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Coaching For Knowledge

In yesterday’s post I talked introduced some thoughts about why coaching and mentoring is so hard. In that post I discussed the difference between knowledge and skills and that to coach effectively we need to know why we are coaching. Are we coaching for knowledge or skills? Consciously or not, once we determine the answer

Why are You Coaching?

Ask anyone to give a list of roles or tasks of a leader, especially in the context of organizational leadership, and coaching and mentoring will quickly rise to the top. This is no surprise, and even the most novice supervisor recognizes the importance of coaching. Any yet for a variety of reasons, we don’t always

Where Are You Investing Your Time?

One of the things we do is help organizations design and implement leadership development programs. We have a variety of tools to help and combine them with customized solutions to create world class leadership skill training from executives to first line supervisors. One of the biggest challenges we – and you – face isn’t the

My Love/Hate Relationship with Process Mapping

Spent some time this week (about 4 hours) building the first of two large process maps. This picture is just a small piece of the process we mapped for the administration of the Remarkable Leadership Learning System. It was a really good meeting (thanks to Andrea and Barb!). We got a lot done in a

A Remarkable Leadership Interview

I was recently interviewed by Brian Oates of Daxle.net for Imprint: Business Author Interviews. In this 15 minute podcast we talked about several important leadership skills including building trust, the important of relationships and we talked about a positive definition of accountability. I wrote this book to be a personal leadership development training tool and

The Power of Expectations

John Steinbeck, the great author, said it as well as it can be said. It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him. The opposite is true too of course. And this is perhaps the most important, yet most often overlooked key to our success as leaders. If

Look for Potential, not Flaws

I was pointed to the Powerlines for Women site yesterday, and read a quote that is certainly not just for women! It struck me as important for anyone at the start of a New Year, but it seems especially instructive for us as leaders. We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room,

Lucky Number 55

Do you Twitter? I’ll admit, I’ve been reluctant to jump on the Twitter bandwagon. Not because I don’t think it’s cool and innovative and a great opportunity to connect with colleagues and Clients. I’ve been reluctant because I knew I would become very addicted to it. Well, I’ve jumped in – with both feet – and

It’s Not Easy Being Green

We’ve all been a beginner at something and looked to someone else to coach us and help us become more successful. Sometimes we find a mentor or coach who is really skilled at helping us, and other times, their experience doesn’t seem to translate to being able to help us very well. It is easy

Sail These Seven C’s to Greater Collaborative Success

Most everyone I talk with wants greater success in some (or many) parts of their life. And however independent you may think you are, no one can achieve as much when they are working alone as they can with the collaborative help of others . . . if that collaboration is truly helpful. You hopefully

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