(This post is excerpted from The 5 Coaching Habits of Excellent Leaders.) Making early decisions about your priorities provides a double benefit for boosting your personal reliability. For example, you might say that your order of priorities for how you spend your time might be family, work, friends and community. Making that early decision about…
(This post is excerpted from The 5 Coaching Habits of Excellent Leaders.) The past two posts have addressed the keys to Personal Reliability which provides a booster effect for Reliable Coaching. In other words, if you are seen as personally reliable, it is much easier to use the 5 coaching habits of excellent leaders. The…
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(This post is excerpted from The 5 Coaching Habits of Excellent Leaders.) In addition to knowing yourself, having clarity about your priorities also predicts your personal reliability. The most important decision in business, and in life, is to decide what’s most important. So, as a request or an opportunity arises, ask yourself if this is…
Success is a reflection of your commitment to excellence. Just as water reflects your image as you gaze into it, when you look inside yourself, you see who you really are. Your knowledge and success with others is directly related to your self-knowledge. Excellence is built from the inside out. Therefore, reflect on who you…
(This post is excerpted from The 5 Coaching Habits of Excellent Leaders.) Observe all men; thyself most. - Benjamin Franklin The most valuable type of knowledge is self-knowledge. Knowing your tendencies, preferences, values, personal limits, natural gifts and weaknesses helps you make the right commitments and keep them. Aside from personal introspection, a good way…
"When all is said and done, more is said than done." – Aesop, Greek storyteller and author, Aesop’s Fables Reliable people have a high say/do ratio. That’s the ratio of things you say you will do to the things you follow through on and do. In a perfect world, your say/do ratio is 1:1, meaning…
Video of 1sv_PZDoxfE Today we have more of most things ... except some really important things. Try these 7 simple ways to stand out in today’s complicated world: Say please and thank you. Mom’s magic words mean more today than ever. Do what you say you will do. Honor your word ... always and in…
It has been five months since my father passed away. He was 84 years old and had Alzheimer’s. I talked to him every day on the phone as we lived 1,000 miles apart. I awoke last night with a feeling of emptiness and realized, “I miss talking to my dad!”. My conversations with Dad were…
Speed. It’s a simple, yet sometimes mind-boggling concept. Consider this the next time you hit “send”. An email travels 3,000 miles from Los Angeles to Maine in just 2.4 seconds miles while switching servers 53 times! Been to the grocery store lately? A laser bar scanner at your local grocery store scans the product barcode…
