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…
Commit (Don’t Resolve) To Achieve Your Goals
Coaching Helps People Commit and Succeed We are at a point in January when new year resolutions begin to slide. What starts with a firm desire to do or not do something— resolution — often becomes too demanding or limiting. Research supports the idea that new year resolutions tend to falter. One long-term experiment published…
Creating Community for Remote, Hybrid and In-Office Employees
Seven Focus Areas for Positive Culture and Community While the world has recovered from Covid-19, or at least learned to live with it, the changes the virus imposed on businesses continue to demand flexibility. Most notably, hybrid and remote work options are here to stay. Organizations that opt to enforce in-office only environments find themselves…