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…
Read More(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…
Read MoreCreate 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…
Read MoreHow 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…
Read MoreFarm 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…
Read MoreWe 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…
Read MoreThe San Diego Professional Coaches Alliance (SDPCA) will be hosting Tom Crane on June 10, 2013. His presentation will be focused on how “Collegial coaching” can bring value to your coaching business and your clients. Last year Tom presented information on how “coaching” cultures differ from “coached” cultures, and how Professional Coaches can offer more…
Read More7. 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? In recovery circles that call that “working on the wrong side of the street.” Do you know anyone who got married and believed they could change their spouses? Odds are they are not married today.
Read More4. 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 able to embrace fully what is. We end up being more clear-headed in the process.
Read MoreDuring 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 to us from all corners of this planet. They include spiritual awareness practices, states of mind, levels of thinking, and wellness and life balance practices that have been around for a long time. They represent “practices” – covering both the “beingness” and “doingness” side of our life experiences.
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