Leadership

How to Inspire Loyalty within Your Team

Gone are the days that employees stay with one or two companies for the entirety of their careers. But that doesn’t mean loyalty is completely out of the picture. Now, more than ever, businesses depend on bosses and managers who can inspire loyalty through their...

Manager as Coach: Creating an Empowered Workplace

By: Barbara McAllister, M.S., PCC I spent many years as a manager at all levels of government.   One thing I wished I had mastered was coaching skills.   I’m not talking about being a professional coach as manager; rather, I’m talking about wearing a coaching hat when...

Manager as Coach: Creating an Empowered Workplace

By: Barbara McAllister, M.S., PCC I spent many years as a manager at all levels of government.   One thing I wished I had mastered was coaching skills.   I’m not talking about being a professional coach as manager; rather, I’m talking about wearing a coaching hat when...

Measuring Soft Skills

  By Maren Perry, MA, PCC As coaches, working with clients to measure, track and improve their soft skills is a huge part of our job. Many of our Executive Coaching clients are working on their emotional intelligence and increasing their soft skill effectiveness...

Strength-Based Leadership

….. From “Problem-Solving” to “Success Analysis” By Kathy Poehnert, M,Ed,Psych, PCC If you are a parent (or were once a child!) you know the typical reaction to a report card that looks like this: A A A D A Where does the eye and attention tend to go? For most, the...

Meta-Tools for Leading through Complexity

By Marc Smith-Sacks Many of the executive leaders that I coach lead teams and departments in highly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) environments. They face problems that do not have clear-cut, logical solutions, that even the experts fail to discern...