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The Role Of The Executive Coach: Developing The Best Talent
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| Today’s economic environment is demanding even more from the individuals holding executive leadership positions. Doing more with less is the mantra of most organizations. The executive coach serves as an extra pair of eyes, ears and added experience to aid in new and different approaches executives used to meet organizational goals. |
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The ROI of Executive Coaching
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| Executive coaching helps key individuals in the organization thrive not just survive. The executive coach helps executives focus and adjust to new organizational realities as they occur. The executive coach helps anchor the executive being coached to focus on… and achieve specific business/organizational outcomes…resulting in a good ROI. |
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Executive Coaching and It's Value
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| Executive Coaching can be the key to success and failure. It doesn’t matter if you’re in a product or service oriented business, executive coaching and its value is tremendous. |
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The Most Effective Method for Executive Coaching
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| The most effective method for executive coaching is appreciative coaching. Appreciative coaching is asset-based. It builds on the existing strengths of the individual creating a bold use of natural strengths which will produce a highly desirable future. It values the best of what is, looks at what might be, and aligns values, structures, and processes toward accomplishing the possibilities. |
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What To Look For In A Mentor
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| I always tell my executive coaching clients that surrounding yourself with positive people is a great way to build self confidence. I urge them to find a mentor, someone who can help them on their success journey. Typically, mentors are older than the people they help. However, in this new world of technology, that is not always the case. I have a mentor who is about 20 years younger than me, but he has some specialized knowledge that I lack. Whether you do it in person, or on line, find yourself a mentor to help you on your journey of career and life success. |
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A Lesson From a Ski Hill
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| How often do we look around, get distracted and lose our focus? What does that cost us in business and in our personal lives? |
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So what differentiates a Life Coach from a Business Coach from an Executive Coach?
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| What style of coaching do your staff need and are you giving them access to the right coaches?
Here's a quick definition of how Life, Business and Executive Coaching differ. |
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When is Business or Executive Coaching NOT appropriate?
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| You are passionate to develop your staff and want to Coach them to success. However there are three key situations where Coaching may not be the most appropriate tool to use. Keep these three scenarios top of mind before jumping into a Coaching session with your staff. |
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10 Keys to Business Growth in a Shifting Economic Landscape…
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| Valuable tips to grow your business in an ever changing market. |
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10 Steps to Creating an Amazing 2009
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| It's not only about setting your personal boundaries but to remove the roadblocks you put in place that hamper success. |
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A World of Contradictions
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| What contradictions are you living right now? What do you have to give up to get a lot more? |
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Executive Coaching on the Rise
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| Covers why one might engage the services of an external coach, how a typical coaching process works, when to consider using a coach and what to look for when selecting one. |
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Leadership and Winning the Lottery
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| Matthew was promoted to CEO of his company. He decided he had "made it". He learned everything he need to know, then why was he depressed and exhausted by the daily interactions with his senior team. |
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18 STRATEGIES TO AVOID CHANGE
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| Change is not simple. Why do we repeat behavior that doesn't work? Especially those actions that lead to stifling debt, disappointing careers, or stuck relationships? Then do it harder, yet expect a different result?
This article presents the major barriers to change, and in the process, their solutions. |
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3 Leadership Rules to Get Employee Buy-In
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| Did you ever surprise someone with a gift and did not get the response you were hoping for?
This happens all the time. Part of the reason is we can only get inside someone else's thinking and emotions to a point; no matter how well we know them. It's the same at work.
You will find 3 leadership rules to get employee buy-in, that if followed will create inclusion in the workplace.
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It Gets Lonely at the Top
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| Being a President, CEO or the owner of a company can get lonely at times. This is true even if you are an excellent leader and have developed a top notch executive staff. Often times you face decisions, challenges or just thoughts that you can't even divulge to your most trusted employee. Some CEOs use executive coaches to help them during these times. I personally do some executive coaching. Often times coaching is just affirmation and validation of one's own thinking but it is important to have that outlet. |
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How to choose your executive coach -1
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| Executive Coaching centers around the learner on the job. An executive coach helps the learner in identifying key areas of focus and helps in developing an action plan. Executive Coaching deals with the person, the job challenges, and the skills needed. Therefore executive coaching is very effective in developing leadership skills.
The question is how to select a good executive coach? The "How to choose your Executive Coach?" series deals with this crucial question. |
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Taking the Initiative
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| Sometimes less is more. In life and business knowing when to act is the key to success. Lessons learned in martial arts can carry over to the business world. Expending unnecessary energy is never productive and a good manager like a good teacher can model this behavior to his students or employees. |
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Career Coaching Case Study: Client Creates Work With Purpose and Passion
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| We are all trying to understand and cope with the enormous changes in our work and personal lives. Mostly we react in a positive and productive manner. However, many people are describing their lives as so busy, working so many hours, trying to balance work and personal lives that we often feel physically and emotionally exhausted.
I work as a consulting psychologist and executive/career coach specializing in helping leaders and lawyers with work- related problems. Let me tell you a brief story about a company leader I helped with a career transition.
