It’s Tuesday morning and you’re headed down the hall to your weekly staff meeting. Already you’re dreading the next sixty minutes, which will inevitably turn into ninety, making you late for the proposal meeting right afterwards. Great start to the week…. Why is it...
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Great Gift Ideas for the Office
Office gifts can be tricky: To whom do you give and how? How much do you spend? Well, we think of the etiquette as this: Give from the heart, not obligation. Do NOT give a gift to curry favor. Give (overly) appropriate gifts rather than risk offending someone. This...
Thanks-giving and Acknowledgment
This week many of us will trudge through spectacular storms to be with those we love and celebrate the passing of another year, for which we are grateful. As we reflect on all the things we are grateful for, I invite you to bring this gratitude to your work place as...
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Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals (book review)
Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals by Heidi Grant Halvorson As Executive Coaches, we're always working with our clients on goal fulfillment. Whether that's a goal of increasing your leadership or presentation skills, doubling the sales in your department, or getting...
HR Directors: Getting a Seat at the Table
Here at Arden Coaching, we talk to HR Directors all day long about their executives and about getting them the support they need to expand their leadership and step up to the next level. When we ask those HR Directors what THEY need and want, they often tell us that...
Happiness and Optimism Fuel Business Success: Not the Other Way Around
By Kathy Poehnert, Arden Coaching Executive Coach, New York It is a commonly held belief that when we are successful (whatever that means for us individually), happiness will arrive, and that with happiness comes the ability to have a more optimistic view of life. ...
What makes an Executive Coach the perfect Retreat Facilitator?
What makes an Executive Coach the perfect Retreat Facilitator? Running a retreat is not the same as running a meeting. At least is shouldn’t be… A meeting involves managing the day to day elements of a business. An offsite is an opportunity to step away, to get...