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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 whose circumstances unexpectedly change and require them to pivot, or someone choosing to make a change (like retirement), there...
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 is a very complex topic. All teams are groups, but not all groups are teams. Teams typically manifest a higher level of...
Creating An Outcome That’s Valuable
In my previous post on creating Intelligent Outcomes™ (vs. S.M.A.R.T. goals), we discussed the first of six key criteria for success. An Intelligent Outcome must be framed in positive terms. It expresses what you do want, not what you don’t. Now for the second success criterion: Valuable. An Intelligent Outcome expresses what matters most. Sound obvious? Why would anyone pursue...
Creating Positive Outcomes
What’s the shortest distance between a goal and an outcome? The answer lies in your question. Helping clients define what they want is one of the coach’s most important jobs. It’s also one of the hardest. Most people haven’t been trained in how to set goals. Even clients who know the old S.M.A.R.T. goals model tend to ramble, delete, or over-generalize when asked the fundamental question, “What...
Five Questions to Break Through Fear
I love listening to the nagging, chronic client complaints that commonly drive coaches crazy. Like fear of failure, lack of confidence, self-sabotage, procrastination, overwhelm, impatience, shyness, not speaking up, habitually thinking negative thoughts. I love listening because I don’t have to listen for long. All I need to do is ask five simple questions and —BOOM— clients break through their fears for good. Instantly. Consistently. Authentically. Would you like to know what those five questions are?
A new approach to conflict resolution
Its long been said that the root of all conflict is unmet expectations. In today’s complex world where we are faced with increasing challenges to do more with less, and to perform duties and meet goals faster with the use of technology, we are naturally faced with many more opportunities where conflict can arise due to unmet expectations. What if you were able to head off future conflict? What...
Transforming Self-Doubt Into Personal Mastery
Everyone faces self- doubt. Anne Hathaway received the Golden Globe Award for her work in Les Miserable referring to the prestigious award in her acceptance speech as a "lovely blunt object that she will forever use as a weapon against self-doubt." (View her speech here if you'd like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdvFhDIVaPM ) Kobe Bryant, arguably one of the most successful basketball...
Coaching A2Qs on NLP
Every coach should have a wide variety of tools at his or her disposal for those times (or those clients) that traditional coaching techniques can't seem to reach. Neurolinguistic Programming (or NLP) is one those tools. In fact, the results I've achieved using what I've learned from NLP were so impressive, I was motivated to become an NLP trainer just so I could share what I know with other...