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Executive Coaching for Creating a State of Flow - Flow Exercise
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| One of my CEO executive coaching clients is working with his executive leadership team to create an organizational culture that unleashes employees' intrinsic motivation and state of flow. I am coaching him to become more effective at appealing to employees' intrinsic motivation and core values, and helping leaders at all levels of the organization become more fully engaged in creating a culture that supports flow. |
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Executive Coaching for Creating a State of Flow at Work
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| One of my CEO executive coaching clients is working with his executive leadership team to create an organizational culture that unleashes employees' intrinsic motivation and state of flow. I am coaching him to become more effective at appealing to employees' intrinsic motivation and core values, and helping leaders at all levels of the organization become more fully engaged in creating a culture that supports flow.
The CEO knows that for the organization to thrive depends on creating an organizational culture and climate that nourishes constant innovation. Human Resources is partnering with me in supporting senior leaders to motivate people by building authentic relationships. |
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Executive Coaching Secrets for Socially Intelligent Sales - 9 Sales Tips for Tough Economic Times
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| It's no new news that we are in a difficult business climate that requires making connections and building relationships more important than ever. We buy from people we know, like and trust.
Right know and for the foreseeable future, we are experiencing a business climate where people and organizations are holding on to their wallets. There is a psychological and behavioral contracting effect due to uncertainty about the future. |
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Happiness is an Option for Lawyers - Creating Success and Fulfillment in Work and Life
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| In the increasingly demanding world lawyers face; many lawyers desire to achieve professional success, a fulfilling life, and true happiness. However, achieving both their personal and professional goals sometimes proves to be very difficult. Many lawyers report being unhappy with the choices they have made and desire a different future. |
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Executive Coaching for Creating a State of Flow - Ten Essential Flow Factors
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| One of my CEO executive coaching clients is working with his executive leadership team to create an organizational culture that unleashes employees' intrinsic motivation and state of flow. I am coaching him to become more effective at appealing to employees' intrinsic motivation and core values, and helping leaders at all levels of the organization become more fully engaged in creating a culture that supports flow. |
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Executive Coaching for Creating Goals - Goal-Setting Strategies for Leaders
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| Do your organizational leaders have clearly defined written goals? Research shows that those people who actually sit down and write out their goals not only end up achieving them, but have higher incomes and ratings for overall success and life satisfaction. |
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Executive Coaching for Creating Goals - Goal-Setting Strategies for Leaders
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| Do your organizational leaders have clearly defined written goals? Research shows that those people who actually sit down and write out their goals not only end up achieving them, but have higher incomes and ratings for overall success and life satisfaction. |
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The Coaching Phenomenon
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| For years, it was the private secret of the business world. Corporate executives experienced it behind closed doors, in board rooms, and in departmental meetings. Now, the secret's out of the closet, and the public has discovered it. |
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Executive Coaching for Emotionally Intelligent Leadership - 3 Steps to Positive Leadership
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| Are you feeling fully appreciated at work? Do you have the chance to do what you do best every day? Do you know what is expected of you at work? Does your manager know you and focus you? Fully engaged people at work can answer these questions with a resounding yes!
Most of us start a job motivated to perform our best, but sometimes working for a poor manager can be de-motivating or worse. Positive leaders provide leadership to help people unleash their creativity, improve performance and fully engage. Optimistic leaders rally people to a better future. They have a strong sense of significance. Who do you serve? |
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Executive Coaching to Develop Emotionally Intelligent Leaders
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| Driving the trend for executive coaching is the business reality that good people are hard to find and harder to keep. With a constant need to stay competitive, companies are seeing coaching as a way to help valued employees develop swiftly in a rapidly changing business environment.
A growing number of Fortune 500 companies offer executive coaching to their top people. Whether hiring external coaches or training their own leaders in coaching skills, companies are finding that coaching is essential for creating change and evolving people towards their highest productivity and potential. |
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How to Get the Most Out of Executive Coaching
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| When used for the right reasons and with competent practitioners, executive coaching can provide significant and lasting benefits for both individuals and organizations. But like other innovations, coaching can become just another business fad. When not effective, it can cause harm to individuals and organizations and waste large amounts of money. |
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Coaching Leaders to Change - Leadership Development to Optimize Potential
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| How do you convince leaders to change? How can you optimize their talents and potential? Which best practices in executive coaching programs produce lasting results that drive business performance?
Executive coaching offers a tremendous opportunity to leverage leadership talent and resources, both of which can steer an organization toward sustainable success. |
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A Leadership Checklist - 7 Self-Awareness Questions
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| No matter how successful and talented you are, you've made mistakes and have acquired some bad habits. Some are old; others have seemingly popped up overnight. Behaviors that may have worked well for you in the past can render you ineffective in the present.
The best way to make swift adjustments is to periodically step back, observe and ask yourself several key questions. Some experts advise doing this every three to six months; much depends on the nature of your business. |
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Executive Coaching: A Leadership Development Tool for Top Performers
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| Executive coaching has evolved rapidly over the years. For some, it considered itself a field, others consider it a form of consultation. There are "executive" coaching has many interpretations. No matter how you define it, training for executives who want to develop as a leader can be a useful tool.
