If Life Coaching is the Answer, What is The Question?
By Suzanne James – Life Coach The question I hear most often is, ‘Why does coaching work? I don’t get it. It is too simple.’ I hear this from clients, and people who are new to coaching. It seems that nothing happens except a bit of journaling and brainstorming in many sessions. It doesn’t look like […]
Delegate More Effectively
By Marshall Goldsmith – Leading Executive Educator and Coach When C-level executives are asked what change they could make to become a more effective leader, one of the most common answers is, “I need to delegate more!” My caution to these executives is always the same: Don’t delegate more. Delegate more effectively. Delegation is not a […]
You’re A Mentor… Now What?
This guest post is by Dr. Patricia Wheeler of Leading News. One of the top targets on my client Reynaldo’s development plan read: Provide effective feedback that helps others improve their performance. Reynaldo, a key global supply chain executive based in Latin America, was in the process of making performance management more robust and accountability-driven. Yet […]
Executive Transitions: The Importance of Relational Intelligence
This guest post is by Dr. Patricia Wheeler of Leading News. The rate of change has never been so intense as we have experienced over the past few years. Business is no longer “business as usual”. A recent Booz and Company report shows that companies across many industries and geographies are hitting the “reset button,” making changes […]
5 Keys to Regroup in the Face of Failure
This guest post is by Carolyn B. Ellis of Brilliance Mastery. Failure and rejection are tough pills to swallow. But sometimes they prove to be the best medicine in the long term. Let me explain. We live in a fast-moving, success-driven, “quick fix” oriented society. Encountering disappointment, under performance or outright failure it is something that […]