Executive Coaching Leads to Positive Results Clients new to executive coaching enter the initial meetings with varying expectations. They likely have had mentors before, and many expect that coaching will be similar. They quickly realize it isn’t. Mentors usually have professional or business experience that the coaching client can benefit from by asking for insights…
How Coaching Can Be Used as Part of a Leadership Development Agenda
Coaching Activates and Retains Learning and Development Leadership development in most organizations takes the form of structured learning. Leaders move from their job environment to a formal classroom experience where they are exposed to ideas and thinking delivered in a variety of channels. These channels include traditional classroom, virtual learning, micro learning (or bite-sized learning…
DRIVING AWARENESS WITH THE RIGHT ASSESSMENTS
Using Assessments to Benefit Coaching Clients and Organizations Why Use Assessments? Organizations use assessments for a variety of reasons. Pre-employment assessments are the most popular, but over the past several years many more assessments for leadership development purposes have become commercially available. Executive coaches use a large variety of assessments depending on the issues which…
Why Coaching Adds Value
Six Primary Benefits of Coaching As executive coaches, we are often asked three questions about what we do for a living. While there are many variations, the theme is usually the same: “Isn’t coaching for people who are not performing well or just aren’t good leaders?” “How exactly do you coach people when you don’t…
Overcoming Your Inner Critic in Career Decisions
Six Steps to Confidently Move Towards Your Desired Future Are you your own worst critic? If you are like many individuals, your answer to this question is a resounding, “yes.” This can be especially true when it comes to career growth. I get it. There were times when I was growing my human resources career…
A Career Is Not A Spectator Sport
Do You Want a Job or a Career? Only about one-third (34%) of employees are actively engaged, involved and committed to their work, according to a 2018 Gallup report. Many reasons exist for low engagement at work, ranging from how your manager treats you, the security of your employer, your position, the opportunities you have…
Seven Attributes of Amazing Team Leaders
Delivering Results Through Teamwork In today’s workplace, most initiatives, programs and projects succeed or fail based on how teams deliver on the work involved. Each member plays an important role on the team, and team leaders have the unique responsibility to ensure that the team delivers on the expected results. Leaders who consistently succeed do…
How Perspective Can Limit Our Vision
Seven Questions to Broaden Your View to Achieve More This month, my hometown of Minneapolis will set a record for February snowfall, shattering the former record set in 1962. The big picture view is stunning: a fluffy white blanket that sparkles in the sunlight, pine trees, oaks and maples laden with snow, and mounds of…
Not in My Job Description – Act Beyond Boundaries to Achieve Career Growth
Have you ever been on the receiving end of someone telling you, “That’s not in my job description?” How did that make you feel? From a job description perspective, they may have been right. From a career advancement perspective, they may have been dead wrong. Job descriptions frame the duties, general responsibilities, expectations, education and…
No One Likes to be Should Upon
Do What You Decide is Best, not What Others Say You Should Do How do you feel when you’re given unsolicited advice? We’ve all received this so-called “gift.” While it may have been well meaning, it’s likely to be ignored unless it resonates. More than 20 years ago, I was in a company leadership meeting…