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How to Deal with Difficult People at Work
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| Hardly a day goes by in my executive coaching practice without someone sharing a story with me of how someone at work is driving her nuts and sapping their energy. Very often it's their boss who they experience as being arrogant, condescending, and disrespectful or maybe even a bully. It may be a co-worker who is argumentative with a big ego and thinks he's always right. |
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In Today’s Economy, YOU Need to be Better to Compete!
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| One thing for sure is that in today’s economy, YOU need to be better. Not a better website, not a better pill, not a better CRM (customer relations manager), not a better prospect list and not a better book off the shelf! I have some very helpful tips that will guide you to being a better YOU in this increasingly competitive economy. |
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Leading with Why - Inspiring Passionate Followers
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| What is the secret to creating successful businesses that marry passion, purpose and profits? Ignite peoples passions by clearly communicating what you believe and why. |
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Five Ways for Sales Leaders to Stay Inspired
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| Paul Smith is the Sales Director of a leading pharmaceutical company. He has been in the industry for the last 10 years and has been a star in his various sales and marketing roles. His recent promotion, finds him managing managers. His leadership style has always been one of pace setting and leading by example. Having just gone through a sales force downsizing Paul has adopted an inspirational leadership style.
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Sales Management Case Studies Inspired Five Ways for Sales Leaders to Stay
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| Paul Smith is the Sales Director of a leading pharmaceutical company. He has been in the industry for the last 10 years and has been a star in his various sales and marketing roles. His recent promotion, finds him managing managers. His leadership style has always been one of pace setting and leading by example. Having just gone through a sales force downsizing Paul has adopted an inspirational leadership style. |
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Motivational Leadership - Creating Loyalty
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| There are leaders, and then there are those who actually lead. Every executive who supervises others must be prepared to motivate-a skill that really isn't difficult. It requires you to create loyal customers and workers who link themselves to your higher cause. General Motors so successfully motivated people to buy their cars, for example, they sold more than any other automaker in the world for over 77 years. Although they were first in their industry, they did not inspire loyalty. |
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How Inspired Leadership Creates Dream Jobs
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| Studies have shown that more than 80 percent of U.S. employees don't believe they're working in their dream jobs. What if leaders could change this? What if they began to inspire their people with why they do what they do, instead of the what and the how of company policies and procedures? What if 80 percent of your workforce actually thought they had landed their dream jobs? |
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Inspired Leadership - The Brain Science of Inspiration
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| Leaders who want to succeed should clearly communicate what they believe and why they're so passionate about their cause. |
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Is It Time To Call Your Own Baby Ugly?
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| Sometimes the hardest thing to do is take a good look in the mirror! |
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Is Personal and Business Coaching Alive in Ireland?
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| A common concern amongst Coaches in the current climate is the lack of data outlining whether or not people are looking for Coaching. If people are looking for Coaches; what type and where? Unfortunately, there is no empirical data to suggest whether or not the coaching industry is growing or if coaching is being embraced by the Irish public and businesses. |
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High Performance
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| After recently discussing with a client their high performance model, I realised that it may not actually be one!
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The Philosophy of Fear and Confrontation
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| Is there now, or has there been, a person or two in your life that you have difficulty in maintaining a civil relationship with at times? It may be your spouse or lover; it may be a friend or a superior at work. We usually say "I have a love-hate relationship with this person." |
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Perfect Imperfections
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| What does being "perfect" mean to you? |
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Is it finally time to forgive
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| In order to free ourselves from the pain of anger and resentment we need to be able to forgive our self and others. The longer we dwell on hurtful situations from the past, the longer we keep our self from living fully in the present. Forgiveness is an act of kindness. An act of kindness to your self, as it leads to a sense of personal freedom. |
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From the perspective of a child
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| An article about keeping the ups and downs of your life, in a healthy perspective. |
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Does your story have a future?
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| If you continue telling the same sad story about your past, you're likely continue to not feel good about yourself. |
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Are you able to say both Yes and No
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| I hear from many people that they see ever increasing expressions of anger in their everyday life. Understanding the process of anger is an important topic for all of us to take a closer look at. |
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Anger Management Practice The gift of forgiveness
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| This anger management Practice draws on the dual wisdom of Aikido and scientific research. "The gift of forgiveness" will help you explore how to change long term anger into a wider range of life affirming emotions. It is a simple yet profound Practice following the Seishindo principles of Absorption, Utilization, and Balance. |
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A full life is not necessarily a long life
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| Please appreciate the life you DO have. |
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A Simple Friendship
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| An account of how relationships are formed in Japan. Good to consider such subtlety when you want to make a better relationship with someone. |
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3 Keys to Leadership Success
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| I've learned over the years that my most effective executive coaching leadership clients know the "why" of what they are passionate in achieving. They get excited in my office telling me inspiring stories of their hopes and struggles. They are optimistic and forward thinking. |
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Leadership Character and the Greater Good – Character Matters
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| My most inspiring executive coaching leadership clients know the "why" of their business. They are open, optimistic and forward thinking.
Emotionally intelligent leaders know that creating a workplace culture and climate where emotions are appropriately expressed increases engagement and productivity. In order for people to be fully engaged and happy, they need to feel they are following leaders who inspire them emotionally. |
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Developing High Potential Employees
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| Every company has rising stars - the select groups of employees with the potential to one day lead the company - and most realize that these "high-potential employees" are critical to their future success. The challenge for managers lies in motivating, retaining and ultimately developing these high potentials into leadership positions. Here are some ways for you to address this challenge. |
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Return on Investment from Coaching – Measuring Success!
