How To Succeed When You’re Working With a Coach

If you’re fortunate enough to be working with a coach in your professional or personal life, know that there’s a formula for success with this endeavor. Success starts with the right mindset—a beginner’s mind—and the commitment to listening, processing, and applying and experimenting with yourself and your behaviors daily. In other words, it’s hard work. Here are five additional ideas that will help you succeed:

By |2019-01-06T10:22:02-06:00January 6th, 2019|Career, Emerging Leaders, Just One Thing|0 Comments

Just One Thing: Learn to Fight Your Negativity Bias

We all know people who seem to thrive on the negatives in life. They can look at what is perceived by others as a beautiful picture and spot the flaws, almost taking pride in their role as watchdogs against perfection. Here are 4 ideas and several resources to help reduce your negative self-talk and improve your effectiveness and happiness as a leader and person:

By |2016-10-22T17:11:27-05:00August 1st, 2012|Career, Just One Thing, Leadership|0 Comments

Just One Thing-Do Something Extraordinary for Someone on Your Team

The lowest cost, highest return investment in the workplace is to help move someone closer to realizing his/her professional dream. This is simple and powerful and with creativity, often within your control to pursue for someone on your team. Here are some thoughts on why you should do this and how to get started. Remember, it takes "just one thing" on your part to make a difference!

By |2016-10-22T17:11:30-05:00May 30th, 2012|Just One Thing, Leadership|4 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™: 9 Ideas to Help You Jump the Gap Between Failure and Success

People and teams fail on their way to success all of the time. That’s great. That’s how it’s supposed to work. The people and groups I struggle with are those who just fail. Often, the gap between failure and success appears wide, deep and ominous. This perceived gap keeps people frozen in place for a long while and then as time passes, fear turns to regret. Here are 9 ideas to help you jump the gap from failure to success.

By |2016-10-22T17:11:37-05:00July 11th, 2011|Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine|2 Comments
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