at the top of their game — use coaches. Golf professionals are a terrific example. Virtually all the top players in the world use coaches to improve elements of their game, nip bad habits in the bud, and offer expert and impartial assessments...
How Habits & Routines Support Desired Change
By Claudia Beck, CPA, PCC One of the biggest challenges we face in life is making lasting change. Whether we want to lose weight, be less reactive, or simply get more exercise, changing our habits can be extremely difficult. So why do we fail? One of the...
Leadership Coaching: The 7 Biggest Mistakes Leaders Make
Leadership coaching with an executive coach helps clients clearly define their goals, explore mindset and assumptions in their everyday life and work, change behaviors, and strengthen leadership skills, emotional intelligence, and performance. Executive coaches...
Onboarding: Why Work with a Coach?
By Lyne Desormeaux, PSYD, MCC. Talent is moving fast these days, and many leaders are jumping ship and joining a new organization. If you are making such a change, there are five areas you may want to pay attention to: Having an on boarding (90-day) plan Getting...
5 Things to Consider when Evaluating Leadership Training Programs
Jon’s senior leadership team had — very smartly, in his and our estimation — approved moving forward with leadership training programs for the company’s high potential employees. Now he was given the responsibility of finding the right program and putting...
Executive Coaching Tips: Do You Tend Toward Toxic Positivity?
Barb McAllister, MS, MCC As a professional coach for close to 20 years, I’ve attracted a number of clients with Toxic Positivity. What is this? I can best describe it as a tendency to put a positive spin on everything. At first blush, people with toxic positivity...
Leadership Training: Why, What, and How to Get Started
“Our profitability, our values and corporate culture, and our future growth all demand we launch a leadership training program.” Linnea, the VP of Human Resources at a mid-sized technology firm in the New York City area, concluded her presentation to her senior...