By Laura Hansen, MA, PCC In a series of recent conversations with one of my executive coaching clients, he told me that early in his career he had prided himself on being a “talented jerk” (his term). He reflected on the first company he had worked for where that...
Are you aware of the incredible value of the SBI Feedback Model for executive coaching? Jason (not his real name, of course!) was increasingly irritated with the attitude of a direct report — Reilly. Over the past several months, Reilly had become increasingly...
By Lilian Abrams, PhD, MBA, MCC, ESIA. Ali is a wonderful coaching client of mine, who is very strong in many respects. He is highly strategic, thoughtful, analytical, hard-working, results-oriented, respectful, warm, friendly, polite, and very well-liked by...
I’ve been wanting to write a blog about procrastination, but have been putting it off. Seriously! With summer vacations, holidays, some family-related travel, and my natural tendency to wait until deadlines are staring me in the face, I was actually procrastinating...
By Nick Tubach, MBA, PCC This Values to Direction and Action exercise will help you obtain clarity around your values, placing you in the best position to live them (your values) with intentionality vs inertia. It will be interesting to see how this impacts your...
At a recent coaching session with my client Jason, we found ourselves talking about networking. Jason said, “I think in-person business events are coming back. That means networking is back. I’m out of practice. How do I restart? What’s my post-COVID opening?” Those...
By Bryan Nadeau, PCC, CTC Are your biases preventing you from seeing? Let’s begin with the definition of bias which is a particular tendency, trend, inclination, feeling, or opinion, especially one that is preconceived or unreasoned. Are your biases preventing you...
Executive coaches regularly field requests from HR managers and executive leaders to present various leadership workshops to their employees and teams — a seminar on becoming a better communicator, a webinar on listening skills, a session on developing emotional...
By Kelly Ross, MS, PCC What if you embraced more of an “enough-ist” mindset and let go of your perfectionist mindset? I can fall prey to perfectionism, as do many of the leaders I coach. Do you have this tendency? When I notice I have a really high bar for something...
“Where have DiSC assessments been all my life!” thought Nathan. Nathan was amazed at the improvements he saw in himself and his team after engaging an executive coach to conduct DiSC assessments for each member. The sharing was a revelation. Now, the departmental team...