Starting off with a plan; getting off on the right foot.
Most organizations need their managers to handle changes and transitions quickly and effectively. They need to integrate into the company, come up to speed in new roles, handle promotions and provide value as quickly as possible.
A performance coach can help.
That’s because coaching is a customized [...]
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Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s contributions to the business of work discourse are usually good, but the March 1, 2010 post on the Harvard Business Review site (www.hbr.org) was exceptionally relevant and inspiring. Her focus was on “Getting Americans Back to Work.”
Small and Do-able Ideas
Great, lots of people are writing about that topic with big ideas and [...]
He said that he was impatient, hard driving, focused, bottom-line. That he had trouble with people who wanted to think aloud, taking everyone’s time, noodling about what ought to have been immediately clear to everyone present. That his idea was good, it was the right thing to do and the right time to do it. [...]
TCA Executive Coach, Mary Kralj found the following new free resource for our readers.
Mary recently attended a conference for I/O Psychologists where IOatWork.com, a publication review site, was announced.
The site provides quick, easy-to-read reviews of recent I/O and consulting psych research from more than 20 journals, allowing you to stay up to date on the [...]
Seth Godin has been posting videos about the concept of indispensable people as part of his new book Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
To see a cool video of Jacqueline Novogratz describing how she recognizes a linchpin, click here: http://vimeo.com/9566384.
Jacqueline is the founder and CEO of Acumen Fund (acumenfund.org) a fast-growing non-profit that is pioneering the idea [...]
TCA Coaches Donna Riechmann, PhD and Geoff Grenert, MBA have been recording their conversations about teams, team building and team development for the benefit of our readers. Here’s the latest of their dialogues.
Today’s topic is team chemistry – what makes a team click?
Geoff: What makes a team “click,” when the team is achieving its [...]
Two TCA Executive Coaches, Geoff Grenert, MBA and Donna Riechmann, PhD captured a recent conversation they had about starting up new teams.
Here’s what they had to say:
Donna: If you were giving advice to a new team leader, what would you tell the person to be sure to do to get off to a good start?
Geoff: [...]
It is always a pleasure to find new resources, perspectives and insights. I was lucky enough to participate in a recent telephone session on how we feel about money with Master Certified Coach, Michele Woodward. Because the session was both informative and engaging, I took some time to read more from Michele and I thought [...]
Executive coaching has become very popular. An executive coach provides one-on-one assessment, evaluation, feedback, problem solving, and advice to a leader. The goal is to increase self-awareness, identify areas for improvement, and develop an action plan to enhance personal and leadership effectiveness. The “coachee” can be at any level in an organization but typically is [...]
A new resource called I/O at Work has started publishing reviews of various articles, books, and other publications in the field of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. A recent post is a review of Hidden in Plain Sight: The Active Ingredients of Executive Coaching by McKenna and Davis.
The take-away messages from reviewer Samantha Paustian-Underdahl are:
Although there [...]
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