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| Aligning HR strategy with business strategy is critical, however it is insufficient to make this strategic linkage at concept level and then embark on HR initiatives without a conscious intention to measure the return on investment (ROI) of these initiatives
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How to Read People and Influence Perceptions
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| I've learned in an over twenty-five year consulting career that my most effective executive coaching and leadership development clients are communication catalysts. They are authentic and help people achieve a shared purpose. They are optimistic and forward thinking.
One of my law firm Managing Partner clients recently confided in me that she was having a hard time influencing several of the firm partners on a new strategy for the firm. She logically countered every differing point of view, and yet hours later no one had changed their mind. It was as if the big egos in the room were locked in a battle of who was right and blaming the others for perceived failures. |
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How to manage and motivate a team
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| Whether your organization is a Fortune 500 or the local corner shop a Personal Development Program (PDP) is one of the ways you can manage and motivate your team in the short and long term. PDPs provide a structure and mechanism to evaluate all of your staff – including you – to let everyone know what they’re doing well, what they need to change and how everything they do fits into the overall organisational plans. |
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How to Socially Intelligent Interact with People
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| One of my law firm Managing Partner executive coaching clients recently shared with me that he was having a hard time influencing several of the firm partners on a new strategy for the firm. We have been working on improving his executive presence including talking less and listening more. He is not great at getting others to cooperate with him, and has a fairly authoritative leadership style.
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How to Read and Influence People
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| One of my law firm Managing Partner executive coaching clients recently shared with me that he was having a hard time persuading several of the firm partners on a new direction for the firm. We have been working on improving his situational awareness and ability to read body language.
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Developing Executive Presence - What Really Matters
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| I've found that the term executive presence can mean different things to different people. Asking penetrating questions to gain more clarity for both the client and executive coach is critical to the executive coaching process when coaching a leader to cultivate their executive presence.
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COACHING ACCELERATES SUCCESS
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| Coaching is for everybody. Coaching helps professional growth and career development. Executive Coaching is more widely used to rapidly increase leadership influence and effectiveness. |
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How do you manage a team that is already doing well. What do you bring into the team?
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| What a great question. It is rare that I read something like this and it inspires me to say the least. No doubt, this situation did not occur without much work and intervention (when necessary). |
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Building Executive Presence - Storytelling for Professional Success
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| The term executive presence can mean different things to different people. Asking penetrating questions to gain more clarity for both the client and executive coach is critical to the executive coaching process when coaching a leader to improve their executive presence.
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How to use Search Engine Optimization in your PR Programs
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| The new tool for internet visibility is utilizing Search Engine Optimization. Learn how to use this in your PR program to increase internet traffic. |
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How to Generate Personal Energy - Find a Faulty Story
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| To generate the energy you need to fulfill your greatest desires and goals, you must identify your faulty stories-the erroneous old chestnuts that you tell yourself over and over again. We rarely examine them or question their usefulness. We simply go about our workdays and lives, telling ourselves these familiar tales to convince ourselves that we're OK. |
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How to Keep Your Best Employees
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| During a recent executive coaching session the topic of employee turnover came up. My client shared what has been an ongoing problem in his company: losing star performers. Recognizing the tremendous expense associated with recruiting, hiring and training as well as losses in production and efficiency, he wanted to know what his company could do to keep their best people. |
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The importance of self esteem
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| Having a good self esteem depends on many factors. Everyone is different; each person will need to identify what self esteem means to them and what they want in life and in their career. We are often fooled by the adolescent rose coloured glasses and many (regardless of age), think that they will live happily ever after. Not surprisingly those who subscribe to this myth are often sadly disappointed and spend a lot of time wondering what happened – why didn’t they get what they want and thought they deserved. |
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What it Means to be Brave
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| Do you have what it takes to be "brave" in today's world? |
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I Resolve...
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| Does your company set goals for the coming year? Are you measured (and paid) based upon the attainment of these goals? |
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Leader or Liar?
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| Do you think leaders are liars? A recent PBS show investigated the question - "Are leaders good liars?" According to psychologist Carrie Keating's experiments in human behavior - "the findings seem to demonstrate a correlation between persuasive abilities and dominant behavior." |
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Lonely at the Top
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| Are you "working through it?" Lately it seems that so many people in leadership positions are taking inventory of what it means to be a leader. Some are fleeing the role. |
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Will Someone Please Disagree?
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| When was the last time you openly disagreed with someone above you in your company? When was the last time someone openly disagreed with you? Why has it become standard practice for many to act as drones and nod their heads in unison, even at the most senior levels? |
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How Do You Define Success?
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| The modern dictionary defines success as: to gain wealth or fame. Early American leaders held a puritanical belief that success was a sign of God's favor. Ben Franklin wrote that "the pursuit of wealth was virtuous and would lead to success." |
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We Have an Ethical Dilemma!
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| Our finest business schools are beefing up their ethics programs in response to the erosion of corporate ethics that has resulted in the recent high profile debacles, right? Guess again... |
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Get Your Priorities Straight!
