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The Professional Balance Wheel, Where Are You On the Wheel? Download it For Free!
Trade offs are a natural part of life. The choices we have to make about our work often carry positive and negative aspects. The professional balance wheel helps identify where we are on the wheel of work and life.
It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.—Physician and NASA astronaut, Mae Jemison (first African American woman to travel in space)
Why hire a business coach? 10 Powerful Questions And Reasons Why!
Why hire a business coach is one of the most common questions I get. The dialog and relationship you will establish with a skilled coach will help you answer questions and arrive at solutions that you may not never know if you tried to do so on your own. The confidence you can get from having a coach on your side can give you a tremendous boost!
The Paradox of Teams: Why Team leadership Skills Are Key to Shifting From Independence to Inter-dependence
How good your team leadership skills are, is often the key differentiating factor between getting average and great performance.
“Getting good players is easy. Gettin’ em to play together is the hardest part.”
—Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder and manager Casey Stengel
Passing Your Business on to the Kids? Here’s How to Make Small Family Business Succession Planning Seamless
The tradition of family owned businesses does not get a great deal of air time these days. However, businesses that have a history, often use it in their marketing and it works. There is an inherent trust awarded to a long established family business in the community. However given its value and credibility why is small family business succession planning a challenging arena?
Why Open Communication Is Key to Building Resilience in The Workplace and Overcoming Setbacks
Project failures, lost momentum, and personnel losses are frustrating and discouraging, and they shake every company from time to time. A leader’s response to such setbacks is the #1 determinant of their effect on the future of the business and a core factor in building resilience in the workplace.
Why Owning Your Mistakes Is the Key to Success
No-one likes to fail but history has taught us that when it comes to innovation and success you need to be willing to fail a lot on the road to success. Changing our attitudes around failure can be liberating!
“I have taken more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I have been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I have failed over and over again in my life; and that is why I succeed.”
– Michael Jordan
Applying Hewitt-Gleeson’s X10 Thinking, CVS and BVS Principles to Your Team Leadership
Often, “why” can be considered a challenge, and reactions to that word can be a bit testy. Folks naturally want to defend their current view. If they are not careful, the idea of asking why certain things happen can perhaps lead to defensive explanations rather than thoughtful views of what the situation could become. The worst-case scenario is that people continue to hold the same view and defend their position—without considering ways to improve it.
See How a Certified Business Coach Can Boost Your Team Output by Leveraging the Power of First and Third Person Thinking
I am often asked the question, “What is the difference between running our own brainstorming retreat and working with a certified business coach?” This is an excellent opening to share some vital differences.