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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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Where Do You Want to Take Your Leadership?
By Bryan Nadeau, PCC. While we are well into the year, there’s still plenty of time to make 2021 a better year. What are you going to do with that opportunity? Where do you want to take your leadership? Leaders have a choice to constantly seek improvement or stay...
Want to be a CEO? Read “The Motive” Today!
The Motive: Why So Many Leaders Abdicate Their Most Important Responsibilities, a book published by Patrick Lencioni in 2020, is a must-read for all CEO’s, senior leaders, and people who aspire to positions of leadership. “Many people have wanted to be a CEO for...
The Art of Delegation — In 4 Steps
By Lyne Desormeaux, PSYD, MCC. Why is delegation so tricky? Delegation is one competency that keeps challenging managers. Many find it hard to give up control, fearing the work would not be done correctly or on time. Or perhaps a previous experience with delegation...
Leadership: Developing Level Three Listening Skills
Andrew was always astonished by how he and his boss, Jenn, would attend the same meeting, and after, she would invariably come out of the meeting with a deeper understanding and a more insightful take on what happened, what it meant, and what she needed to do about...
Mindful Leadership and Self-Awareness
By Shaun McKenzie, Executive Coach/Facilitator. As an automobile enthusiast, I’ve traveled to Germany several times to drive the Autobahn. For those who are unfamiliar, the Autobahn is Germany’s interstate roadway system famously noted for not having speed limits....
Want to be Respected? Show Respect.
The other day, Michael was thinking about respect. Yes, it can seem like an ill-defined idea, but Michael could see that the senior leaders at his organization are respected. And he was thinking about its importance, and how remarkable it was that among the senior...
Giving Effective Feedback… Effectively
By Salima Hemani, MBA, PCC. There are three key skills that a leader must demonstrate and master to become an engaged leader: Provide regular feedback Show support for other’s needs Address difficult situations and having challenging conversations Frankly, all...
Four Keys to Self-Care
By Dr. Nicole LaBeach, PCC. As a leader, what does self-care look like for you? Now more than ever, the words self-care should be considered necessary and timely, though many of us still struggle to make it a consistent priority. The conflict to not see it as...
Beware! The 4 signs of “Under-Management”
If you do a Google search for the term “micromanagement,” you’ll find over 5.8 million hits! Micromanagement has been studied, dissected, and written about extensively. But there’s a quiet, timid, opposing management style — and it does just as much, if not more,...