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...
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...
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...
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...
By Margaret Enloe, JD, PCC A young man walks through Central Park wearing a t-shirt. It says in bold black letters, “WARNING, I’m not listening.” A touch edgy? Yes. A sign of the times? Maybe. Either way, it may work for a young man, but it won’t for leaders — the...
It’s a good time for us to share a few useful productivity hacks to help make your work more effective (and your summer more fun). Be an Early Bird Summer days mean that many parts of the country begin seeing the first light as early as 4:30 a.m. This is the perfect...
By Nick Tubach, MBA, PCC This Values to Direction and Action exercise will help you obtain clarity around your values, placing you in the best position to live them (your values) with intentionality vs inertia. It will be interesting to see how this impacts your...
By Bryan Nadeau, PCC, CTC Are your biases preventing you from seeing? Let’s begin with the definition of bias which is a particular tendency, trend, inclination, feeling, or opinion, especially one that is preconceived or unreasoned. Are your biases preventing you...
Executive coaches regularly field requests from HR managers and executive leaders to present various leadership workshops to their employees and teams — a seminar on becoming a better communicator, a webinar on listening skills, a session on developing emotional...
By Kelly Ross, MS, PCC What if you embraced more of an “enough-ist” mindset and let go of your perfectionist mindset? I can fall prey to perfectionism, as do many of the leaders I coach. Do you have this tendency? When I notice I have a really high bar for something...