By Steve Hansen, PCC As leaders and managers we all know that we need to coach our people to develop their skills and enhance their talents. Yet with the crush of business upon us our commitment to do so often gets consistently deprioritized. Over the years I’ve heard...
Amari is a technically proficient and accomplished engineer at a large firm with offices in New York, Chicago, Charlotte, and San Diego. Ten years into his career, he possesses a healthy awareness of his own patterns of thinking, his emotional state, and behavioral...
By Neal Eisenstein, M.B.A., MCC Does this sound familiar? Your direct report asks, “How would you like me to address this?” You say, “I think you should….” However, at a certain point, if this scenario repeats itself too often, it can suggest that your people have...
Popular culture is flooded with self-help books, videos, and celebrity gurus. Amazon offers no less than 28 different “self-help” search categories. One reason the self-help industry is so big is that meaningful change is really, truly difficult, whether we are trying...
By Barb McAllister, MCC I have a suspicion that many of us coaches may be recovering rescuers. I know I am. In his new book, The 3 Vital Questions: Transforming Workplace Drama, David Emerald describes the rescuer role within the context of the Drama Triangle, a...
Research on leadership recently published in the Harvard Business Review measured 19 different leadership capabilities. That’s a lot of characteristics to juggle and master! But not all capabilities are created equal. As seasoned executive coaches, one characteristic...
By Roberto Giannicola, PCC Has your own voice ever weirded you out when speaking to someone you consider high-status, as if you could hear your vocal tone morphing into something abnormal, spiking up a few octaves? I remember times I entered a conference room full of...
By Nora Infante, PSYD When I consider the most challenging issue for my clients to manage, the intrusion and influence of anger rises right to the top. Anger is an emotion which is at once naturally occurring, common and expected. To be sure, it is an...
By Kevin Ciccotti, CPCC, PCC We all know the old adage that no one truly achieves success alone. It takes many people, all playing different roles, to make a team or even an individual successful. Okay, so if we know and accept that, then why is it so...
Effective organizational leaders are forward-thinking and constantly looking for opportunities to improve. As they seek to strengthen their organizations, teams, and themselves, they understand that external experts can help accelerate the work and maximize results....