“EQ and Coaching” Interview

For over 25 years, I have consulted with organizations by showing senior leaders and their teams how to create and conduct effective, highly accountable, coaching conversations between colleagues who work together. We use our proprietary assessments in our workshops, that now support 4 days of rich coaching skill development content – a 2 day Core…

The Art of Leadership & Riding a Bicycle

(AKA – Helping the Organization Get Where It Needs To Go!) Let’s demystify the art and practice of leadership. There are many parallels to the aspects of riding a bicycle and leading the team. First of all, the purpose or usefulness of the bicycle is to get from point A to point B. Clearly, leadership…

The Engagement Cycle

Create the cultural conditions for engagement with The Engagement Cycle Leaders today know that employee engagement is the key to high performance, so let’s look below the surface and see what’s really involved in creating an engaged workforce. One definition of engagement includes both the aspects of emotional involvement and commitment. You will want to keep those two…

Culture is not HOW WE DO THINGS!!!

How many times have you heard the phrase “Culture is how we do things around here.”? It seems to me that this catchphrase has evolved to provide us an easy way to think about culture. I invite you to think more deeply about the important topic of culture. How we “do things” actually is more…

Client Business Case for Coaching Culture

Farm Credit Mid-America A Business Case for a Coaching Culture January 2014 Executive Summary: This business case is constructed to capture the essential journey that one client financial services organization chose to take with the express purpose of strengthening its culture to better support its strategic objectives. It chronologically describes the developmental process that was…

The Heart of Coaching Certification Benefits

We are holding an Open Enrollment Certification in August. This is an opportunity for organizational consultants, group facilitators, and executive coaches – all of whom work in organizations of all kinds – to add a powerful toolkit to their personal skills and capabilities. Through the week-long experience, we provide all the consulting and facilitation tools…

Human Practices that Connect Us III

7. Peace/serenity/acceptance. These ideas relate closely to number 4 above. The Christian bible offers the “serenity prayer” as a way to find peace by focusing on the things you might change in your life. How many among us are too often engaged in meddling where we don’t belong or in trying to change other people?…

Human Practices that Connect Us II

4. Surrender/acceptance/embracing. Buddhists insightfully describe suffering as seeing how things are and wishing they were different. More time spent in surrendering and accepting things exactly how they are is exactly the path to ending suffering. That does not mean that we stop working for meaningful change. We suffer less along the way, and are better…

Human Practices that Connect Us

During extra-ordinary times like these, stronger than usual stresses and strains pull on us from all directions. It is easy to get caught up in the economic trauma of the day, and potentially lose sight of who we are, and what is truly important to us. These ideas below are a compilation of wisdom coming…