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Leadership Coaching Is Powerful

Leadership coaching is powerful and is worth the investment of your time.  Coaching helps you create more objectivity about how you contribute to your role, as well as find the next level in your leadership development.   You build awareness on many fronts and learn...

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Team Collaboration Needs Differences

Team collaboration flourishes when participants solve problems differently.  When participants are similar they create inertia and working together is slow; frustrating and output can be stale.  This article highlights an example of how one team struggled with this...

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Benefits of onboard leadership coaching

Onboard Leadership Coaching is a type of coaching used to support employees when they are new to organizations or change roles.  The leadership coaching work focuses on making a smooth transition into the new role.  It is powerful to start a new job with the...

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Annual goal setting

Annual goal setting

We are officially into the New Year, and moving quickly through the first quarter.  Do you remember your annual resolutions and goals?  It is certainly easy to forget all of those new ways of being or commitments we made in the excitement of the New Year.  It is easy...

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Leadership and Self-Deception – Your Way of Being

Leadership and Self-Deception – Your Way of Being

Leadership and Self-Deception, Getting Out of the Box, by The Arbinger Institute uses a powerful model that is often used to support executive leadership coaching work.  The model demonstrates when we do not honor our initial sense; we betray ourselves and go in a...

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Leadership and Self-Deception

Leadership and Self-Deception by The Arbinger Institute is a powerful book that helps clients gain powerful insights that lead to breakthrough leadership shifts. I often have clients read it as part of their executive leadership coaching work.  The book is a quick...

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How well do you say NO?

How well do you say NO?

How often do you say yes, when you really want to say no?  Do you respond with a list of reasons why something isn’t a good idea, when a simple no is what your gut says? Learning when and how to say no is how we create healthy boundaries. It sounds so simple, yet many...

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Understanding Emotional Intelligence

What really matters for success, character, happiness and lifelong achievements is a definite set of emotional skills – your EQ — not just purely cognitive abilities that are measured by conventional IQ tests. Daniel Goleman Emotional Intelligence or EQ for short has...

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Enjoy Thanksgiving every day

Enjoy Thanksgiving every day

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. Arthur Rubinstein The concept of Thanksgiving is a wonderful practice for every day.  It is a lovely American holiday.  It is not a commercial event filled with heavy-duty expectations like the winter...

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