This week marks 27 years of service, so we want to thank you for your support and encouragement. It has been a blessing to serve over 100,000 leaders since 1999. Please accept these two small gestures of gratitude: FREE manifestos that address the five factors of Healthy Growth. FREE self-assessments with real-time feedback reports to help you elevate your…
Communication is typically the lowest-scoring topic on any climate or culture survey. It has been that way for decades. During times of crisis or disruptive change, leaders are required to elevate their communication game to keep their teams focused, connected, and productive. These 5 C's of communication serve as a checklist for leaders: Calm Confident Clear Compassionate Consistent.…
As parents and leaders, we tend to focus on teaching lessons to our teams, whether it is a team of employees at work or a team of children at home. In today’s fast-moving and ever-changing world, we must also focus on learning new lessons ourselves. We have learned from our children how to: give grace…
Healthy leaders are great builders. This poem by Charles Franklin Benvegar offers a powerful perspective... As I watched them tear a building down,A gang of men in a busy town.With a ho-heave-ho and a lusty yell,They swung a beam, and the sidewall fell. I asked the foreman, “Are these men skilled,The men you’d hire if you…
Inspiring coaches master their emotions and deal with them effectively. As a result, they are able to keep the main objective in mind and communicate their goal without getting caught up in their emotions. They move from being emotional to being emotionally intelligent. “A leader’s emotions are highly contagious,” writes Annie McKee, a senior fellow…
Business coaching is an inside job. It starts with your knowledge and clarity of who you are; then it emanates outward to your coaching skills and habits. Positive Coaching Mindset×Positive Coaching Habits=Winning Results and Relationships You can see the cultural impact of this new transformative coaching model compared to a traditional coaching model: Every organization…
All the questions in the world will not help your team if you are not listening. You don’t learn when you’re talking; you learn when you’re listening. Excellent coaches are also excellent listeners and learners. Mark Twain said, “If we were supposed to talk more than we listen, we would have two mouths and one…
Video of 8vvE9Dhe9Jk Embarrassingly, this really happened to me! To really listen we must use our ears and our eyes. This was a lesson from my youngest child. There are 12 secrets YOUR kids want YOU to know in Please Listen Up, Parents. It's a practical parenting book written by my three children. Enjoy this…
After our daughter returned from a recent dining etiquette class, we asked her to debrief us. We really wanted to know what we didn’t know on this topic. She shared with me some new learnings. For example, how do you remember how to properly set a table? The utensils on the right have 5 letters…
There are four levels of awareness that inspiring coaches develop to build a positive coaching mindset. Here are a few tips from The Power of Positive Coaching to help you develop awareness of one of these areas: your emotions. Keep a private journal to help you know and manage your emotions.Demonstrate empathy toward the other…
