Posts Tagged ‘coaching’

Are you Satisfied?

In September of 1960, J.F. Kennedy engaged Richard Nixon in the first presidential candidates’ debate. Kennedy’s opening statement in that debate has now become the famous “I am not satisfied” speech. What Kennedy’s team rightly strategized was that in any competitive environment, political or businesses, sustainable success starts with focusing on your own house. You will not win the race by focusing on the competition. There are a number of reasons for this... Continue reading

June 16 2009 | By Clemens | Tagged: branding, business, coaching, competition, customer, entreprenuership, leadership, Management, marketing, success | 6 comments»

The One Thing You Need to Close the Deal on Change

You know what you want. You know what to do. So why is nothing happening? There are thousands of texts and approaches in the productivity & success universe. Many of them are good, some are great. Some, like the writings of Marcus Buckingham approach genius in their rich simplicity. So why, if there are so many great ways to become more productive and more successful, are so many of us still struggling… Continue reading

February 23 2009 | By Clemens | Tagged: change, coach, coaching, entreprenuership, mentor, planning, process | 8 comments»

Change The Way You See Fear And Change Your Life

When was the last time you took a risk? Not something major and life-threatening, but something that represented a step outside your comfort zone. Can you recall a time recently when you did something that felt uncomfortable for you? If not, get ready to take a major step forward. Frequently, in business and in life, we get too comfortable. We find solid ground - a place that feels safe - we… Continue reading

February 13 2009 | By Susan | Tagged: business, coaching, entrepreneur, failure, fear, life, success | 20 comments»

Set Yourself on Fire

Have you heard of a guy called Fred Shero? No? Until recently, me neither. I'm not a big sports fan and Fred was a hugely successful Canadian NHL player and coach with a string of many hundreds of wins and numerous awards and accolades to his name. Pretty good going, but it's not his sports record that I admire. What I love Fred for is something that he once said: "Success is… Continue reading

November 27 2008 | By Steve | Tagged: coaching, confidence, goal setting, motivation, personal-development, self-help, self-improvement, success | 17 comments»

5 Easy Ways to Shake Off a Bad Mood

Everyone gets into a big ol’ bad mood sometimes. I’m talking about the kind of mood that throws a spanner in the works, has you fuming at every little thing and threatens to ruin a perfectly good day. Sometimes these moods happen just when you don't want them to and they can get in the way of doing what you want to do in the way that you want to… Continue reading

November 19 2008 | By Steve | Tagged: coaching, confidence, exercise, motivation, personal-development, self esteem, self-help, self-improvement | 16 comments»

Just Listen To Yourself

How often do you have a really strong gut instinct and it proves to be wrong? How often do you override that instinct and then kick yourself later on? My guess would be that if you’re anything like the people that come to me for life coaching the answers are hardly ever and always. Everybody knows intuitively that they have solid instincts. I have never met anybody either… Continue reading

November 17 2008 | By Tim | Tagged: coaching, consciousness, instinct, self-development | 15 comments»

Strengths-Based Personal Development

Chris Brogan: I'm on a kick. I just finished reading Marcus Buckingham's, NOW, DISCOVER YOUR STRENGTHS, and found that I agreed with their premise that working on your strengths is much more productive than throwing time and effort at changing your weaknesses. One example given was a school report card. If you have one A, two B's, one C, and two D's, parents tend to obsess over the negative grades… Continue reading

June 26 2007 | By Chris | Tagged: business, coaching, gallop, personaldevelopment, self-improvement, strengthsfinder, tomrath | 7 comments»

Selfish Mentoring

One of my favorite themes in the MWA coaching curriculum is something we refer to as the ‘selfish mentoring of ‘imi ola.’ ‘Imi ola is the Hawaiian value of personal vision; it literally translates to ‘seek life’ and as a business value, we use it to coach managers on how to seek their best possible lives in business. Don’t get stuck on the normally negative connotation of the word; selfishness in… Continue reading

February 15 2007 | By Rosa | Tagged: business, choice, coaching, decision-making, mentoring, planning, Productivity, trust | 4 comments»

Great Managers Teach (When They Should)

Great Managers cultivate a work environment where lifelong learners thrive. Everyone simply learns for the sake of learning, thrilling to its personal reward. In these workplaces, curiosity is admired and all ideas are prized, and the Great Managers are those who facilitate the learning process in which those ideas incubate until innovation breaks through. People grow magnificently in the process. Among studies of their own, managers will learn how to be… Continue reading

January 25 2007 | By Rosa | Tagged: coaching, effectiveness, expertise, learning, teaching | 3 comments»

Fostering Responsibility: Becoming a Great Leader #4

One of the challenges faced by great leaders is coaching others into accepting responsibility for their own actions and behavior. We all make mistakes. In order to grow from those mistakes we must be able to accept ownership of the mistake. There is a good metaphor about a storm that looks at responsibility. A person's behaviors and actions are a storm. At the edge of a storm you can't really tell… Continue reading

September 25 2006 | By Reginald | Tagged: business, coaching, growth, leadership | 5 comments»

Discover your 4-Fold Capacity

I worked in retail for a short time, and detail business that retail is, the experience created some lingering impressions for me. One was a fascination with taking inventory, and projecting the potential margins that inventory could represent. In the retail business I learned to consider assets as a means to an end; the ‘end’ was product and service. My shop inventory created a product experience for the customer which exponentially… Continue reading

June 29 2006 | By Rosa | Tagged: capacity, coaching, mentoring | 8 comments»