By Linda Bodnar, Ph.D., PCC My husband and I were at a restaurant last weekend (Ella’s, in Westerly, RI – I would highly recommend it!) run by a husband and wife team. The wife is the chef; the husband is the host who seated us. During the meal, the chef came around...
By Amanda Zinke, MBA, MSOD, PCC Have you wished you could know better how to approach different people you work with? Or how to work better with a partner? Did you ever debrief a conversation with someone else who was involved and find you had two entirely different...
“I’d rather have dental work done,” thought Arthur, as he prepared for a meeting with an employee who seemed increasingly disengaged and had recently missed two important project deadlines. Having difficult conversations with others about job performance, work...
By Gilly Weinstein, PCC Part of any leader’s job is empowering the people around her, especially the people she’s responsible for. Not just to empower them to do more, claim more credit and own more responsibility for a given project, department or event; but...
Patrick Lencioni’s Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team™ has become the most widely used process for effective team development globally. The Five Behaviors approach builds effective, high performance teams based on a hierarchical model of vulnerability- based trust,...
By Tom Henschel A client of mine recently asked for a checklist to use when she watches herself on video. I normally don’t like checklists. They feel like an iron mallet when you need a silk scalpel. But when my client asked, I reconsidered. If you want to begin...
“Self-discovery” is one of those terms that can set off an array of emotional reactions and assumptions. At first glance, its meaning and practical value may seem soft and squishy. “Is this about feelings?” thought Hwan, an accomplished applications developer and head...
By Karen Delk, M.Sc., PCC What we learn as coaches are the importance of listening so that the concerns of others are understood. When tension and turmoil escalate in the world, our clients are not immune to what is happening, nor are we. At times like this, we...
By Fran LaMattina, PhD, MCC Three years before I became a coach, I engaged a coach for my own leadership growth. As I look back over my initial experience of being coached, I realize that the most important part of my early work focused on growing in self-awareness,...
Yes, it’s something of a cliché but there is an essential truth to the idea that people do business with people they know, like, and trust. In any organizational or team setting people really do prefer partnering with colleagues they know, are personally attracted to,...