In this video I provide a framework for thinking about the two ladders that we take to the top of an organization. More specifically I talk about how getting stuck on the wrong ladder can be frustrating and career limiting! Knowing these ladders and which one you are are can quickly bring success and clarity to your role.
In this Quick Coaching Tip, I talk about a trend I'm seeing with my client's team as a symptom of living in COVID times.
This tip talks to a key point that I see in coaching around how resolutions stick! Too often resolutions are about particular outcomes, but those outcomes are the least important part of making and holding the resolution.
Affective leadership is a means to increase inclusion and psychological safety to ensure that groups move toward coalescing into high performing teams when tensions run high.
Leading to affect is the fastest way to stabilize a team, however affect is often buried behind the tactical behavior and positions we take while driving toward outcomes. This tip talks about ways to use mission, individual or global, to create and maintain a high functioning team.
One nuance of communication that I frequently work on with my coaching clients is the concept of “honest questions.” Do you know how to ask honest questions?
Stop being so positive! Positive Psychology is one of those concepts that everyone loves, but no one understands. Here is a way to truly be positive and understand that benign nice is an entirely different topic. Learn how to authentically integrate the wisdom of positive psychology into your leadership style.
Your identity is always already present, but we are more or less aware of how that identity is influencing our behavior and outcomes. More so, our identity is fluid and always changing in kind to our larger context. This tip covers how to think about our identity as a way to drive outcomes.
A common misconception is that coaching is about becoming super humans or executives without flaw. I see this all over the sales material because it sells. Spoiler alert, it's not what happens in coaching.
This coaching tip focuses on how to get alignment more quickly in difficult conversations.
