Recalculating
Recalculating when change occurs is a kind of emothional intelligence.
Do You Go Into Meetings to Win?
Whether you define ‘win’ as ‘win/win’ or ‘I win’ every meeting you attend ought to be a successful use of your time and the time of the other participants. Here are some ideas to consider. 1. Go into every meeting with an objective. At the very least, at the end of the meeting you should [...]
Building Rapport
I got a query from a writer to get some quotes about rapport. Here’s what I wrote back. The way to think about rapport is as an investment. The more one invests in building rapport the more progress they can make in a relationship. As a coach I know that the more I can build [...]
Do What You Do Best & Delegate the Rest
I coach many clients around delegation. It comes up when leadership, time managment, business development, work life quality and conflict resolution are the reason for the coaching relationship. There are many reasons that executives don’t delegate as much as they should. Here are four. 1] Anxiety that the delegated project won’t be done well enough [...]
What Do Coaches Do? Part 2
Here are five more ways a coach can help their clients. Underlying this idea is recognizing that ‘coaching’ is a generic term. These concepts are more specific actions. 6. A coach can be an alarm clock alerting their client that it’s time to do something. 7. A coach can be a beacon by shining a [...]
What Do Coaches Do?
For most of our clients the purpose of coaching is to help them achieve some difference between their current situation and a defined future goal. For example, if a client wants to double their income over three years, we take the difference, [i.e. the increase in their income], divide that number by 36 [months] and [...]
Learning to Lead: Find Your Pain
I’m working with a couple of 20 something clients who are growing into leadership roles. They both need to increase their Trust Radius. We’re at the stage where they both have to practice letting go of the need to be responsible so that others can step up. In one case this is learning to let [...]