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| Lately, I have been amazed at the answers I get when I query executives about their priorities. Many utter a reference to "objectives" that sounds good, but soon they discover that their answers do not clarify what their priorities are that day. They often are not clear on what actions they need to focus on today that will lead to success tomorrow. |
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Finding True North With the Help of a Child
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| "Dad, I want you to have this" my young son said as he held up a toy compass to place in my hands. "You can keep it on your desk so that you'll always know where you are and what direction to head in." It was one of those priceless parenting moments. |
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Crisis Reveals Human Potential
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| It's impossible to describe the terror I felt as the car began to slide sideways. Even going only 2-3 miles per hour I was helpless to stop the car. |
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I Need You For a Mission!
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| What is your Mission in life? Yes, it's a heavy question but one worth asking yourself. Have you spent time thinking about what gifts you possess and how to utilize those gifts to the best of your ability? |
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Decisions, Decisions
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| Do you ever wonder why decisions you make foster reactions that you never dreamed of? In a Hay Group research brief entitled "Executive Blind Spots," the results of a large survey concluded that the higher executives rose within an organization; • The more they over-rated themselves compared to how they were rated by others, and; • The wider the gap between how they saw themselves and how their peers, subordinates, and managers viewed them. Individual contributors and lower level managers, in contrast, showed no significant gaps between how they and others rated them. |
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The Coaching Fallacy What it is and what it isnt
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| There is much confusion about what Coaching is- and isn’t. Many consulting firms have simply gone through their marketing materials and changed the word “consulting” to “coaching.” For many in the business world, that sums up what they perceive Coaching to be, a new word for consulting.
Nothing could be farther from the truth! |
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5 Kinds of Stories That Create Our Reality
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| Enlightened leaders are able to help their organizations shift its culture from good to great. They guide their people in retelling the history and growth of the organization that fully engages people to create a prosperous future. |
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Executive Coaching For The Whole Person - Your Key To Success Satisfaction
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| Executive coaching is used by many top entrepreneurs to sharpen their skills and increase their productivity. But the best of executive coaching includes a focus on your whole person - not just your business activities. Find out how an executive coach can release your potential to the next level when they include a whole person approach. |
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Homeostasis: The Thermostat Within Us
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| What makes us dig our mental heels in when change is looming in front of us and may even make tings better? What is it that kicks in that drives us to keep change from making things better or worse? |
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Savvy Bosses - The Goldilocks Management Mindset
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| Bosses determine how people experience work: joy versus despair, enthusiasm versus complaints, and well-being versus stress. Most bosses want to be good at what they do, yet many lack the mindset that precedes positive action and behavior. |
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Gritty Bosses - The True Grit Mindset
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| Good bosses are hard working and resilient. They keep employees inspired in good times and bad. Failure is seen as bumps on the way to winning and success. |
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Leadership Lessons: The "F" Word
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| Everyone I know regardless of how high they have risen in an organization can tell stories of foolish, disastrous mistakes that came about from built in biases due to emotions. Studies show that emotions, expectations, social norms, and other invisible seemingly illogical forces shape our reasoning ability.
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A Business Tool That Can Lead to Financial Benefits
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| There's an overlooked tool that is in any businesses toolbox for growth. This review explains what other leaders think. |
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Sales Training Should Cost You Nothing, Nada, Zip
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| Are you researching the cost of sales training? What would you say if I told you that your efforts are in vain because sales training should cost you nothing? Interested? Read on about this different perspective.
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Why Most Coaches Are The Gray Suits in the Sea of Sameness
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| Google the word executive coach and you will find a plethora of websites. Given that executive coaching is still a growing industry, one would think that these coaches would have more business than they could handle. However this is far from the truth. So what is the real problem? If you are interested, read on.
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How Too Many Coaches Are Marketing Using the Square Peg in the Round Hole Approach to Win More Sales
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| Are you an executive coach, business coach, leadership coach, change coach or even a sales coach who is using the traditional sales based marketing because that is why you know or how you were trained? How is that working for you? Do you feel that your marketing efforts are putting a lot of square pegs into round holes? Would you like a far easier way to win more sales? |
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Be a Good Boss - The Provide a Human Shield Mindset
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| My coaching clients repeatedly tell me stories of how a good boss removed obstacles so that they could get their work done with minimal hassle. I could experience my client's level of engagement soar when they felt their boss had their back.
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Coaching Credentials: The Low Down
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| With high return on investments, executive coaching appears to be the entrepreneur's dream. And, many wanna be coaches are putting their dollars in someone else's pockets. Read to learn if such an investment is really necessary?
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Small Business Owners: Where Is the Source for Your Success?
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| Success for the small business owner in many cases comes from outside resources. Read about how one small business owner has transformed himself through 11 simple words. |
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Feel Stuck? Hire a Coach
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| Harvard Business Review reported in November 2004 that annual spending on executive coaching in the United States was estimated at $1 billion. Since that time, the business of coaching has steadily gained in popularity and with any field that grows rapidly there are questions. |
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The What and Why of Executive Coaching
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| Driving the trend for executive coaching is the business reality that good people are hard to find and harder to keep. With a constant need to stay competitive, companies are seeing coaching as a way to help valued employees develop swiftly in a rapidly changing business environment. |
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Using Assessments with Coaching
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| The astute coach helps the person examine gaps between what they believe they do and what they actually do. This is fertile ground for personal growth and development, but is also the area where people become defensive and resistant. Assesments are a great tool to help identify real needs.
