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Ten Tips on Accepting Feedback Gracefully
By Maren Perry, Founder and President, Arden Coaching We often talk about how to give feedback effectively, though rarely do we hear talk of how to accept feedback well, when really, how effective the exchange is overall very much lies with the receiver of the...
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Five Ways to Demonstrate Executive Presence Today
Expressing an authentic sense of executive presence can be a challenge. And sometimes techniques may seem forced. So, perhaps it’s a blessing that we’re seeing fewer cliche power ties and power stances, and subject to fewer awkwardly firm handshakes these days....
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...
Essentials of Team Performance: Commitment
(This is the third in a series of five articles about building high-performance teams.) Team performance is judged in large part by the recommendations they put forward and the decisions they make. This includes the small steps that a team makes along the way, and...
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Yes to a New Job? How Coaching Helps
By Gilly Weinstein, MS, PCC. Pia was perplexed. At 48 and in a highly visible role for a major multinational, she sensed her growing and learning curves had flattened. As with many things in life, the pandemic surfaced some unavoidable reckonings, including the...
Commitment: Is Your Team Really on the Same Page?
Alex was a member of an interdepartmental team exploring logistics and expansion. They had just finalized their recommendations to the senior leadership: Move forward with the development of a new distribution center. Purchase a property located 20 miles north of a...
Leadership Skills Tune-Up
By Bryan Nadeau, PCC. There is nothing static about leading others. It requires ongoing input and learning. When was the last time you stepped back and got feedback on how you are showing up as a leader? If it has been more than 6 months, you are overdue for a...
Why So Serious? The Benefits of Humor at Work
By Kevin Ciccotti, CPCC, PCC. After the year we’ve just experienced, I don’t think anyone would deny that we could all use just a little more laughter in our lives. But what about more laughter at work? I think most of us would agree that laughter feels good and is...
Tough Conversations: What if You Assume the Other Person Is… Resilient?
By Lilian Abrams, Ph.D., MBA, MCC, ESIA. Sometimes, my coaching work weeks appear to have a theme. This week, the theme is: “When you anticipate having a difficult conversation, what would happen if you assumed that the other person was resilient?” Right now I have...
Coaching for Resilience and “Recalibration!”
By Margaret Enloe, JD, PCC. A cartoon shows a sleepy man holding his face mask while opening his apartment door. There, a large sign faces him and reads “RECALIBRATION, Scene 2, Take 146.” We chuckle because it resonates — every day, and especially during the...
Navigating Change
By Danielle Siegel, PCC, LCSW. This past year has been a year of change for most of us, and it’s possible that there are still more changes ahead. Maybe you are going back to an office after getting used to working from home or you are taking on a new job or maybe...
Meditation and Its Benefits To Leadership
By Lyne Desormeaux, PSYD, MCC. Did you know that, worldwide, hundreds of millions of people meditate? And that about 14% of Americans have at least tried it? The practice has become so popular that now you can find apps dedicated to teaching you how to meditate. ...
Finding it Difficult to Get to an Agreement? Often, it’s About the Small Touches
By Roberto Giannicola, PCC. Several years ago, I saw a documentary about an experiment that demonstrates how something tiny could create an entirely different outcome in people’s perceptions. This took place in a store. When customers paid for their items, the...