Posts Tagged ‘leadership’
Monday, July 12th, 2010
The Career You’ll Love
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What’s not news?
We’re immersed in news, and it’s possible to lose yourself in newsfeeds of various sorts: TV, radio, newspaper, websites, RSS feeds, newsletters … Your days and weeks disappear as you attempt to “keep up on” current events.
This is giving you an entirely biased view of the world, because events are news precisely because they are unusual.
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Tags: Career Coaching, leadership, learning
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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
Let me have you ponder the difference between these two questions:
- “Why is this problem important?”
- “Why is that problem important?”
It’s a pretty subtle distinction, but potentially quite crucial. Perhaps I’m the boss and you work for me. When we talk about “this problem,” it’s quite close – something that is within our grasp. When we speak of “that problem,” it’s a little more distant, something which is perhaps out of reach. We both might have a little more ownership of “this problem”, but perhaps be more objective about “that problem” because it’s more distant.
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Tags: career, coaching principles, leadership, relationships
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Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
The term Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG) was introduced by James Collins and Jerry Porras in 1996. It’s a powerful concept.
It’s one thing to have a goal that’s practical. Let’s say that I want to save enough money to retire on – that’s very sensible and, hopefully, achievable.
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Tags: career, coaching principles, influence, leadership
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Sunday, May 30th, 2010
On our journey through the stakeholders, people often think that “management” is the easiest one to figure out. But it may be trickier than you think!

I define “management” as the people who are given the power to direct your work, and as such are responsible for whether you do a good job or not.
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Tags: Career Coaching, leadership, networking, relationships
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Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
Why are you here?
It’s one of the core questions of human existence, really, because without any purpose there’s no reason to live. Some people would frame this question as, “Why are WE here?”, but that’s really only motivating to philosophers. It really hits home when you make it personal.
By default, I suppose, I’m here because of the random circumstances of my birth and upbringing. But that only says how I ended up acting the way I do, not that there’s a reason for me to be here in the first place.
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Tags: career, coaching principles, leadership, values
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Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
Everyone’s a leader. No, really!
We often assign the term to people who are in recognized positions of power and authority, but that weakens the term.
If someone is going along with you on any kind of journey, you’re a leader. You are in a situation which you need to exercise some kind of influence over others who are with you on that journey.
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Tags: career, Career Coaching, leadership, organizational coaching
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Sunday, March 28th, 2010
I’ve been fortunate to have a few wonderful bosses over the course of my career. Not just decent, not just good, but truly exceptional people. I’ve also been fortunate that the number of truly terrible managers has been very low.
The truly exceptional ones have treated me with honesty and respect, supported me in tough times, cared about me as a unique individual, and given me challenging and valuable work.
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Tags: attraction, career, leadership, relationships
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Friday, November 27th, 2009
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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Tags: Career Coaching, coaching, coaching principles, leadership
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Friday, November 20th, 2009
How many times do you know what the right thing is to do, but lack the courage to act upon it? Humans are wonderful at rationalizing, at finding creative excuses to avoid doing what’s hard. Myself included, of course.
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Tags: career, coaching, fear, leadership
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Thursday, November 12th, 2009
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.
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Tags: coaching, coaching principles, leadership, my coaching business, organizational coaching
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