Posts Tagged ‘coaching’

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

June 26 2007 | By Chris | Tagged: business, coaching, gallop, personaldevelopment, self-improvement, strengthsfinder, tomrath | 5 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

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

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

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

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