You have management challenges that consume your energy? Your sleep is disturbed? There are mornings when you would prefer to be a lifeguard at the local pool rather than deal with management problems? You could take advantage of these management issues and convert them into professional development opportunities! As leadership coach, I notice that some [...]
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“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face” – Mike Tyson A Facebook friend posted this update and it got me thinking. Once my brain was done generating a mental image, I started wondering about the various ways people react to the proverbial punch in the face. As a leadership coach, I [...]
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Leadership skills are not evenly distributed. Some of us are natural born leaders, while others prefer to follow. Still, anyone can become a better leader with a bit of hard work, regardless of how developed his or her leadership skills are … What makes a good leader? [pdf document, 13 Mb] My interview with [...]
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During a recent coaching session with my client, Maria (not her real name) shared with me how impressed she was with the progress she made, in less than 4 months, working with a coach. Maria had originally signed up for a free coaching session in order to discover what coaching really was. Pleasantly surprised with the [...]
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During a recent coaching session with one of my clients regarding his career transition, he told me how hard he found it to change the way he thought about things and, as a result, the way he did things. Albert Einstein is credited with saying that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing [...]
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Last week, I had the wonderful pleasure of attending Thwarting the Inner Critic, a 2 days training to detect, discern and find liberty from our inner critic’s hold on us. To be honest, I attended this training not only to improve my competencies as a coach, but most importantly to help me deal with my own [...]
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Between work and family obligations, we always seem to have something on the go – some job we have to do, some responsibility we have to meet, somewhere we have to be. Which may make the idea of keeping a journal seem somewhat impractical – and perhaps even a little “old school.” With all the [...]
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As the year draws to a close, we are all very much in demand: there are office parties to attend, wish lists to fill, frantic errands to run, year-end projects to finish, family and friends to visit, Boxing Day sales to take advantage of, New Year’s resolutions to ponder… and so much more. Are you [...]
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Training programs aren’t necessarily the favorite part of a manager’s day. If we’re going to devote our otherwise normally productive time toward training, it’s vital that training does something toward making us better leaders. The unfortunate truth is that traditional training programs aren’t always engineered to make you a better leader. With that in mind, [...]
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In a recent blog post, my new partner Martin wrote: “Analyzing your personal motivations and your deep-seated values and determining whether they are consistent with your current job is a difficult thing to do – a very difficult thing to do. […] many people tend to maintain the status quo out of habit, out of a [...]
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