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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...
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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...
Assertiveness: a Misunderstood Strength
By Nick Tubach, MBA PCC. Being assertive is just an expression of your worth and, in the context of leadership, can help you create a collaborative and inquisitive team dynamic. Uncovering the “what ifs” often lead to positive and sometimes transformational...
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Improve Leadership Results by Being Mindful, Selfless, and Compassionate
By Megan Broker, MA, PCC In our hustle to measure performance, we have neglected ourselves. But there is measurable impact in being mindful, selfless, and compassionate in what the Dalai Lama refers to as “our basic human need for kindness and care,” in his...
4 Essential Traits for Leading Organizational Change
Big changes were coming to Brandon’s architectural and engineering firm. Senior leadership wanted to move away from several markets it had historically served and move into new markets that they believed offered more opportunity. Departments and teams would...
Go With Your Gut: Intuition and Managerial Decision Making
By Katherine Poehnert, MEd Psych, PCC Making a choice or decision can be tough for many people, although I did hear that looking into a mirror is good, as it helps to reflect… But, seriously, choices are a part of our every day life. What should I wear today? What...
How to Find the Time for Consistent Leadership Development and Training
We recently wrote about the importance of consistent coaching, training, and repetition for leadership development. In fact, consistency and repetition is critical for almost anything we wish to learn or improve upon — from leadership skills to baking fresh...
Tips for Business Leaders: Slow Down to Go Faster
By José Morales, MBA, MS, PCC Perhaps we need to slow down to go faster! Very often these days, it seems that our world is spinning ever faster. Things everywhere are changing, established orders are faltering, long-held values are being challenged and tensions are...
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...
Decision Making Tips For Managers: Shine the Spotlight “Offstage”
By Neal Eisenstein, MBA, MCC Decision making is a critical leadership skill that surfaces often in the work of coaching. It can be fraught with all sorts of impediments and perceptual filters that prevent us from understanding the larger picture of things. I am...
Critical In-Person Meeting Tips: Use a Facilitator
As organizations rethink their long-term work options — such as work-from-home, in-office, and hybrid arrangements — larger departmental, divisional, and company-wide meetings are making a comeback. One of the biggest in-person meeting tips I can provide is to use...
Project Plan for Self-Transformation
By Roberto Giannicola, PCC Most people I work with have created project plans for their technical work, inventions, products, or constructions. And yet, when it comes to their personal growth, they tend to “wing it.” We need a personal project plan for...