7 Principles of Manager-Coaches
Manager-coaches are persons to whom others report and who use coaching skills with individuals and teams who report to them.
2002, 2023
0501, 2021
2021: A Call for Resilience
Without a doubt, 2020 was the most challenging year for most of us. We witnessed a global health pandemic resulting in quarantines, hospitalizations, health resource shortages, deaths, record-speed development and deployment of vaccines, polarizing elections, racial injustices, economic highs and lows, unemployment rise, businesses shuttered, education systems pivoting to provide remote teaching and learning … I could go on, and
3005, 2020
With All of This Disruption, What is “Normal”?
In recent weeks, states and communities have started lifting restrictions on movement and business operations amidst the Covid-19 pandemic. I suspect this will be a slow process. And, as many experts forecast, we may see a return to restrictions in the coming months. As I think about my experience since mid-March and imagine what is on the horizon, I am
0504, 2020
Working in an Unfamiliar Space: What Will You Do?
Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest…. – Georgia O’Keefe (1976) I’ve been working at home and practicing social distancing for over three weeks. Like most of you, the phrase “social distancing” wasn’t even part of my vocabulary
0603, 2020
20 Questions to Start a Conversation
Recently an executive coaching client asked me how to break the ice with people who have achieved great things in life and who might be considered intimidating. Here are 20 questions to help get a conversation started and build a relationship (with just about anyone): How did you get into the work you are doing? What do you like most about the work you do?