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You’re More Contagious than You Think – Coughing, sniffling and sneezing are obvious signals to both ourselves and others that we’re potentially infecting others. As a leader, your attitudes are just as infectious. What are people catching from you?
“You Need to Gain More Executive Presence” – This is becoming a more common suggestion – especially to high potential leaders. Have you heard it yet? Have you said it yet? In some circles, Executive Presence has become a buzz phrase. All too often buzz words and phrases are tossed it out in a feeble attempt to sound relevant. But when your audience doesn’t really understand your meaning any better than you do, you can look really shallow.
Based on LinkedIn and Facebook stats, here are our readers’ favorites for 2017. In case you missed them, here’s your chance to join the party. Learn and share more.
Accountability conversations are potentially confrontational and unpleasant. So we avoid and procrastinate in favor of more comfortable tasks When such avoidance occurs, critical things don’t get done. And who’s really good at having critical conversations? How skilled are you?
However you choose to describe your form of procrastination, there’s a good chance you’re putting off some important, yet unpleasant tasks. When you remove that unpleasantness from sight, there’s always a day when it rears its ugly head.
Clarity is the 1st of my 3 C’s for success. Why is clarity important? Here’s some Clarity Categories to help clarify & improve your self leadership skills.
I once had a coaching client whose career was suddenly jeopardized by a series of team performance mishaps. Several wheels had fallen off. Top management now noticed the adverse effects and knew just who to blame.
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
Too Good to be True? Our three most scarce resources are time, money and talent. When we believe we don’t have enough of these to spare, we typically opt out. Here’s something universally powerful that requires very little of these scarce resources. Yet, the opt-out rate is surprisingly high.
How many times have you found yourself in need of help from others in a difficult time and help didn’t show up? how diligent are you about asking for help? Learn 5 paralyzing reasons that we neglect to request help in our times of need.
How would you rate yourself as an effective listener? If we asked people who know you well, how would you rate? Take this simple 3- question quiz to get your first clues.
While there are a costs and trade offs to using pen and paper, the opportunities you capture are potentially priceless.
Since this is Leadership Breakthroughs on ChicagoExecutiveCoaching.com, I’m compelled to express my elation gratitude to the Chicago Cubs’ management. The National League Pennant is an Epic Leadership Breakthrough achievement. Here’s why.
IKTA is NOT some institution or association of higher learning. It IS a potential wake-up call for those of us who start believing we have all the answers. I’m sharing it because it can make a difference between gaining knowledge and actually applying it. Just because you’ve heard an answer doesn’t mean you have the answer.
Our workdays are filled with distractions and other people’s demands for our time. We find ourselves spending so much time and energy on the agendas of others, we struggle to work on our own. Our truly important stuff gets pushed to the back burner. It’s easy to lose focus.
Once you’ve become comfortable exercising your problem solving muscles, you use those muscles instinctively. What happens when your problem solving muscles get really well developed? You can become muscle bound. How does that work with problem solving? Can it become too much of a good thing?
As you consider the concept of discipline, I believe there are two important questions to address: 1. Do I NEED more of it? and 2. Do I WANT more of it?
Is it Time to STOP Saying “I’m not in sales”? Have you ever found yourself using this disqualifying phrase? Why did you say it? If you’ve been disqualifying yourself as a “sales person”, let me help you to be more realistic.
We all want more of the good things and less of the bad things in life. Is that wrong? The desire for more isn’t wrong. But for things that are truly important to you, your approach needs to go beyond wanting “more”.
We can likely agree that integrity is an essential leadership attribute. Judging by their actions, some believe that integrity can and should be turned on and off light switch. That’s akin to believing you can be just a little bit pregnant.
It’s been said that people can be placed into one of two categories: Possibility Thinkers or Necessity Thinkers. Which are you? How would you characterize the people you lead?
Leaders typically choose their approach intuitively without thinking about the choice. What if they gave it more thought?
Effective communication is all about influencing the thoughts and actions of others. There are countless “selling tactics” that you might apply to a given situation. But it is easy to shoot yourself in the foot with them. Why?
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.
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?
The “Stress Free Workplace” is an Oxymoron. There very few stress-free jobs or organizations today. That’s not always a bad thing. Stress is not something that should be avoided at all times. Stress can serve some very positive purposes. But when it reaches a level where job performance and health suffer, it’s time to take a closer look and ask: What is Stress Management?
How often do new and different ideas and approaches meet with resistance?
In any team or group there are naysayers. The bean counter who says: “We can’t afford it” The engineer who proclaims: “That will never work.” or “It can’t be done.” The tenured folks who may say: “That’s not how we do things here.”
It’s enough to drive an optimist into submission. And sometimes it does.
Thanks to Bert Martinez for having me, Marshall Goldsmith and Jason Drohn as guests on his Blog Talk Radio Show Money for Lunch. Here’s a ink to listen to the show.
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