September 2, 2010 – 4:03 pm
I’ve been thinking about strategies for a new client who is a new father. While the main thrust of our work is new business development my client is going to have to juggle differently now. I’m going to talk to him about anchors in his schedule to help him overcome multiple priorities.
Dinner with the [...]
August 10, 2010 – 6:35 pm
I was away on holiday last week and played golf a few times. At one point, after having made the same swing mistake for the third time in the last 30 minutes, I swung my club in anger at my golf cart destroying the club.
It was a bit of an expensive lesson. I stopped [...]
An inflection point is a time to take a new hard look at goals to see if a new strategy is warranted.
So for example, if for people in career transition the most usual option is to simply find another job that replaces the one that was lost.
But taking a new look at goals can produces [...]
I’ve been wanting and trying to lose weight. My regimen includes daily exercise including the very difficult ‘pushing my plate away’ and weighing myself every morning. I admit to a competitive mentality so I like to get the score on my weight each morning to see if I’m winning. More importantly weighing in each day [...]
April 26, 2010 – 11:55 am
You may have heard the line “snatch victory from the jaws of defeat”. It something many people try to do when they test limits. They may do it in relationships to see how far they can go or with time management when they see how late they can leave a project. I think people are [...]
I’ve been impressed by the depth of honesty Tiger Woods provided in his recent press conference. He went well past I’m sorry and into levels of empathy for all the people he’s hurt: family, friends, people who work in the golf industry, his support team and kids who looked up to him. He’s given us [...]
In my last post I made that point that the best marathon runners succeed with Conscious Competence. They pay very close attention to all aspects of their runs. They plan how long each mile will take. They plan how much liquid they will consume. They visualize, rehearse and are focused. If they were Unconsciously Competent [...]
I think there are three levels of performance among marathon runners. The professionals who do the very best are elite athletes. They train both mind and body to work optimally and consciously. They succeed via conscious competence. The very best amateurs probably compete adding some degree of ‘flow’ to their very good conscious competence but [...]
As I write this it is a surprisingly warm early March day. I’m reminded that for the next six months my schedule is going to include lots of golf which, while pleasurable, is going to eat up a lot of hours. About 15 each week if I play twice. That means I’m going to have [...]
February 17, 2010 – 9:13 pm
I thought this to be a wonderful idea about how coaches help their clients. See my posts of 12/14/09 and 12/21/09 for more about what coaches do. This thought came from Kathrin Krönig who is an executive coach in Germany and Canada.
Quite often with meeting and relationship issues we muddle thru to an OK result. [...]