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Emotionally Intelligent Managers as Coach
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| Managers determine how people experience work: joy versus despair, enthusiasm versus complaints, and well-being and resilience versus stress. Most managers want to be good at what they do, yet many lack the requisite coaching skills that facilitate positive action and behavior. |
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Increase Sales by Selling Sustainable Solutions that Deliver Measurable Results instead of Benefits
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| Are you still selling benefits? Do you want to increase sales? Then consider selling sustainable solutions that deliver measurable sales results. |
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Executive Coaching or Sales Coaching Is Not New Because It Is an Almost 2,500 Year Old Proven Process
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| Executive coaching or sales coaching is a popular trend of the 21st century. Yet, do you know the roots of this highly effective performance strategy? Maybe it is time for a brief history lesson. |
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Peak Performance for Full Engagement
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| According to research, only 29 percent of employees are motivated and energized. What, then, is happening to the other two-thirds of the people working in organizations?
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Coaching for Performance
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| Improving skills and behaviour is the key to bettering employee performance and the results they produce, says Dennis Roberts, but achieving this is not straightforward when you are dealing with emotional as well as rational beings. |
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It's Lonely at the Top
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| Being an entrepreneur or leader in a small business can be a lonely place. Find out how to get the support you need to be EVEN more successful. |
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Here's a great ROI
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| The business owner or executive who wants to work less and earn more must gain the knowledge of the leadership style to use to develop people and teams to be autonomous. That means that people need to be able to work together and solve problems on their own. And the problems that are the hardest for people to solve on their own are communication problems and conflict. This is the biggest impediment to teamwork. Thus coaching for a leader is necessary to incorporate an organizational strategy that will transform an organization over time from a control style of management to a participative style. |
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How Corporate Culture Drives Engagement and Accountability
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| Corporate culture is critical to an organization’s success. However, when I ask my clients to describe their culture their description is often very fuzzy. |
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Data Points Tell a Story Prospects Buy Happy Endings
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| When your salespeople connect the dots and ask themselves, "what do these data points tell me?" there should be a dramatic tale of woe. If the story is compelling enough, the prospect will pay for a happy ending. |
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How People Experience Work Shapes Your Organization’s Culture
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| You may not realize it, but as a manager or team leader, you create experiences every minute of the day that help shape your organization’s culture. |
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When to Change Your Corporate Culture
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| By definition, your culture produces your results. You cannot expect your current culture to produce new results. It may not be a bad culture; it simply isn't what’s needed if you want different results. |
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Culture Change Begins with Desired Results
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| To accelerate a change in the culture, start by defining the new results you wish to achieve. |
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Coaching Panorama
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| In this study, I offer the definitions of the following methods of human development: What is Coaching? What is Consulting? What does a Consultant do? What is Organization Development (OD)? What is Mentoring? PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC TRENDS: What is Psychotherapy? Gestalt. TA (Transactional Analysis). Gordon. Psychodrama. NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming). Emotional Intelligence. Assertiveness. Supervision.
Based on my own approach of coaching I investigate the following: What is Coaching? 1. Who have “discovered” coaching? 2. Coaching types - business coaching; 3. Coaching is not consulting; 4. The language of coaching; 5. Coaches in the corporate sector, abroad and in Hungary. 6. Competitive spirit, performance motivation in Hungary. |
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Get on the right track with executive onboarding
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| Most organizations offer some level of orientation for new leaders. But without a well-defined plan for integrating the new leader, the risk of poor performance and failure is high. Executive onboarding has grown out of traditional orientation to provide a more comprehensive and systematic plan for helping executives transition into their new role. Onboarding reinforces conventional orientation and training programs with highly focused one-to-one leadership coaching, targeted skills development, and timely objective feedback. The goal is twofold: first, ensure that new executives find their footing quickly and avoid costly missteps; second, help them build effective alliances with their direct reports to ensure continuity and cooperation in achieving organizational goals. |
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PERSONAL AND EXECUTIVE COACHING
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| People from all walks of life use Life coaching to discover real freedom in their lives, to uncover their own answers and to unlock their potential. Personal coaching is a holistic process which considers any and all aspects of an individual’s life and situation.
