Category: Leadership
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Four Signs You Need A Coach
“Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown”, writes Shakespeare in Henry IV, Part 2. Wise executives know that being in charge means making decisions that have significant consequences for others – and that it’s a rough road when taken alone. It is up to leaders to discern for themselves that it’s time to seek…
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Self-Awareness – the Most Important Characteristic of a Senior Leader
You may have heard about the value of developing “self-awareness” and its significant role in effective leadership. A clear perception of your behavior comprising strengths, weaknesses, thoughts, beliefs, motivation, and emotions can positively transform how you contribute to and impact situations and relationships. Leaders who are self-aware bring a new level of energy to the…
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The Traps of Traditional Leadership Coaching
The current executive leadership coaching landscape is a rapidly-changing environment, offering opportunities to excel yet riddled with pitfalls. Traditional leadership coaching can often impede your intended results. Consider the following real-life example. A Board of Directors required Joe (President at a Fortune 100 organization) to work with a coach to develop leadership effectiveness. He interviewed…
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How to Fast Track the Development of Leadership Effectiveness and Company Growth
A CEO who is focused on scaling their company never says, “I want it to take a long time.” They want to know, “What is a faster way?” In order to achieve rapid, sustainable, company growth, the executive must have an effective, sustainable, leadership approach. There is a way for leaders to get there –…
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What is Executive Coaching & Why You Need It
What Does Coaching Mean for Executives? Often executives ask this question and here is the answer: Coaching for execs means making changes so you can evolve and improve. The result is managing yourself and relationships effectively. Think about this in the context of executive impact: senior leadership casts the biggest impact on everyone in the…
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Measuring Effectiveness of Executive Coaching Companies
Here are two real-life examples of how executive coaching companies can do more harm than good and are not all the same. Story #1 – A Tale of Two Coaches Board of Directors required Joe (President at a Fortune 100 organization) to work with a coach to develop leadership effectiveness. He interviewed several executive coaching…
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Understanding The Types of Executive Coaching Firms
Executive Coaching Firms You can’t swing a dead cat without hitting several thousand executive coaching firms/coaches. It is an unregulated, billion-dollar industry. So, it begs the question, how do you navigate? Below are types of coaching firms, along with the most common executive behavioral patterns, impacting businesses today. First, keep in mind if you are…
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Top Executive Coach Says Slow Burn is More Costly Than Quick Inferno
Insights From A Top Executive Coach When I see companies that are still making money despite leadership deficits, it’s a slow burn. Executive leadership thinks the slow burn is caused by lack of performance or output, not behavioral leadership issues. I see this all the time, and it’s because we, as humans (especially achiever-executives),…
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Is the F-word Tripping You Up?
You’ve gotta admit, using the F-word in the title got you interested to check this out. And I’m glad you did, because reading this can significantly shift things for you. The F-word I’m referring to does have 4 letters, but it’s not the one you are thinking. It’s “FACT.” The way this trips you up…
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What Are Limiting Beliefs?
The number one scientifically proven reason we don’t achieve our desires, goals or dreams isn’t lack of money, time, talent, opportunity or even support. Its Limiting Beliefs about our ability to achieve. When we say or think, “I don’t have enough money, time, talent [fill in the blank] to achieve that,” it is a…
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What Leaders Can Learn from the Poker Princess
Recently, I was fortunate enough to hear Molly Bloom speak in Denver. Already being familiar with her book and movie and some research done on my own, I learned some profound things that elevates leadership. While I won’t spoil the movie, know that the Molly Bloom I listened to had succeeded and then failed tremendously…
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Leadership Building While Dealing With The Unexpected
Expect The Unexpected: Leadership building in the midst of real life Oscar Wilde taught us to ‘expect the unexpected,’ and while we will say this phrase a lot, we don’t always think about what it means to truly not be surprised by an unusual event. Now this may seem straight forward, but let’s look deeper.…
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Rest is not a Four-Letter Word
In our go-go-go, always plugged-in society, rest does not garner the value and importance it deserves. I, like many others, learned the hard way about the value of rest and the role it plays in everything we do. Here is just a short list of everything impacted by rest: Appetite, eating habits and choices Weight…
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One Powerful “What If” Technique To Find Solutions
“What If” questions are a powerful tool in the arsenal of unlocking higher performance, particularly in leadership. Often we find ourselves in situations where “what if” questions can literally unlock new ideas and eventually solutions. Consider how often this scenario happens: You (or one of your leaders or team members) are trying to achieve…
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What I Learned About Leadership Through Ironman
The Power of a Coach When I decided to pursue a big, hairy, audacious goal of competing in the Ironman World Championships as an amateur, non-triathlete, my first thought was, “I’m pursuing something I’ve never done before, perhaps I should enlist the help of a professional coach.” I had never hired a coach before and…
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What Is My Purpose and Why Is It Important?
Why Is Finding Your Purpose So Vital? At one point or another, nearly everyone asks themselves: “What is my purpose?” Over the years I have heard this question many times, and it’s an important one to ask. The desire to dive into your purpose can come from a variety of reasons, all pointing to…
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Mindset Shift: Redefining The Comfort Zone
We all have comfortable things in life: yoga pants, hot pizza, the easy 9 to 5 job. Comfort zones come in all forms – from tangible things to physical places, emotional states of mind, jobs, and even relationships. We’ve all experienced comfort zones and frankly, we need to redefine this concept if we’re going to…
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Redefining the Very Nature of What’s Possible
Recently, I completed a self-development course called Landmark Forum. I’ve done a lot of self-development and this was a game-changer! It completely transformed my previously great life to one of endless possibilities that I am creating. To be completely transparent, this course allowed me to leave behind ALL of the baggage from my past that…
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Is Fear Getting in the Way of the Life That You Want?
Fear can be so involved in our daily lives that we don’t even recognize it as fear. When someone asks, “What are you afraid of?” many of you might say spiders or public speaking. Let’s dig deeper though. What about loneliness, death, rejection, or failure? Okay, that was pretty deep. BUT, these ARE things we fear,…
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Is a Distorted View Distorting Your Results?
Distortion When I transitioned from Ironman to Ultra distance triathlons, I discovered something profound. It’s called distortion. And it can be low or high. Let me explain. When I broke my elbow shortly before Ultraman World Championships, in 2014, I didn’t have a moment’s hesitation in deciding whether I would still compete. And once there,…