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,...
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...
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