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What to Do When You Blow It

Monday Morning Coach — Mon, 20 May 2013 12:00:48 +0000

Me? Blow it? The truth is, we all blow it. As leaders, team members, staff, parents, adult kids, neighbors, you name it; it’s human nature to blow it from time to time. And, here’s the paradox about blowing it, if you handle the moments after you realize what you’ve done well, you can actually build [...]

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Building A Great Team

Monday Morning Coach — Mon, 13 May 2013 12:57:51 +0000

It seems an almost universal experience that at some point in our lives we will need to build a great team. It’s not just those of us who need to run a corporation or a non-profit, it’s also those of us trying to gather together wonderful helpers for a elementary school classroom, or parents looking [...]

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Your Potential

Monday Morning Coach — Mon, 06 May 2013 12:43:48 +0000

We have recently finished a book by Barbara Kingsolver entitled Flight Behavior. It’s a novel about a poor rural family and the phenomenon of having monarch butterflies migrate to their mountain; but, below the surface it is a book about potential – the potential of a caterpillar becoming a butterfly, the potential of a scientist [...]

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Conquering Fear

Monday Morning Coach — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:32:45 +0000

Fear has a funny place in our culture – it is both sought after and it is abhorred. As a species, we are comfortable with fear on our own terms – like when we watch horror films, ride rollercoasters, or engage in adrenaline-rushing sports. In these instances, it’s quite clear what is causing the [...]

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Be Careful about What Others Come to Trust in You

Monday Morning Coach — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:26:24 +0000

In our last two posts (“Be Thoughtful About Your Message” and “Be Thoughtful About Your Message, Part 2“) we recounted an experience we had with an online, professional group and it’s leadership. In short, there had been much discussion and an explicit commitment to creating transparency among the leaders and the group. When the originator [...]

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Aligning Your Words and Your Actions, Part 2

Monday Morning Coach — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:13:21 +0000

Last week (Aligning Your Words and Your Actions) we described our participation in an online, professional group that was started to create a team of experts focused on providing high-quality, responsive programs that were of service to clients while building brand recognition and professional success for the providers. The early stages of the project [...]

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Aligning Your Words and Your Action

Monday Morning Coach — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:00:24 +0000

We recently participated in an online, professional group created to provide high-quality, responsive programs that are of service to clients while building brand recognition and professional success for the providers. Early in the negotiations of this group, one of the members, Anton, stepped in to help the originator, Mark, lead and guide the project [...]

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The Power to “Give and Take”

Monday Morning Coach — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:54:09 +0000

In our combined 30+ years of coaching, one of the observations we have made is that some people tend to be concerned about giving enough to the organization for which they work, and some tend to be concerned about getting enough from the organization for which they work. The phenomenon peaked our curiosity so we [...]

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Be a People Person: Effective Leadership Through Effective Relationships

Stephanie Smith — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 07:01:42 +0000

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Influence vs. Manipulation

Monday Morning Coach — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:30:41 +0000

In our coaching work with executives and managers, we often run into individuals who are uncomfortable with the idea of learning to be more influential because they equate influence with manipulation. Influencing others requires building a shared vision for the future (that future may be three years out, or it may be how to [...]

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