A Life coach brings all his or her training and experience to the coaching relationship, to help individuals to overcome conflict, to enhance their communication skills, and build better relationships. |
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How to Break Out of the Eight Traps of High Achievers
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| I was recently working with one of my San Francisco Bay Area executive coaching clients – the president of a professional services firm. We talked about how he could break out of the eight traps of high achievers. My executive coaching client and I discussed how it is more important to focus on success and fulfillment than perfection. I am coaching my client to overcome the eight traps of high achievers, and focus more on success than perfection. |
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Bay Area Executive Coaching - Make Good Use of a Coach
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| Mediocrity is the gateway to disengagement and boredom. To sustain high achievement, you need to be continually learning and growing, in spite of uncertainty and anxiety. You need to ask for, and receive, feedback. |
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Your First 100 Days-4 Fast Ways To Shine
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| You got the job. After filling out the piles of paperwork, you have to wonder. Now what? How will you make your first 100 days so powerful that you make a great impression? |
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Boost Your Confidence-Speak Like A Pro
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| Are you fed up with feeling nervous and anxious before any public talk? Are you sick of giving boring, tedious presentations? Are you tired of struggling to give a great presentation that inspires on-the-fence clients to take action? |
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What Nobody Ever Tells You About Presenting
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| Most likely, you’ve heard this advice: people buy from people they trust. The interesting thing is: what do they buy? |
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The 4 Grim Facts Of Life About Body Language: Don’t Go Into Your Next Meeting Until You Memorize Them
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| What’s the story about body language? Nonverbal expressions of the human body are silent signals that say a lot. |
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A Challenge To Women Who Would Never Dream Of Presenting
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| Academic and business presentations can be scary. Job interviews, investor pitches, sales calls all involve presenting. Presenting on video, in person, at a conference or as part of a panel discussion can be nerve wracking. |
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Ten More Compelling Reasons To Hire An Executive Coach
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| All of today’s true business leaders have either created change, or proactively adapted to change happening around them and their organizations. In today's fast-paced business world, executives often feel the loneliness at the top of their company. What is most important for those executives to recognize is that he or she doest not have to go it alone. In fact, more executives are turning to coaches for outside advice and help. Recently I was preparing for an executive coaching presentation to a group of business owners and senior management staff members. I had been asked to make sure I had a list of ten compelling reasons for executive coaching to pass along to the attendees. Here are the ten compelling reasons that I recalled for hiring an executive coach. |
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7 Tips for Reinventing Your Career – Connect on Social Media
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| Like any new activity, reinvention requires practice. It may take a while for social media to become natural and habitual. Practice these seven tips to create reinvention habits: |
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Consciousness Coaching ® - latest trend 2008
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| Executive Coaching is a great tool to support the skill and character development – but what do you do if you find your ego simply resists change? Like the body rejects anything that isn’t it’s own, the ego may reject likewise. Where it is not self discovered knowledge, second hand knowledge might be perceived by the ego as foreign like a splinter of wood by the body. The ego then rejects the affirmation, the great formulas and motivational phrases and gets rid of them whether we object to it or not.
So many seminar graduates and coaching clients are fighting an impossible battle against their ego; the mind says “I am confident, powerful and charismatic” and the ego says: “Yeah right, you fool!” ... |
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Executive Coaching defined
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| Lots of people are intrigued by Executive Coaching as a profession, but do not have the language to define what Executive Coaching really is. This article seeks to clarify. |
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Business Advisors: Results Are the Top Priority
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| If you want to set your consulting and coaching practice apart, you should be able to explain exactly the results you get for clients — and those results should be compelling. But what exactly are results? |
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Take Your Business to Where It Has Never Gone Before By Using a Business Coach or Executive Coach
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| To do you want sustainable business growth? Maybe you need to learn the value that business coaches bring to the table. |
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Executive Wisdom for True Leadership - Finding Wisdom
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| Fortunately, every time we think about wisdom and make an effort to pause and contemplate a potential role for true leadership in whatever we are about to say or do, we move a step closer to achieving it. But unfortunately, many leaders don't take time to consider the larger issues when short term profits are at stake. |
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Executive Wisdom for Smart Decision-Making - Wisdom in Action
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| Prudent decision-making lies at the heart of wisdom but it\\\'s not the whole story. In order to make a smart decision, a wise leader must draw upon intellectual, emotional, and social comprehension. |
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8 Pillars of Leadership Wisdom
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| I was recently working with one of my San Francisco Bay Area executive coaching clients – the president of a professional services firm. We had a collaborative coaching conversation discussing the components of wisdom. My executive coaching client and I discussed how judgment, social intelligence and core values have influenced his ability to make wise decisions. I am coaching my client to tap into his executive wisdom and creativity. |
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Leadership Resilience - The Art of Bouncing Back
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| How we respond to failures and bounce back from our mistakes can make or break our careers. |
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Belief Systems and Results
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| We all carry belief systems that may lead to success and or throw us off course. Many times behavioral weaknesses that are obvious to others (but not to ourselves) are the results of these belief systems. |
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Strategy Based on Innovation
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| One of the most important topics that I discuss with C-level leadership is strategic planning for business growth. |
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Leadership Resilience - Optimism and Resilience
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| Research clearly demonstrates that people who are naturally resilient have an optimistic explanatory style-that is, they explain adversity in optimistic terms to avoid falling into helplessness. |
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A Dashboard for Managing Complexity
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| Leading people and organizations is fundamentally more complicated than it was 20 years ago-and it’s not getting any easier. Economic and global uncertainties, along with innovative technologies, complicate efforts to run a business. |
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Are you Reactive or Pro-active
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| Are you making things happen or are you watching things happen?
Are you taking control of your life or are you watching it go right by you?
These are the questions that we have to ask ourselves, this day and everyday.
I hope you all know what a pinball machine is.
