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...
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...
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...
Across many industries and in many organizations, innovation has become a hot commodity. There are also compelling connections between innovation and leadership. Research conducted by Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman and reported in a recent Harvard Business Review...
Michael thought Patrick Lencioni’s Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team™ was brilliant. The Five Behaviors approach builds effective, high performance teams based on a hierarchical model of vulnerability-based trust, engaging in healthy conflict, team commitment,...
By Lilian Abrams, Ph.D., MBA, PCC. I’d like to tell you a true story about “Suzanne’s” results from coaching (my client’s name and select details have been changed to protect confidentiality). She is the highest-level female leader in a traditionally male industry...