Posted in Leadership

My client (let’s call him Tom) and I had been working together for about 18…

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What the New Boss Did

Posted in Organizations Workshops

Bottom line: Your coaching clients tend to over-estimate the power of their superiors. Now the…

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Looking Up at The Illusion of Power

Posted in Coaching Organizations

Thought experiment: Imagine that you are Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s (yes, there are two y’s…

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Thought Experiment: Imagine that you are . . .

Posted in Coaching

Thanks to COVID, pretty much every organization a coach visits these days has more stress…

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Coaching for Resilience

Posted in Coaching

Sometimes it helps us have the courage needed to do our work as coaches if…

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Coaches Make a Difference

Posted in Coaching

The word “coaching” usually brings to mind efforts to help individual clients perform better. Maybe…

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Sometimes It’s Not Your Client

Posted in Leadership

This is the last in a series of four blog posts that provide a model…

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More Choices for Leaders: Last in the Series

Posted in Leadership

Want to help your clients make their organizations more profitable? This is the third in…

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Leaders Have More Choices

Posted in Leadership

Our most recent post explained that climate controls 20 to 30% of profitability, and that…

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Leaders Have Choices

Posted in Coaching

Does coaching ultimately increase profits for the organization? Research on that question is tricky. There…

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Coaching for Profitability

Posted in Leadership Organizations

Sheri was a smart, ambitious, and energetic executive. She had lifted herself up through many…

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Organizational Co-Dependency

Posted in Careers & EQ Coaching

Here’s a fictional but realistic story that illustrates what coaching for EQ can look like….

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A Career in Danger