As we cross into another year, I want to take a moment and extend my gratitude to you for your continuing presence in our web of valuable relationships and for your contribution to 2014 – OUR MOST SUCCESSFUL YEAR EVER!! This past year, I continued to redirect take lots of time toward my son, Chase, [...]
Article written for and originally published in International Coaching News :: international-coaching-news.net Careers take many forms in our modern world and the variety is expanding as we speak. Most likely you work for an employer. Also commonly, you may be independently employed as a contractor to a variety of organizations, or you may own and [...]
Speaking the Unspeakable :: Having Difficult Conversations Successfully :: Part Two – The How of It (Check the The What and the Why of It, in Speaking the Unspeakable - Part One >>) The Clearing Process It’s called a Clearing because there is something in me that needs to be said, communicated, requested or resolved [...]
Part One - The What and the Why of It Research shows there is one particular method of handling difficult conversations that managers throughout the business world have employed more than any other: Avoidance. People avoid difficult conversations, because most of us, from an early age, have experienced any kind of confrontation as unpleasant. They [...]
Welcome back to “Lead by Coaching: The Missing Piece”... In this second post we will explore “The ‘How’ of Coaching”. Let’s briefly recap the ending paragraphs of Part 1 as a reference point: “A good place for us to venture next in discussing coaching might be to define it. Simply put, my working definition is [...]
(As we launch into another year, back by popular demand, I am re-posting my blog from last January on this currently high-profile topic. I hope you enjoy and gain from it. By the way, Happy New Year!) It’s 2014 now, and like most people, you probably made some New Year’s resolutions. As a matter of [...]
I am an executive coach. I do what I do with executives and business people as an external service provider coming in to help them improve their game in all sorts of ways. But coaching is not something that is strictly for a professional coach to do with an executive or a client. Coaching is [...]
Malcolm Gladwell’s "Outliers" Re-frame On & Approach to Anxiety I was rereading (well, re-skimming) Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers recently. It is a reasonably good read – enjoyable, but not much that is new or particularly fresh to me. However, there is one concept that really caught my eye, and that is his re-frame on and [...]
Why are you here??!! Ever ask yourself what you were put on the earth to do? Better yet, ever really tried to ANSWER that question? If not, you are not alone. A personal mission is a fundamental and defining purpose. What are you uniquely built and positioned to do in your life and in the [...]
Last year, we said resolutions are a bad idea. Nonetheless, you probably ignored our advice and made some anyway. How’d that work out? If you weren’t successful with last year’s resolutions (heck, even if you were), let’s try something new this year: Let’s F.A.I.L. People fail all the time. In fact, in order to succeed, [...]
