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Are Your Beliefs Hindering Your Leadership?

Our belief system is a key to the lives we create. If you are an executive, your belief system is likely to have an impact on your leadership style – whether you are aware of it or not.

Effective Team Building Needs Talent Diversification

A consulting firm hired me to do a team building workshop to help them work more effectively together. The team was overflowing with good projects but struggled to work together.

Leveraging your strengths for better work relationships

Mary Lou is a bright, successful professional who runs a fast-paced consulting group but needed coaching to improve a challenging and frustrating work relationship with her boss.

Are you a weenie?

“Do you think I am a weenie?” a client asked me at the completion of a leadership coaching session. I was surprised by the question because the client is an incredibly accomplished fellow who started and has managed a professional partnership for some thirty years.

Wisdom Within…Or How To Summon Our Innate Strengths

“You have the innate strengths, temperament and attitude for the test before you. Breathe deeply and know you have everything within you that you need at this moment and all your moments!” – Susan Spritz Myers This week Debbie Schimberg, one of my best pals sent me an...

A leader’s development improves the whole firm

Todd, the managing partner of a professional services firm, was frustrated with himself and his firm’s leaders. He had an intense passion and vision for where he saw the firm going, yet he felt like none of his partners shared his vision.

Improved emotional intelligence leads to big career advancements

A large pharmaceutical company hired me to coach Elizabeth, one of the team members of their clinical department. Elizabeth had been working on a new drug for many years and they were at the final stage of getting it FDA-approved. Elizabeth is incredibly bright and...

Going Dark: Disconnecting from Email and Phone to Improve Productivity

The other day a client mentioned that she would be “going dark” because she had to work on a big project. I was intrigued with the term, not having heard it used before. She meant that she would be heads down and not connecting with others…

Coach Training Matters

Coaching is powerful because of the objectivity a coach brings to a client. In coach training we call it a "lack of attachment", which means it is the coach’s role to help the client without any opinion or opportunity for the coach. The coach’s sole job is to help...

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Hire a well-trained coach

Coaching has exploded in the last decade. If you are thinking about retaining a coach for you or your team, make sure you hire one with training and experience. Anyone can call themself a coach; there is no license or experience required. There are many coaches in...

Working from Strengths Increases Energy

Jeff Jones, a Vice President in an international engineering firm, started coaching to help him transition from operating as a team manager to one of the firm's senior leaders. Initially, our focus was to increase Jeff’s self-awareness. I interviewed several of...

Development Plans Are The Key To Coaching Success

Coaching often starts with the goal to improve results. The path to the goal is not clear at the beginning of a coaching engagement. George, a 30-something media executive started with the desire to be a better boss. He is well thought of by his clients and bosses,...

Your Role In Challenging Relationships

Can you be objective about your part in difficult relationships or conversations and then challenge yourself to participate in different ways? In coaching, the focus is about taking responsibility for yourself and your actions, not blaming others for what frustrates...

What’s unique about you?

So often, we take our talents and abilities for granted. We believe because a particular skill or way of interacting with people comes easily, it must be equally easy for others. I often find the acknowledgement of a client's strengths can be surprising to him. When...