As an executive coach, I have learned that leadership skill-sets and mindsets are never fully mastered. And as leaders, we never reach our full potential. We all face the challenge to engage others in our mutual goals. The key is gaining our followers’ buy-in and commitment. I’ve created over 200 edu-tainment articles on Leadership Breakthroughs to help you purposefully pursue your potential as a leader: one breakthrough at a time.
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For those people who don’t live near the Idaho/British Columbia border who might want to understand more about Executive Coaching, allow me to share some situations where someone like me can make a valuable difference. Here are Tom’s Top 10 Reasons to Seek Executive Coaching.
Continue reading →How is it that some really smart people fail to achieve at high levels? We’ve seen people with an apparent abundance of knowledge, intellect and skills. But they flounder. Why does that happen? Perhaps the answer lies in asking: Are You Coachable or Merely Teachable?
Continue reading →Article exploring the 3 C’s of Success (Clarity, Confidence and Commitment) using the American Express slogan of the 80’s.
Continue reading →Futuristic Thinking is a sought after, essential, leadership skill. Why? If effective leadership is about creating a better future, it might be a good idea to give the future some serious thought. How do you develop your futuristic thinking?
Continue reading →But just when it seems that you have people pegged, they can surprise you. Why? Our behaviors and styles and the behaviors of others can be situational. To understand how this occurs with others, you first need to understand how it might occur with you.
Continue reading →Enhancing Your Motivation Awareness: We all inherently take actions that move us toward things that fulfill us. Often we don’t realize what’s happening. What if you were more aware of how this happens to you? We all do things our own reasons. While our reasons are unique to us, there are similarities that can be captured and characterized. Armed with that insight, it’s easier look inside and capture your insightful answers to questions like:
What are your passions?
How do you pursue them?
What if you could gain more focused sense of what drives you to perform?
I’ve worked to develop the Chicago Executive Coaching brand since 2006. Kinda.
I say “kinda” because I was really giving Lip Service to the effort. I once successfully led the re-building of a consumer product company in the late 90’s. I regularly collaborated with graphic designers on product packaging and catalogs for the product line. Some of our packaging received design award nominations. It helped us to gain valuable shelf space at major retail chains. Despite that knowledge and expertise, 2017 marked my 11th year without a legit logo. I was aware of the missing piece. I habitually ignored the issue. But then. came the wake-up call.
When most of us consider time management, we think in terms of filling out our calendar. But that only addresses the first dimension.
Continue reading →In my travels to different corporate cultures in over 60 different industries, the most common truth I find is: Miscommunication is at the root of all dysfunction. What’s a leader to do?
Continue reading →We can agree that innovation is a critical component for building a competitive edge and solving problems and challenges along the way.
As we pursue innovation, we seek attributes like creativity and thinking outside-the-box. If only leading innovation was as simple as gathering groups of creatives and letting them brainstorm. The reality is that working with creatives and outside the box thinkers can be like herding cats.
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