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Reevaluating Vulnerability: Is it Weakness?

A successful senior leader, struggling in a new reporting relationship, turned to a peer for help. She voiced a desire to work with an external coach. The peer’s response was,…

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Procrastination: How a Coach Can Help

“I’ll do it later. No. Really. I will.” “Why do it today when I can do it tomorrow.”  “Oh, things came up.”  “I got so much done today! But no,…

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Coach with the Playing to Win Framework

Let me start with an honest confession: straddling the domains of strategy consulting and leadership coaching offers me an excellent opportunity to migrate frameworks from one domain to the other. Effectively, both strategy consulting and…

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Shhh, listen!

Four metaphors and several deliberate practices leading to listening mastery Not more than a few months ago, it was still hard for me to keep quiet. A quality of any master coach is the “evocative” silence – the kind…

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Assertiveness & Empathy: Underutilized and Misunderstood

Emotional intelligence is a framework we both actively use in our coaching, and we’ve noticed a pattern over time that many clients appear to overuse or underuse empathy or assertiveness and rarely…

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Navigating Life Transitions

We have all experienced a disruption in the flow of our lives that has shifted us into a season of uncertainty. We find ourselves in a space where we must reorient, learn, rise and transform.…

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What Is Thought Leadership?

As one piece of its expanding ecosystem, the International Coaching Federation (ICF) introduced the ICF Thought Leadership Institute this year as “a global hub of shared knowledge for human development…

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Key Factors to Build, Expand and Sustain Your Coaching Business

When building a successful business, there are many essential components that are indispensable, including the following:  Marketing and sales – creating brand awareness and demands   Product or service development and delivery – creating and sharing our…

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Is Coaching a Serious Business?

If you think coaching is a business to be conducted seriously and devoid of humor, read on – you might be right, humor is serious business!   When I started my…

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Building a Professional Brand Online

Professional coaches have the incredible opportunity to positively impact the lives of their clients. The relationship between coach and client allows for new and creative ways to tap into potential and increase productivity levels for…

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