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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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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...
Are You Feeling Like an Impostor?
By Eva Szekeres, MA, PCC Are you listening to an endless tape in your head about not being good enough? Have you ever felt that you don’t belong? Do you always over prepare and still dread failing? Are you reluctant to ask for help, fearing you will be considered...
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Tweaking Traditional Goal Setting for Improvement: Identity-Based Habits
By Linda Bodnar, PhD, PCC. It is well-documented that goal setting brings about change. Multiple meta-analyses of related research studies clearly show that setting meaningful, specific, and challenging goals leads to higher performance than easy, do-your-best, or...
Could Off-Sites Be Your New “Office?”
A few weeks ago the Wall Street Journal ran a story titled, “The Off-Site is the New Return to the Office.” The author looked at ways that leaders at various businesses across many industries are re-thinking “off-site meetings” as a way to get people back to...
Are You Harboring Stealth Expectations?
By Rachel Verlik, PCC. Imagine this. You have had a conversation with your boss about your career interests, and you are both on the same page that you are ready for additional responsibilities. While you haven’t articulated a timeline or what those...
Is This Meeting Necessary?
Richard was reviewing his schedule recently and realized that he routinely had six or more meetings per day. Some were brief. Some were lengthy. Some were in-person and some were virtual. More and more were hybrid. He wondered, “Are all these meetings really...
Battling Burnout
By Julianna Hynes, PhD, PCC. When the pandemic first started in 2020, I started seeing inklings of burning out in my clients. As the year continued with more and more Zoom meetings, the inklings turned into confirmations as my clients shared issues they were...
Authenticity: A Positive Leadership Trait for the Post-Pandemic World
Throughout the pandemic we have tallied our losses, from layoffs, closed businesses, and broken social connections to illness and death. But what have we gained during this time? It’s hard to think in these terms, but there have been positive changes. At work,...
Discover Your Behavioral Authenticity
By Vanessa Tennyson, PCC, 3CP, SHRM-SCP Behavioral authenticity is the hallmark of the Triad of Discovery©. I describe it as “The basis of your true identity; your genuine self; the heart and soul of the person who exists when no one else is looking.” A task that I...
More Tips for Healthy Leadership and Minimizing Burnout (Part 2)
As we wrote in a recent blog, “Tips for Healthy Leadership and Minimizing Burnout,” don’t dismiss any signs of burnout — in yourself or among your employees. It’s real and it can have a devastating impact. Previously, we wrote about how healthy leadership requires...
Managing Change in a Growing Organization
By Amanda Zinke, MBA, MSOD, PCC. Recently a company I have the privilege of working with was tackling a huge change project. They have grown in the last several years and are more complex, adding more people, systems, and processes. What used to work in managing a...