A critically important leadership skill — and one might argue, a critically important life skill — is the ability to distinguish facts from the interpretation of facts. Exceptional leaders are able to extract facts from the narrative of a story before intentionally...
By Laura Hansen, PCC Just like a star athlete or a world class musician, leaders who want to develop must master the fundamentals of their craft, says The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), an international organization focused on research and education in...
Wait, this isn’t an article about millennials? No, it is not! So much has been said and written about millennials that it’s easy to forget that generation X follows baby boomers in the demographic queue. That fact is critically important because over half of all baby...
By Dr. Nicole LaBeach, Ph.D., PCC Success requires vision, commitment, consistency, focus, sacrifice, and effort. As leaders, when things go our way we feel accomplished. However, when they turn in another direction we can beat ourselves up with how we missed the mark...
(This is the fourth in a series of five articles about building high-performance teams.) If you’ve read our recent articles about vulnerability-based trust, healthy conflict, and commitment for teams, you have the beginnings of a truly outstanding team! What’s next...
By Danielle Siegel, PCC, LCSW Many of my clients are so consumed by their work that they are struggling to see the bigger picture of life. They are like little gophers working underground and every once in a while, they pop their heads up to see what is happening in...
By Rachel Verlik, PCC Let’s be real- NO ONE likes having difficult conversations. They can be awkward and uncomfortable, with high stakes and little expertise in having them. And because we don’t like them, we either botch the delivery, get angry, or avoid them...
By Roberto Giannicola, ACC July 2004, San Francisco. It’s lunch time. I’m ready to deliver my first workshop. In the audience, there are roughly fifteen friends and acquaintances here to support me. After twenty minutes, that support turned into pity. Almost everyone...
(This is the first in a series of five articles about building high-performance teams.) Any leader who wants to create a high-performance team must begin with trust. Trust is the foundational behavior which enables the other four “cohesive” team behaviors — engaging...
By Janet Makepeace, ACC Can you think of a time when you have provided guidance to complete a task and ended up with an individual going off in a direction you could never have imagined? Or, worked hard to have your team prepare a deliverable and afterward find out...