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Want to Be a Better Coach to Others? Three Key Lessons

Last week during our Coach and Be Coached Event on Remarkable TV, we had over a dozen leadership and coaching experts talking about the skills of coaching and the importance of being coached. As I reflected on the lessons I heard from these experts three things came back to me time and time again. As

Six Keys to Turning Reflection into Action

I’ve spent some time thinking about the importance of reflection this week, not because it is a new value or idea, but because of all the lessons we received from the Remarkable TV event this week. When we have “big” events in our lives, most of us naturally reflect, if only a little bit, on what

The Biggest Perceived Coaching Barrier

My mind is filled with thoughts of coaching these days. Perhaps it is because in about 2 hours 100 minutes we will be kicking off our Coach and Be Coached event on RemarkableTV.com. One of the things I hear from leaders is that they “don’t have time” to coach. In most cases it isn’t that

Mojo

This week’s Resource Recommendation – Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back if You Lose It By Marshall Goldsmith Some call it a hot streak; others use words like momentum, flow or good karma. Marshall Goldsmith, one of America’s top executive coaches, calls it mojo, and he has

Seven Key Actions to Greater Personal and Professional Development

“What did you learn today?” It’s a question that sounds familiar to most of us. You were likely asked it when you were a kid. And, if you are a parent, you’ve probably asked it of your kids too. But when was the last time you asked it of yourself? “What did I learn today?”

The Quickest Way to Build Your Team

John Wooden, the great basketball coach (and Purdue graduate) once said, “The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.” And we have all heard that one of the best ways to find a new idea or understand a concept is to borrow from another discipline or business.

And/Or? Choose And!

Last week I wrote a post titled Do We Nurture or Build Relationships? I was trying to distinguish between nurture and build as concepts, and I think I was pretty successful. The wise commenters talked about building relationships and then nurturing them once formed. They are of course, correct AND their comments reminded me of an important

Coaching, Love and Belief

If you read my newsletter or follow this blog, hopefully you know about our big Remarkable TV online event next week, Tuesday March 16th from 11 am – 3 pm ET. It is called Coach and Be Coached and is designed to help all of us reach higher levels of performance through, coaching and being

Rules of Thumb

This week’s Resource Recommendation – Rules of Thumb: 52 Truths for Winning at Business without Losing Your SelfBy Alan M. Webber Among other things, Alan Weber has served as Editor of the Harvard Business Review and is the co-founder of Fast Company magazine. In this book he has taken his experiences from these roles and

Five Powers of Coaching

Spiderman, Wonder Woman and Superman all had super powers; they had special skills that allowed them to be super heroes. They had great powers given to them at birth that made them special. Generally speaking, they didn’t have to develop those powers, they just had them. We too were born with tremendous skills, but unlike

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