By Rachel Verlik, PCC Let me admit right up front – I am an extrovert. And by extrovert, I mean EXTROVERT. Like talk to the people in line at the grocery store, thrive being around others, and process all my ideas out loud – sometimes to my detriment! As my coaching...
Most of us work very hard. We arrive at the office early and stay late. And we pride ourselves on being “helpers,” lending a hand with everything and anything, from taking on extra tasks for urgent short-term projects to arranging cake for monthly office birthday...
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...
A recent Harvard Business Review article states that everyday approximately 55 million meetings occur in the United States. Love them or loathe them, no one can deny that a great deal of critical interaction, sharing, ideation, and decision-making happen in meetings....
Dr. Nicole LaBeach, Ph.D., PCC Whether with your peers, colleagues, siblings, friends, children, or significant other, you probably desire a healthy level of respect in all of your relationships. At minimum, most would agree every human being deserves a basic level of...
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...
Anthony was asked to lead a new cross-functional team at his company. The mission of the team — innovation. Senior leadership felt that the company’s historic reliance on serendipity was not enough to drive future success, and that a more formal, structured approach...
Here’s a to-do list that you will NOT see on the desk of an executive with strong leadership skills: Review audit Complete draft CRM proposal Meet with supply chain manager Demonstrate leadership behavior Update west coast team True leadership is not a task that...