These gifts and your gifts are what people remember about you. Your brand.

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Making the Most of Your Coaching Dollars (Four Main Coaching Approaches)

Coaching is an investment and a tool to solve problems. It can help accomplish things faster, with longer-lasting results, and more permanently.

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Modalities of Coaching: Advantages and Disadvantages

What is a modality you might ask? It’s a fancy word for a form of coaching – And coaching can take place in many forms

What is a Coaching Culture?

Coaching Culture means that our organization behaves with the habits of Coaching. The organization is constructed with policies, habits, and behaviors that look and feel like Coaching.

The Best Version of Yourself

I find that knowing one’s true preferences and tendencies – and also knowing there is no one style that is better than another, allows people to honor their own style.

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Flow and Engagement

Flow is that magical state when you are so engrossed in what you are doing that time flies. What does this have to do with engagement? It’s the productivity arm of our engagement triad. We are at an utmost state of productivity because we are not just engrossed and highly focused but also enjoying ourselves which is what we want for every employee and leader.

Engagement: The Key To a Company’s Success

What is engagement? Gallup defines engagement as productivity, profitability, and retention.

Two Essential Themes for Productive Conversations

What we are really aiming for here is decisions that lead to commitment.

Improve Communication with the Coach-Approach

Transparency builds trust. By being direct about your intentions, you can ensure your conversations are having the right impact.

How a Coach Approach Makes Life Easier for the Leader

These are the benefits of a coach approach- more engagement from your team because they aren’t complying with demands and dictates- and get to grow

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What Is the Coach Approach?

The International Coaching Federation defines coaching as partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.

Self-Awareness for Leaders

What are HR leaders saying is important in leaders? (as reported in Chief Learning Officer Magazine?)

MOST IMPORTANT CAPABILITIES FOR EMERGING LEADERS THROUGH EXECS WAS

SELF AWARENESS
FOLLOWED BY COMMUNICATION
DEPENDING ON THE LEVEL THEN FOLLOWED BY EXECUTION OR STRATEGIC THINKING

THEY ALSO ASKED ABOUT THE PRINCIPAL NEED FOR COACHING…

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The Jerk Whisperer

How I got the name the Jerk Whisperer

Every brilliant leader has an achillies heel – some more vulnerable than others So let’s go back to our ancient English – the Illiad – and for images in art – I studied art history and the details in the story are amplified in the art

So achilies is the strongest and the bravest of the warriors sent to Troy

He slays Hector

But later – we learn he has been shot by Paris’s arrow – in the heel – his only spot of vulnerability

Why? His mother – crafty one – had dipped Achilles in the river styx as an infant- holding him by his heel - This area that didn’t get dipped – his only vulnerable spot.

The illiad is in part about misdirection of anger by the leaders

And we talk about leaders – and in this case their achilles heel and perhaps their misdirection of anger

A couple of weeks ago we talked about self-awareness being the #1 area for managers through Csuite to be developed

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Checking for blind spots

Leaders need methods to check for blind spots

I think we are all familiar with a blind spot- in a car it is those tricky areas that are unseen because of pillars or areas that windows and mirrors don’t allow us to see- hence the need to look over our shoulder to be sure. And as technology evolved we had additional sensors to cue us – the light or a sound on a sideview mirror that alerted us to the presence of potential danger.

Unfortunately, not every leader has a team that informs them of the presence of potential danger. It could be a bias for optimism that blinds them to risk, or pride that makes them overly confident and fail to create a risk management plan.

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Building Psychological Safety

High performing teams have psychological safety

Because the secret to high performing teams is psychological safety

What is psychological safety?

Psychological safety is the belief that you won't be punished or humiliated for speaking up with ideas, questions, concerns, or mistakes. ..