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Curiosity: The Secret Weapon of Great Coaches and Leaders

Genius extraordinaire Albert Einstein was attributed to saying, “I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.” Einstein was clearly onto something.   Research has shown that curiosity is…

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The Role of Creativity in the Coaching Process

Creativity is defined as the ability to generate new ideas, solutions and possibilities. For the work to be considered creative, it needs to be both original and effective in achieving a specific…

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5 Ways to Further Your Coaching Career (When You’re Feeling Stuck) 

Coaching can be a very rewarding profession, especially if your work yields good results for your clients. But no matter how great your results, no one is immune to becoming…

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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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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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The Future of Coaching: Making an Impact in a Virtual Work Environment

As work is poised to become largely remote, coaching too needs to evolve. In an asynchronous work environment, employees are distributed across varied time zones and their in- person interactions are minimal.  Hence, the practice of “coaching-by-appointment” needs to shift to “coaching-on-demand.” To accomplish this, the…

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Virtual Networking Tips and Tricks

What exactly is networking anyway? In the professional sense, it’s meeting new people with the intent to exchange information and develop a mutual and helpful relationship. It seems easier for…

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Coaching and the Military: Adding the Coach Approach to Leadership

Military leadership is often considered one-way communication, where orders are given at senior levels and trickle down through the ranks without question or discussion. While tactical communications do exist while…

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Coaching Supervision

Coaching supervision offers coaches an opportunity to access continuous professional development through reflection and dialogue in a safe, supportive and confidential space. If we look closer at the word itself:…

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