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Paradigm Shifts
Confidence and morale combined with time, drive and value, initiates a paradigm shift if awareness is included. Generally defined as a framework that has unwritten rules and that directs actions, paradigm shifts are always happening, but many times people may not...
Increasing Awareness and Enlightening Bias with the Communication Styles Model
The Communications Styles Model has been in use for many years and has had many different iterations. Taking this model and using it to create awareness and openness around unconscious bias makes this a powerful tool for leadership development professionals and...
Sphere of Positive Influence and Referential Power
Do you sometimes look at people and wonder how they got to where they are? Many times, it’s because they have surrounded themselves with others who challenged and boosted them allowing them to harness the impact of referential power. Whether you, your client or...
Ideal Engagement
Everyone speaks – but how can you really engage people to listen? Whether you are engaging employees, coaching clients, stakeholders on a project or customers, engaging is about getting and keeping people's attention. It's about giving them something...

Coaching The Pivot
Merriam-Webster defines a pivot as a shaft or pin on which something turns. Making a change in direction, no matter the circumstances, can be daunting to many people. Whether that’s a corporate leader charged with igniting a paradigm shift or an individual...

LEAN Coaching Model
Coaching models evolve over time and all have a great impact on our work as coaches; providing framework and structure to work through the process your client needs at the exact time they need it. In some industries, this might be defined as "just in time"...

Teams and Groups – How Communication Affects Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing & Growing
When one person on a team always has to be right, no one benefits, writes author and speaker Bernard Marr. Stubbornness — the “my way or the highway” approach — gets you nowhere. Consider how your group or team communicates with each other. One of the major...

Authentic Leadership & the Millennial Mindset
Year over year, decade over decade, generational trends emerge in the workplace. Labels are often assigned, and workplace assumptions made, based upon years of experience, when and where someone entered the work place and many other factors forcing people into...

Masterminding as Group Coaching
Mastermind groups are popping up internationally, often led by coaching professionals. This emerging format of group and leadership coaching is growing in popularity impacting coaching globally. Many corporations are creating these groups internally as well as...

Characteristics of High Performing Teams
Beyond forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning, there are a lot of factors affecting team performance to be discovered. Once you've done a little work around creating awareness and empowering teams, the concept of what makes a team truly high performing...