Confidence is a consequence of doing the right things right or, at least, in an improving fashion. I usually tell my coaching clients that the coaching doesn’t start until we decide what actions they will be taking to achieve their goals. My coaching job is to help them do more of the right actions well [...]
Lombardi told his players during their exhausting practices; “If you quit now during these workouts you’ll quit in the middle of the season, during a game. Once you learn to quit it becomes a habit. We don’t want anyone here who’ll quit.” And he focused and succeeded famously on ‘blocking and tackling’ i.e. nothing very [...]
I came across an interesting thought from Vince Lombardi today. He used the phrase “quiet explanation” to describe one aspect of coaching. I facilitated a workshop on mentoring the other day with a variety of ideas for giving feedback, igniting motivation and dealing with poor performance. I would have added ‘quiet explanation’ to my list [...]
I found this recently in Forbes. It’s a question asked of Stephen Covey and it’s good. If you had to write The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People over again, would you change anything? Explain. I would not. The sequence of the habits is the important thing. To win a public victory, you first need [...]
I’m working on a speech where I have to talk about a friend. When I summarized the events of our friendship the title of this post came to mind. My friend is someone who has a terrific prosperity mentality. It’s easy for them to spend time and money to follow their dreams, or desires, at [...]
I was meeting with a client today who was uncharacteristically very busy. Usually he has 1 or 2 pressing issues at any time. Today he reported five important, urgent and labour intensive projects that would occupy him over the next three weeks, all with deadlines. He’s a business development coaching client so my perspective on [...]
The headline is a paraphrase of IBM’s sales pitch when they were still in the hardware business in the 70′s and 80′s. It was a necessary slogan because, at the time, IBM’s brand standing was under attack from dozens of small competitors, Apple for example, who had better tech but couldn’t match the service network [...]
