Here’s an idea I’ve been promoting for many years, but it’s more true than ever. On Richard Everson’s blog he talks about the importance of focusing on your strengths, and using that as a launching pad for your career and business success.
Good stuff, worth reading and thinking about.
I’ve been having difficulty recently with some people in my life – people in positions of power. This is in a context of a volunteer organization, but it holds just as true in business.
The two most motivating words are: “Thank You.”
Read more on my Workbloom blog»
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Join us on January 20th for this skills-focused work session where Carl Dierschow will explain to us the five powerful principles of Leadership Coaching. This will change the way you coach those who work with you – both as a team and as individuals. Your group will see increased focus, clarity, and creativity as a result of applying these principles.
As a champion of human development for your organization, these principles will also help you to develop future leaders who are expert at aligning people to create a future they never thought possible. We’ll have a chance to practice new skills with dynamic exercises, and build powerful intentions for change in our key work relationships. Carl Dierschow is a Certified Small Fish Business Coach located in Fort Collins. He has over ten years experience in organizational coaching, having created and led the internal community of practice for coaching in Hewlett-Packard. Small Fish Business Coaching provides assessment and business management coaching for owners of small businesses who want to rapidly accelerate achievement of key business goals. Date: Thursday, January 20, 2011 11:30 am – 1:30 pm |
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As you might know, I was in London this week attending the followup class to the Coaching Fundamentals class I took back in September. That class was, in essence, the high level overview of the process, so the last few days were much more deep study and practice around some key areas:
I had a chance to attend a fantastic workshop this morning, led by the incomparable Gus Lee. Never heard of him? He’s a leader in challenging people to find and develop a core of character in their lives.
Read more on my Partnering in Possibilities blog »
In setting up my new business, one of the toughest challenges so far is picking a company name. I’ve been (kind of) working on that for a month now, but have really been putting concerted effort behind it for the last week.
Why is it so difficult?
As a manager, if you focus on the employee’s agenda when you’re coaching him or her, how do you ensure that the company’s agenda is being addressed? Let’s focus on this balancing act for a minute.
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