by admin | Nov 5, 2013 | Blog (All Categories), Executive Coaching, Leadership Skills, Self-Awareness
If a genie offered you one wish to help you become more effective, what would you wish for? Many would say, “If only I had more time…” But if you’re like me and the genie is just a dream, you may feel sorry for yourself that there just aren’t...
by admin | Sep 25, 2013 | Blog (All Categories), Executive Coaching, Leadership Skills, Self-Awareness
My dear colleague Sheila approached as I sat in the back of the training room and asked, “Why do you look like you just ate a grapefruit?” It’s true I was disappointed that her debrief of the activity she had just led didn’t seem to go...
by admin | Aug 13, 2013 | Blog (All Categories), Executive Coaching, Leadership Skills, Self-Awareness
I love the irony: Sometimes it’s the leaders who complain the loudest about frivolous spending who unknowingly add the most cost to the bottom line. Years ago I learned of a great example at a southern retailer. When its elderly (and miserly) chairman walked...
by admin | Jul 9, 2013 | Blog (All Categories), Executive Coaching, Influencing, Leadership Skills, Self-Awareness
In a freak accident eight weeks ago, I was hit by a truck and pinned against a highway guardrail. The impact broke my femur in half and fractured my knee. Wheel chair bound for four weeks, I’m now halfway through a 6-month recovery period. Needless to say,...
by admin | Jun 5, 2013 | Blog (All Categories), Executive Coaching, Self-Awareness
As a facilitator of leadership training programs, I’m sobered by research that ranks the impact of training programs as pretty low on the developmental experience scale. At the top of the list: challenging life experiences and adversities. I even see this in my own...
by admin | May 20, 2013 | Blog (All Categories), Executive Coaching, Leadership Skills
I have a leadership-coaching client who engenders well-earned loyalty from his people. Equal part strategic and operational, tough and tender, he defines his role as building and leading highly effective teams. Hell, even I’d work for him, despite my 15 years of...
