Category Archives: Executive Coaching
Leadership Survey Results
We recently sent out a survey soliciting input on what individuals believed were the order of priority for 5 critical leadership qualities. The qualities, from NYT article Distilling the Wisdom of CEO’s, are “Passionate curiosity”, “Battle hardened confidence”, “A simple … Continue reading
4Sights Episode 8 – ABC of Positive Change
Episode 8 of our podcast series focuses on answering, “what do you believe causes personal change for leaders?” Here, Eric discusses the three critical elements for improving one’s leadership effectiveness. Podcast Powered By Podbean
Google CEO on executive coaching
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What EXACTLY is coaching?
While executive and leadership coaching share many features with the coaching that managers provide for their employees, there is at least one critical difference. As a manager, you are responsible and accountable for the outcome of what your employee does … Continue reading
Do Managers Who Coach Improve Profitability?
I recently asked a CEO how many people work in his company and he replied, “About half of them.” The Gallup Management Journal’s semi-annual Employee Engagement Index survey of 4.51 million employees in 332 organizations shows that he is (unfortunately) … Continue reading
The ABC of Change
I was interviewed about helping leaders make positive changes through executive coaching. One of the questions really captured my attention, “What do you believe causes change?” Through 12 years of coaching intelligent and mature executives, and over my own lifetime … Continue reading
Vertical or horizontal, which way do you lead?
Vic, after 22 years with his company, was just promoted to executive. Congrats, Vic, you deserve it! Vic is ambitious, empathetic, a wicked-good problem solver, long term thinker, and driven by healthy competitiveness. Vic is now VP of operations. In his previous … Continue reading
Do You Listen “To” or Listen “For”?
Recently we were delivering training to a group of executives who are committed to developing their internal leadership talent by personally facilitating monthly learning forums. As part of the training we had them each complete our Coaching Skills Assessment to … Continue reading
Ten Insights for Conquering Fear
I don’t believe there is real ”fear of the unknown.” Over the past decade, as I’ve asked people what about the UNKNOWN frightens them, they have always listed KNOWN fears such as pain, loss, embarrassment, death, rejection, etc. The Unknown acts … Continue reading
Perfectionism, is it achievable or treatable?
One of the assessments we use for understanding someone’s thinking and decision making is the Thinking Pattern Profile. In the individual report provided it will often times describe someone as “perfectionistic”. This descriptive adjective shows up on many of the … Continue reading