As I watched the announcement of the NCAA Basketball Tournament parings the other night, I saw what I see every year – analysts and pundits talking about who got the right and wrong seeds, who got snubbed, and what problems caused by the “mistakes” made by the Selection Committee. Later in the shows (both on
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, is moving from a regular newspaper to an online only presence. According to the New York Times this morning, it is the first major newspaper to take this action. Other media outlets will describe this as a sign of our economic times, a commentary on the shifting of the media landscape, and the
Last week in my Powerquotes Plus email, I shared a snippet from James Clavell’s novel Shogun. “To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts,however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline –
One of the best tools for building for accelerating your leadership development is a 360 Assessment. This is true whether you are a Supervisor, in Corporate Leadership or Executive Leadership. Regardless of your past experience, confidence and skill, a leadership assessment is perhaps the single most important next step in your leadership development program. Here are
In my last three posts, I have talked about the differences between knowledge and skills coaching (Just scroll down to read them). Consider this post a summary of them all. To answer the title of this post – “Is all coaching the same?” The answer is no. There is a difference between skills and knowledge.
Over the last couple of days I have posted about some challenges we face when coaching and mentoring. I talked about Why We Coach and Coaching For Knowledge. Both dealt with the differences between knowledge and skills. Today I briefly tackle a major blind spot we face in this area as a leader and coach.
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
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
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
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