Category: Leadership
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Is your communication style secretly holding you back?
For a long time, it was commonly believed that communication style is something a person “has” or “doesn’t have”. Companies weren’t interested in helping people develop these skills. I am here to tell you that with the right coach and mentor, you can absolutely build on your communication strengths and close your communication gaps.
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Are You and Your Team *Really* Coaching?
For the majority of us who work with and on teams, authentic coaching skills are a necessity. More businesses than ever realize how critical coaching is to success. Yet the number of professionals who understand what authentic coaching truly is, remains quite low.
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Framework for Answering Unanswerable Questions
There are going to be times when you are faced with answering an unanswerable question. Maybe it is from one of your children, or a friend, a co-worker, a boss, or a direct report. This Navigating Challenging Dialogue® tool applies to any situation where you are faced with providing answers to a situation or question that…
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Coaching Your Team
Coaching doesn’t always happen one to one. As a team leader, you can deploy group coaching to enhance and improve team outcomes. When you use coaching questions with a group, you are modeling the behavior you desire in others. Getting comfortable with using coaching takes nothing more than learning authentic coaching skills, self-awareness, practice, and…
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Coaching Peer to Peer
When you hear a peer struggling to solve a problem or make a decision, you can simply ask, “Hey, I hear you are struggling with this. Would you like a little coaching to help uncover a path forward?” And then accept the answer. In a coach:coachee relationship, both participants are equal. You don’t have to…
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The Power of Gratitude
With the help of a therapist, I started noticing when my thoughts were of lack or resentment, and then pausing to consider what I was grateful for within it all. It was uncomfortable and unpleasant in the beginning. This intentional practice requires new neural pathways and patterns to be built, much like building a new…
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How to Turn Around Chronic Complainers
Chronic complainers are exhausting. They deplete the energy of everyone around them. The challenge is that they often don’t see themselves as complainers. But nevertheless, a chronic complainer must be dealt with before they bring down an entire team.
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Recommended Listen — Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic
This week’s post is brief on purpose because I’m sharing a podcast interview that I think is important that we all listen to. The interviewee is Dr. Paul Conti, author of “Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic: How Trauma Works and How We Can Heal From It”. Full disclosure, I’ve not read the book yet, but when the…
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Looking Towards 2024
It is the time of year when we, as a company, and me as an individual, reflect on the accomplishments of the year. A few weeks ago, Beth Wonson & Company had our annual reflection and planning event. As we had dialogues, looked at numbers, talked about impact, and shared what work truly felt impactful,…
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Sharing my Coaching Takeaways
Today I’m sharing my takeaways and learnings from a few weeks of intense client work. I’m hoping that you may find them helpful as you navigate challenging dialogues!