Category: Leadership
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We All Get Stuck in Tug of Wars
Recently I was struggling. I was experiencing conflict between myself and someone I care about. I felt stuck and frustrated. The feeling of being stuck began to creep into many other aspects of my life. I wanted to get unstuck but didn’t see how that could happen. I didn’t have the insight to do it…
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The Power of Celebration
During celebrations the stress hormone, cortisol, is reduced which helps you to become more relaxed and cope better with challenges. You can clearly see the benefits to your own sense of happiness when you take a moment to lift up and celebrate others. Celebrations don’t have to be complex or over the top …
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Fostering Curiosity in the Workplace
The same curiosity that motivated child-you to develop new skills and learn about the world is deeply beneficial in your adult life. But too often in life, expertise is valued over curiosity. In the traditional workplace, often those who get rewarded are those who demonstrate knowledge instead of those who practice curiosity.
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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.