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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…
Leadership Team Retreats and Coaching
Four Benefits of Team Coaching That Drive Results Much of my executive coaching practice involves coaching leadership teams and/or some of the individual leaders on these teams. This work includes facilitating leadership team retreats and coaching, along with other coaches, members of the team in a series of one-on-one sessions. I’ve found that team coaching…
Executive Onboarding – A Catalyst for Positive Impact
How to Thrive as a New Leader Executives hired into new positions need to quickly assess and adapt on multiple fronts: new boss, team members, peers, expectations, etc. Add in learning a new organizational culture, industry and competitive markets and it’s no wonder that approximately 50% fail in their first 18 months on the job….
Why Networking Matters
Build Your Network for a Bulletproof Career Porter Gale, author of Your Network Is Your Net Worth, said: “I believe that your social capital, or your ability to build a network of authentic personal and professional relationships, not your financial capital, is the most important asset in your portfolio.” During times of job loss or…
Make Career Chaos Work for You
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…