by admin | Mar 19, 2013 | Blog (All Categories), Executive Coaching, Leadership Skills, Self-Awareness
Leadership coaching clients are often advised to leverage their strengths. This is sometimes interpreted to mean ‘keep doing what you are doing, but do it more…’ Yet clients are also counseled that if overused, those strengths become weaknesses: assertiveness leads to...
by admin | Mar 4, 2013 | Blog (All Categories), Executive Coaching, Leadership Skills, Self-Awareness
The conference room was a mess. Participants were starting to arrive and the tables were scattered haphazardly about the room. Our materials for the two-day session were still in boxes in the corner of the room. My partner Rob had been there since 7:15 and he had not...
by admin | Feb 6, 2013 | Blog (All Categories), Executive Coaching, Self-Awareness
In my practice, I often coach “high potential” executives, so named because they’re part of a select pool of talent from which a company’s future leaders will be chosen. As is typical in these coaching relationships, one of my key roles is to listen deeply. I hear a...
by admin | Dec 12, 2012 | Blog (All Categories), Leadership Skills, Self-Awareness
Too many leaders make fast (and wrong) decisions in the face of disagreement. They trust their own thinking, and then justify their decision based on what they interpret as positive results. Yet they fail to consider the cost of rejecting an opposing view that would...
by admin | Nov 28, 2012 | Blog (All Categories), Coaching skills, Executive Coaching, Self-Awareness
Recently, some friends in Asheville, NC introduced me to the River Arts District where I discovered an unexpected nugget of wisdom. Here, amid a collection of art studios down by the French Broad River, I had an encounter with a prolific, internationally known painter...
by admin | Nov 13, 2012 | Blog (All Categories), Executive Coaching, Leadership Skills, Self-Awareness
We cannot help be but who we are. This hit home recently when I reviewed a 360-degree feedback report with the new president of a high tech company. Catherine’s vice-presidents viewed her as a passionate, brilliant, credible yet compassionate leader – a rare and...
