I visited the website featured on a recent newsletter (Click here: :: Authentic Happiness :: Using the new Positive Psychology founded by Dr. Martin Seligman, author of Learned Optimism, and was captured by his latest research on happiness interventions. What does this have to do with coaching, you may well ask. After all, it’s hard [...]
Executive Coaching and Mentoring
The next time you see geese heading south for the winter, flying along in a “V” formation, you might be interested in knowing what science has discovered about why they fly that way. It has been learned, that as each bird flaps its wings, it creates an “uplift” for the bird immediately following. By flying [...]
Leading for Results. It’s one thing to master the technical aspects of a job. It’s quite another to move into the realm of motivating, influencing, and driving the performance of a team, department, or organization. Every new role you take with more responsibility requires different skills. You manage to provide controls: Planning, Organizing, Reporting, Developing [...]
Once you have decided that coaching is the developmental approach you would like to take, the next step is to choose the right coach for you. Recommendations from colleagues are helpful in terms of coaching effectiveness, but coach selection also requires some important personal considerations. Will you benefit more from a coach with an outside [...]
Someone who can innovate and execute is indispensable to employers and is often a skill that leads to entrepreneurial success according to an article by Jonathan Fields (click to read his blog post on the subject). Here’s an excerpt from the post: “Truth be told, though, there’s one person who’s even more valuable than the [...]
Business writers and management advisers are increasingly reinforcing the notion of mentoring. That may explain the recent proliferation of questions I’m getting on the subject. What is a mentor? The easy response is that a mentor provides you with career advice. The mentor who makes a difference learns your shortcomings as well as your strengths [...]
I was talking on the phone today with The Coaching Association Coach John Alexander, past president of the Center for Creative Leadership who now runs a successful executive coaching practice called Leadership Horizons. I mentioned that I had been cleaning out some files and had run across an interview John had conducted in 2001 with [...]