By Kevin Johnson, PCC. Spending hours a day working from home on video calls can be just as draining -- if not more so -- than in-person meetings. Here's a brief conversation about "Zoom Fatigue" and some ideas about minimizing its impact. Kevin Johnson, PCC,...
The idea of working with an executive coach appealed to Lynda. She understood that executive coaching could help her strengthen her existing leadership skills and develop new capabilities. Lynda wanted to take on a bigger leadership role at work and was planning to...
By Kevin “KJ” Johnson, PCC. As leaders, we’re often expected to know the way forward. This expectation is a trap. In today’s ever-changing business landscape, economic forecasts are less reliable, sales expectations are guessing games, and consumer feedback is...
Most of us have now been working from home for about a month. As Zoom meetings and sharing your dining room table workspace with your partner and your 5th grader become the new normal, are you striving to be the best team member you can? Some of the attributes of...
By Sharon Krohn, MCC. Story telling has become all the rage. Is there value in storytelling for Leaders? In our Coaching Conversations I often explore with my leaders the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves to consider how these stories can impact the future....
An important component of true leadership is the ability to help develop those you lead. Not only do teams look to their leaders for professional guidance, direction, and support to help them do their jobs, the opportunity to learn and grow professionally is highly...
By Karen Carmody, PCC. To be successful at anything, you need to have a plan. Whether you’re running a marathon, renovating your home, or developing your leadership skills. A critical part of an Executive Coaching Engagement is creating a Developmental Action Plan...
By Roberto Giannicola, ACC It’s only Week Two. Your team works from home. The projects are still the same. (Well, maybe not entirely.) What’s changed though is how much oversight you have on your team. And you are struggling with that, aren’t you? You set up...
Ali is a bright, energetic product manager. She has career ambitions and has shown the ability to take the initiative — “This year,” she promised herself, “I’m going to work with an executive coach and get better trained as a leader.” The terms coaching and training...
By Sharon Krohn, MCC. I recently had lunch with the CFO of a multi-billion-dollar global company who I had not seen in a couple of years. The last we had spent time together she had confided her frustration with her organization — with corporate leadership and the...