I know it is old school but I still see them around in most arcades.
In a pinball machine you have a little silver ball that gets shot up into the machine.
It then gets bounced from one bumper to the next, it gets pushed.
Then it gets flipped from one side to the other, it goes crazy.
Just reacting to all that is happening to it.
And then finally just falling down into the hole, only to start the process all over again.
How about you?
Do you feel like that pinball?
Are you reactive or proactive? |
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Managing Complexity – A Leadership Checklist
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| Economic uncertainty and globalization, along with innovative technologies provides leaders constant challenges to successfully run their business enterprise. The following checklist can help business leaders navigate complex change initiatives. |
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Putting the Success Books On The Couch: Notes from Dr. Kevin Fleming
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| The self-help industry and success books are a huge bestseller to the American public. Many of the points of the success gurus certainly "make sense". But are all things that make sense TRUE? Read on for this key distinction.... |
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To Coach or Not To Coach: But is That the Question?
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| The coaching field has grown in immense popularity. But do we really know what it is about it that makes it appealing to others? Have we truly utilized the power behind the field enough, not to mention the unregulated aspects about it? check this article out for the 'way it is' about coaching. |
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Inside the Mind at Work – What Really Motivates Us?
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| The topics of performance evaluations and feedback come up quite often in my executive coaching sessions. It’s human nature that people want to know where they stand. I often suggest to my coaching clients that in-the-moment feedback based on progress helps motivate people. It can also help avoid those tense performance evaluation meetings where people can be demoralized and become disengaged by negative performance feedback. |
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Executive Coaching and Debriefing for Corporate Leadership Development Programs
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| In today's management environment, new forms of corporate leadership development programs have emerged. One of the most popular development tools is executive coaching, as corporate leadership development programs frequently utilize these services. However, the fundamentals of executive coaching have actually been around for many years in the form of debriefing. |
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Inside the Mind at Work – Facilitating Progress and Dealing with Setbacks
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| When emotionally intelligent leaders focus on small wins and facilitate progress, employees will find the energy and drive required to perform optimally. |
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6 Tips for Setting Better Client Expectations
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| As an experienced business consultant I see issues with client expectations all the time. Businesses don't want to say ‘no' to customers during the sales process. They don't want to tell a new potential customer the truth about how long, how difficult or how costly it will be to achieve the desired result. They want to say ‘yes' and get the new customer to say ‘yes' so they overpromise. Somewhere down the road, your customer will question the promises you made and start to wonder why their expectations haven't been met. The natural reaction to losing clients is to assume the problem was with them-they didn't give you enough time or enough budget and they wanted the world in return, right? |
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Future Focus - What People Want from Leaders
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| Some leaders are naturally future-oriented; many others excel as executors or talent managers. Still others shine at getting things done and making things happen; others bring out the best in people. |
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How Leaders Develop Future Focus - How Far Can You See?
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| Do you look beyond what’s in front of you - especially when daily tasks take up so much time and energy? How do you become future-oriented and still handle day-to-day challenges?
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The Truth About Who Can Really Motivate A Person According To Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
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| One of my executive coaching clients was talking with me about how complacent and apathetic his employees had become and how lackluster the company’s performance has been this year, compared to the potential that really exists within the staff. This led us into a discussion about whether a leader should be held accountable to, and for that matter, should the leader be expected to “motivate” others. And our discussion led us to agree that it is not the leader’s job to motivate the staff. What? Did that surprise you when you read that? I can imagine that a majority of readers of this article will be surprised. Now, what role does that leave for a leader in business regarding motivation? An effective leader must commit to some primary actions regarding motivation. Here are five (5) actions a leader must commit to do. |
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Developing Future Focus - Sparking Energy for What Really Matters
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| I could not put Steve Job’s biography down. I found it so fascinating because of his focus and passion, and the intense drive in his personality that motivated him to achieve greatness. Steve Job’s creativity and genius for creating products that invent the future is so inspiring. Oh Wow! |
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3 Ways to Grow Your Future-Focus
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| I was mesmerized by Steve Job’s biography. I was fascinated by his focus and passion. Mr. Job’s complex personality motivated him to achieve greatness. Steve Job’s creativity and genius for creating products that invent the future is so inspiring. Oh Wow!
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How to Grow Your Future-Focus - You Can See Forever
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| I loved reading Steve Job’s biography and have recommended it to many of my clients and friends. I was so inspired by his focus and passion. Mr. Job’s driven and perfectionistic personality motivated him to achieve greatness. Steve Job’s creativity and genius for creating products that invent the future is so inspiring. Oh Wow! |
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You’re never too old to learn and grow (I hope!)
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| Are you being stretched outside your comfort zone? Change in the workplace – and in life – is inevitable. Embrace it and learn from it. |
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Is Your Open Door Policy Killing You?
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| What is your Open Door policy? Does it provide time to think, strategize, design and plan? Thinking requires uninterrupted time. Boundaries must be set to create space for uninterrupted strategy time, while leaving room for Open Door conversations. |
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Down Time is Productive Time
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| Operating at high intensity for long periods of time leads to burnout. Down time is crucial to employee morale and productivity. Make sure your team has the opportunity to refresh and renew between periods of high activity. |
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