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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I recently learned about the work of brain science researcher David Rock and it’s application to leadership. Here’s my take on it. Our brains are wired to react to threats. This was very necessary in the pre-civilized world where threats from predators were all too frequent. In the modern world there are no predators, like [...]
On a recent holiday in Ireland I met Derry, a dairy farmer, from whom I learned more about ‘passengers’, a topic I’ve mentioned before. Derry raises and sells cows. To be profitable in that business it is necessary to invest expensive resources, like food, on the most valuable cows and cull the rest of the [...]
In Executive Coaching my clients and I drill down to the bedrock of their opportunity and identify actions they could be taking that would ignite a tipping point for them. These actions tend to be very hard work. I define hard work as doing something unpleasant that moves you toward your goals. In comparison I [...]
As a coach my job is to get my clients doing more of the right stuff and less of the wrong. We figure out what the right stuff is after we clarify goals. The right stuff is a list of the kinds of things a person will do to reach their goals. From that list [...]
