Five Steps to Create the Right Opportunity Experiences such as being laid off, demoted, passed over for promotions, stuck in a dead-end position, or working for a horrible boss can contribute to the sense of career chaos. Last week, two people reached out to me for advice or resources to pass on to friends who…
Work Less, Achieve More and Develop Others
Delegate and Empower Your Team I work with leaders across many industries as an executive coach. A common refrain I hear is how busy they are. In essence, they feel they spend too much time fighting fires and working on day-to-day tactics, and not enough time on strategy that will move the organization forward. Basically,…
Team Coaching Achieves Results
Improve Alignment, Accountability and Team Dynamics Executive coaching has proven successful in helping individual leaders perform at higher levels, develop better relationships, and achieve required results. The question organizational leaders are asking is, “How can we accelerate these positive outcomes throughout the enterprise”? The answer: Team Coaching. Organizations that experience value in executive coaching intuitively…
Use Coaching for Growth and Achievement
Four Stages of Coaching I became a believer in the power of coaching for growth and achievement back in 2003, when I had the opportunity to work with an exceptional executive coach. I’m convinced I would not have had the career and other growth opportunities I had were it not for this experience. Coaching’s impact…
How to Maximize Retention and Engagement
Communicate, Listen and Coach to Earn Employee Trust A friend’s son, an engineer who has been working from home since COVID, was recently approached by his manager. The manager stated that leadership was encouraging everyone to return to work at the office. The young engineer, soon to become a new father, needed more work flexibility,…
Six Ways to Grow Influence Without Authority
Grow Your Influence, Grow Your Leadership Power in organizations typically comes from two major sources: position power (direct) or influence power (indirect). Position power is normally hierarchical. It is derived from title, responsibility and authority assigned by place in the organizational structure. Position power also includes budget authority, which enables leaders to fund key initiatives…
Improving Executive On-Boarding:
Seven Essential Steps for New Executives to Thrive New executives hired from the outside typically want to align their leadership team quickly so critical goals can be achieved as soon as possible. Afterall, they’ve been hired by the Board of Directors or senior executives to introduce fresh thinking and positive change. Unfortunately, the rush to…
The Harm in Too Much Team Harmony
Team Coaching Helps Teams Achieve Faster and Better Results Many leaders desire teams to have internal harmony so that work goes smoothly and conflict is avoided. They often double down on this philosophy by hiring or promoting new members to their teams that “fit” into the harmonious culture they’ve worked to create. This may have…
Use Feedback to Gain Self-Awareness and Grow Your Career
Feedback, it seems, is an F-word to many people. It doesn’t need to be. With the right frame of mind and guidance it can be key in developing self-awareness, improving results and growing your career if you act on what you learn. An apt definition of feedback is that it is information about the gap…
Celebrating A Milestone
Seven Strategies Helpful in Building a New Business This month marks the fifth anniversary running my own business. Given the failure rates of new businesses in the first three-to-five years, that’s worth celebrating. Five years ago, I left the corporate world to start my own executive coaching practice. I desired to fully align my purpose…