Expanding the Career Coaching Toolkit
Coaching Trends and Opportunities Coaches help clients expand their skills, tools, and perspectives. We are proud of our abilities to help people becomes extraordinary and…
Communication Skills | Critical Thinking | Engagement | Leadership | Management | Management Styles | Teamwork
Cultivating a Culture of Engagement
The childhood fairy tale of Jack and the Beanstalk leads us to believe that it is possible to toss out a handful of magic seeds…
Communication Skills | Engagement | Leadership | Management | Management Styles | Professional Development
Trends in Leadership Practices
Telling, Selling, Tracking and Engaging It is fair to say that the adage “the more things change, the more they stay the same” does not…
Growing Power Through Choice
You do not have to have a lofty title, sizeable budget, or media coverage to be powerful. Growing power does not require a formal grant…
Reward System Surprises
Charles Morrow’s article, Myths of Management, recounts the “cobra effect” or how reward systems plans do not always produce the expected consequences. During India’s colonial period, Britain…
A New Path to Leadership Effectiveness
Business has undergone a sea of change in the past several decades. Competition, supply-chains, technology, and business models have shifted. Yet, many major corporations still…
The “Price” of Innovation: No Free Lunches
Innovation. The very word conjures breakthrough products, magazine covers, and celebrity status. But those associations are too good to be the whole story. It requires…
Which is More Detrimental: Power or Powerlessness?
This is the beginning of a new series titled Power Levers. Over the next several weeks we will identify and examine seven power levers to…
Working the System Instead of Fighting It
In my last post, “Which is More Detrimental: Power or Powerlessness?“, I redefined the term “power” to challenge common misconceptions and introduced the seven levers necessary…