By Salima Hemani, ACC In today’s VUCA world, leaders are under pressure to continuously evolve and transform their organizations unlike we’ve seen in the past. The expectations are high, budgets are slim, and employees are often not ready to embrace the change....
by Janet Makepeace, MSW, ACC Does delivering difficult feedback scare you? Do you imagine feedback could be taken the wrong way, demotivating, insensitive or a waste of time? I’d like you to consider the risk of not practicing two-way input in a team environment....
By Eva Szekeres, MA, PCC Are you often confronted with extremely complex problems with a lot of uncertainty, where you feel that your usual analytical thinking is just not enough to find a solution? You are probably right - sometimes these problems are just too big...
Camila and Sanjay completed an important project for the company and presented their analysis and recommendations to the management group. They thought things went pretty well. Three days later, their boss approached them saying, “I have a few concerns about your...
Based on the pioneering work of William Marston in the 1920s, DiSC is an elegantly powerful tool designed to better understand yourself, your team members, and how you interact and work together. A DiSC assessment provides a 2x2 matrix that identifies the degree to...
By Laura Hansen PCC How can you build your capacity to respond versus react in the workplace and in your life when stress levels are high, conflict with colleagues is rife, the pace is warp speed, or when emotions are strong? What’s the difference between reacting and...
Recently the CEO of a 500-employee sales and distribution company said, “We love to hire people who were involved in team sports in college.” Yes, the CEO did play baseball and basketball at a small division II school when he was in college, but he’s no ex-jock...
Rebeka is an intelligent, hard worker, who gets along well with her colleagues. She’s one of those people who adroitly handles whatever it is that needs to get done. Recently, an opportunity for a promotion to a leadership position presented itself and Rebeka was...
By Tom Henschel Racquel, a coaching colleague of mine, called asking if she could pick my brain. She knew I’d spent decades coaching senior leaders on executive presence and wanted my thoughts about a current client named Shanequa. “She seems plenty confident,”...
By Linda Bodnar, Ph.D., ACC As we all know, IQ is not enough to make us successful as leaders. Emotional intelligence (EQ) is key to being a great leader. One aspect of EQ is self-management, which sometimes can be very difficult to accomplish! How often have you...