Lessons from My Immigrant Grandparents I had the opportunity to travel to Norway in August. Part of my trip included learning more about my heritage by exploring the areas where my maternal grandparents were born and raised before they immigrated to the United States in 1904. When they set sail from Norway, my grandma and…
Asking for Feedback Doesn’t Work
What High-Performing Leaders Do Differently If you’re a VP or senior executive looking to elevate your leadership, you’ve likely done the thing most well-intentioned leaders do – you’ve asked for feedback. You pulled aside a colleague, peer or maybe a direct report, and asked, “What am I doing well? Where could I improve?” That instinct…
Six Primary Benefits of Executive Coaching
Organizations Invest in Coaching to Help Leaders Succeed Leaders often get all the credit for positive team or organizational results. Likewise, leaders face scrutiny or are deemed the reason for failure when poor or unacceptable results happen. Leaders rise or fall based on team or enterprise results. I was in a coaching conversation recently with…
Strategic Delegation for Leaders
Delegate to Enhance Your Leadership As an executive and leadership coach, I have a unique window that allows me to see into the working world and personal lives of many leaders. I get to hear about and applaud their successes and to listen to and understand their struggles. Helping leaders turn their struggles into triumphs…
Peer Collaboration Fuels Success
Communication Drives Positive Performance Leading a team in any organization is demanding. It requires being vigilant, communicating well, understanding interdependencies, creating alignment, keeping track of progress, and understanding obstacles that may require resources beyond your control. You also need to keep your team engaged and your manager informed. Yet, while you may hit all the…
Top Areas of Focus for Executive Coaching
How Executive Coaching Helps Leaders Grow Growth in your leadership journey usually demands learning new skills and behaviors that were not part of your formal education. People enroll in college or post graduate studies to become skilled in their chosen field (such as accounting, engineering, teaching, etc.). Upon graduation, they enter the initial stages of…
Group Mentor Coaching Program
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The Value of Mentor Coaching
Learning from Coaching Mentors in Your Field By Lance Hazzard, PCC, CPCC and Eric Hicks, PhD, PCC Any way you define it, if you’ve had career success you’ve no doubt had at least one mentor who played an invaluable role in your professional life. And beyond your professional life, you probably count many individuals as…
Overcome Fear to Pursue Your Goals and Dreams
Identify and Set Aside Self-Sabotaging Fears As an executive coach, I help people overcome barriers, both work-related and personal. Many of these barriers are fear based: I’m not good enough; I don’t have the right education or experience; I’m not ready yet, I’m too old, etc. Fear of failure, rejection, criticism, judgment, responsibility and so…
Executive Coaching Fosters Retention and Commitment
Ten Reasons Executive Coaching Works Organizations today focus most of their executive coaching budget on leadership, including high potential leaders and top performers they believe can continue to grow and perform in the future. These high potential leaders oftentimes have career and job options that others don’t, as they become sought after resources within their…