We recently wrote about the importance of consistent coaching, training, and repetition for leadership development and training. In fact, consistency and repetition is critical for almost anything we wish to learn or improve upon — from leadership skills to baking...
Leadership
Tips for Business Leaders: Slow Down to Go Faster
By José Morales, MBA, MS, PCC Perhaps we need to slow down to go faster! Very often these days, it seems that our world is spinning ever faster. Things everywhere are changing, established orders are faltering, long-held values are being challenged and tensions are...
Decision Making Tips For Managers: Shine the Spotlight “Offstage”
By Neal Eisenstein, MBA, MCC Decision Making Tips For Managers Decision making is a critical leadership skill that surfaces often in the work of coaching. It can be fraught with all sorts of impediments and perceptual filters that prevent us from understanding the...
Project Plan for Self-Transformation
By Roberto Giannicola, PCC Most people I work with have created project plans for their technical work, inventions, products, or constructions. And yet, when it comes to their personal growth, they tend to “wing it.” We need a personal project plan for...
The #1 Trait in Leadership Training: People Skills
An article was published three years ago in the Harvard Business Review titled, “As Your Team Gets Bigger, Your Leadership Style Has to Adapt.” Among the helpful insights in the article, such as moving from direct to indirect management and recognizing that people...
Elderhood: The Second Mountain
By Laura Hansen, MA, PCC In a series of recent conversations with one of my executive coaching clients, he told me that early in his career he had prided himself on being a “talented jerk” (his term). He reflected on the first company he had worked for where that...
Why Leaders Should Not Ask Why!
Laura had just finished expressing her concerns about a project deliverable and suggested an alternative approach for the team. Amanda, her supervisor, was impressed, and wanted to know more about Laura’s analysis of the situation and her recommendations. “Why do you...
Reframing Diversity
Kevin Anthony Johnson, PCC As diversity, inclusion, and equity initiatives are being evaluated, more organizations are grappling with the cultural norms and standards set by predominantly white male leadership. It's time to work on reframing diversity. The words that...
One Way to Reduce Procrastination
I’ve been wanting to write a blog about procrastination, but have been putting it off. Seriously! With summer vacations, holidays, some family-related travel, and my natural tendency to wait until deadlines are staring me in the face, I was actually procrastinating...
“Hold on, Let Me Finish!” — How to Stop Interrupting
By Steve Hansen, PCC. We are all guilty of interrupting — but if we all just stopped and listened, argues Nancy Kline, we could radically change the way we live (from The Promise That Changes Everything: I Won’t Interrupt You, by Nancy Kline). Imagine the relief, the...