Executive coaching is a proven method to improve your communication and leadership skills, change behavior, and increase your performance. If you have the chance to work with an executive coach, congratulations, it’s a terrific opportunity! But you may wonder, “What...
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Mindfulness: the Power of Being in the Moment
Right now do you feel stress and pressure building? Do you feel as though you are multitasking at near the speed of light? If so, you are not alone. Two especially trying events intersect toward the end of every year. First, business demands increase at year-end....
Offer this High-Value Employee Benefit: Executive Coaching
Executive coaching can be a genuine game-changer for both executive leaders and their organizations. It’s often thought of as a stand-alone effort, separate from an executive’s day-to-day. Sometimes, it’s even perceived as a negative. What if you offered executive...
Strengthening Leadership Insight: Separating Fact from Interpretation
A critically important leadership skill — and one might argue, a critically important life skill — is the ability to distinguish facts from the interpretation of facts. Exceptional leaders are able to extract facts from the narrative of a story before intentionally...
Are You Ready for the Next Wave of Leadership? Generation X
Wait, this isn’t an article about millennials? No, it is not! So much has been said and written about millennials that it’s easy to forget that generation X follows baby boomers in the demographic queue. That fact is critically important because over half of all baby...
Essentials of Team Performance: Accountability
(This is the fourth in a series of five articles about building high-performance teams.) If you’ve read our recent articles about vulnerability-based trust, healthy conflict, and commitment for teams, you have the beginnings of a truly outstanding team! What’s next...
How to Develop and Strengthen Your Leadership Style
When we consider leaders we know, becoming a leader, or becoming a better leader, we naturally think about different types of leadership styles. Various experts have catalogued different leadership styles, from “relational” leadership to “transformational” leadership....
Executive Coaching is Not ‘Training.’ You Must be Coachable!
Innovative companies invest in the development of their employees by offering coaching to their high-value executives. These companies recognize that executive coaching is an opportunity for advanced leadership development. It’s a benefit offered to the best and most...
Improve Your Emotional Intelligence with these Practical Steps
Today, emotional intelligence is widely understood to be a highly desirable quality. Research shows that only about one third of a person’s success can be attributed to their intellectual capacity and functional skills. A remarkable two thirds of a person’s success...
How is Stephen in IT Like Spock in Star Trek? Executive Coaching is a Catalyst for Promotion
Spock never made Captain. It’s true! When Spock retired from Starfleet in 2269, he had never been promoted to Captain. Yes, it did finally happen, but years later — in 2277 — and six years after his reactivation during the V'Ger crisis. James T. Kirk, on the other...