The Pros and Cons of Internal and External Coaches How to Choose the Best Option for You Should you use an internal or external coach to help develop your managers and leaders? As part of this month’s theme on developing teams that think more strategically, the question of using internal coaches or external coaches came…
How to Build a Team that Thinks Strategically Getting Your Team to the Next Level of Performance Recently, a client asked for support in getting her team to think more strategically. This year, Sandra took on a strategic growth initiative at her CEO’s request that requires a new level of skill, accountability, and client interaction…
Finding the Focus and Discipline for What Matters Most What Drives Your Choices Makes a Difference The first quarter of the year has already sped by. How are you coming along on all the goals you set for 2018? If you have checked most of the goals off your list, congratulations are in order.…
Building Trust Begins with You Or, How to Be the Grownup in the Room Are you waiting for “the other person” at work to take the first step in building trust? In the last newsletter, I wrote about the boss who trusted me to take on a major project in an area where I…
What is Possible When Your Team has Trust And How to Build Trust if It Doesn’t Does your team work in an environment of trust or fear? You will know the answer to that question when you observe how mistakes are handled. If I am working in an environment of trust, I can readily admit…
Managing Up, The Ninja Way The Leadership Curve, Part 3 This week I would like to talk further about what happens when you stop trying to change your boss. Some of the most significant breakthroughs my coaching clients have experienced have come through the recognition that the only person you can change is YOU.…
Stop Trying to Change Your Boss The Leadership Curve, Part 2 “If only I could convince our CEO and executive team to broaden the risk parameters of our company’s private equity portfolio. There’s so many more deals I could originate,” Greg complained. “If only my boss would communicate better about our team’s goals. She…
The Leadership Curve Navigating a Steep Learning Curve While Staying Productive He was flailing in the deep end of corporate leadership with no lifeguard or other swimmers in sight, gulping for air. Despite his attempts to stay calm, he felt the panic rising inside. He had lost sight of the shoreline long ago. He had…
Best Interview Questions to Ask a Candidate How to Find Out: Can They Do the Job? Will They Fit In? To wrap up on this month’s theme of “Interview Like a Champion” I want to close with thoughts on interviewing from the hiring manager side of the desk. How can you determine if the candidate…
The Interview Question that You Dread Your Most Challenging Interview Questions and What to Say What’s the one question that you dread hearing during the interview process? If dread is too strong a word, what’s the one question you are tired of hearing? It might be a question that feels as though the interviewer…