“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…

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…

Coaching Cultures During Times Like These

“The Heart of Coaching” was written to provide leaders and their teams a universal, systematic, and pragmatic way of creating coaching relationships, and then planning and conducting coaching conversations that ended up serving both the coach and the coachee. When it first appeared 10 years ago, the world never contemplated such times as we are…

Role Modeling Personal Growth

Transformational Coaches must role model openness and responsiveness to performance feedback from whatever source. In “The One Minute Manager,” Ken Blanchard called feedback “the breakfast of champions” — an apt sports metaphor. Feedback is the primary way in which professional athletes learn about barriers that limit their performance. Most highly successful athletes hire not one,…

Why Create a Coaching Culture?

An organization’s culture is the collective (conscious and unconscious) attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that define “how we do things around here.” This usually unspoken code of conduct is rarely written down, but often described by the compilation of Core Values that hang on the walls of offices. It is also know as the 800 pound…