The Career You’ll Love

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:

• Core principles: Trust the client, partnership, possibility, accept/blend/create, and presence
• Emotional intelligence
• Articulating core values
• Core skills: listening, questioning, reflecting, and supporting

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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?

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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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