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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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Why Am I Still Stuck? Overcoming Immunity to Change
By Andreas Schumacher, PhD, PCC If you have ever tried to engage differently with your team, your boss, or people in general, you are likely familiar with this phenomenon: You created a goal, explained to yourself the reason for the goal, and have committed to...
What’s the Key Word for Leading in the New Normal? Belonging
By Hien DeYoung, PCC In a 2021 McKinsey quarterly report, research showed that 51% of employees quit their jobs due to a lack of belonging. With COVID quarantines behind us (hopefully) and the hybrid work environment in front of us, it’s not surprising that...
5 Signs it’s Time to Get Executive Coaching
Many people have benefitted from executive coaching — from high potential employees to seasoned CEOs. It’s a partnership. Executive coaches do not tell clients what to do; they help their clients clarify their goals, change behaviors, and strengthen leadership...
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...
The #1 Trait in Leadership Training: People Skills
An article was published three years ago in the Harvard Business Review titled, “As Your Team Gets Bigger, Your Leadership Style Has to Adapt.” Among the helpful insights in the article, such as moving from direct to indirect management and recognizing that people...
Elderhood: The Second Mountain
By Laura Hansen, MA, PCC In a series of recent conversations with one of my executive coaching clients, he told me that early in his career he had prided himself on being a “talented jerk” (his term). He reflected on the first company he had worked for where that...
The Value of the SBI Feedback Model
Are you aware of the incredible value of the SBI Feedback Model for executive coaching? Jason (not his real name, of course!) was increasingly irritated with the attitude of a direct report — Reilly. Over the past several months, Reilly had become increasingly...