Monday Morning Business Coach

What is the Monday Morning Business Coach?

For over 12 years and running, every Monday morning we’ve sent out an email containing an executive coaching “nugget”—a simple, practical tip or strategy for you to easily take action on to start off your work week.

We use the situations of our clients (anonymously, of course) as well as what we’re pondering or reading about to write a short post. We keep it short because we know your life is busy and you need the “quick tips” to solve your problems, help you focus, and move you forward. We’re not claiming we can solve every issue, but we aim to give you the knowledge and wisdom to help you find your own power and create the future you want. You can view past posts below.

To Hire the Best, Consider Your Story

You may have noticed that more and more companies are telling you their stories.  Understanding a company’s story allows you to identify with the meaning and purpose that shapes a company, and it builds a personal relationship to them – which translates into greater loyalty.  In this same way, if you are looking to hire great people and great leaders, you need to share your organization’s story.  You need to tell potential employees why your company was started, what the…

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Getting a Good Night’s Sleep is NOT a Luxury

Last week we talked about the power of distractions to derail you as you try to move forward in your day and your life.  One of the things we mentioned as important in combatting the impact of distractions was sleep.  We know we bug you about this stuff with some regularity and we don’t want to be a broken record but there is some new data on the importance of sleep that is critical to understand if you are committed…

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Don’t Let Distractions Get in Your Way

One of the most common concerns that we hear from our clients is that there is too much to do in too little time.  There is much truth to that concern – many of us have more on our plates than we can possibly do in the time allotted.  At the same time, there is increasing research that if we are not aggressively managing our distractions, we can be spending a significant portion of the little time we do have…

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Be Fearless in Your Vision

In Martin Luther King’s vision of the future, he was described a life that was far better than he believed was actually possible in his own lifetime.  He was fearless in his description of a better life for his children and the generations to come.  He had no idea how the vision was going to come to life, but because he believed that a better future was possible, he committed to taking the small steps each day to get him…

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Let Them Know How Their Input was Used

Today is our last post on how to use The Engagement Spiral©.  For those of you just joining us, here is a list of the previous posts, click on the link to read those you have missed: The Engagement Spiral© Overview Step 1:  Tell Them They Matter Step 2:  Teach People How to Provide Input Step 3:  Take Input to the Relevant Decision-Makers Step 4:  Use the Input and Perspective They Provide. In our years of coaching, we have seen…

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Input: Use It!

We hate to keep giving those of you who are already members of our community a recap but we’ve had a lot of people joining our online coaching community in recent weeks and we want them to be able to successfully follow the process in this series.  As you will recall, in our December 9th post we gave you an overview of The Engagement Spiral© that we created to help leaders in organizations, communities, and even families create engagement and alignment…

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Take Input to the Relevant Decision-Makers

In our December 9th post we gave you an overview of The Engagement Spiral© that we created to help leaders in organizations, communities, and even families create engagement and alignment behind goals and initiatives.  As you may recall, we believe that in life and work, you and your organization are either spiraling upward or downward and we have seen that effective engagement can accelerate upward spirals.    On December 16th we talked about the first step of The Engagement Spiral©…

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Teach People How to Provide Input

Most of the executives who come in to work with us are bright, well intended individuals who are struggling simply because they haven’t been taught the tools to succeed – especially in the area of engaging others. We created The Engagement Spiral© to teach individuals how to increase engagement and a sense of ownership in others in 6 basic steps.   Step 1 is to Tell People They Matter – And Mean It.  Step 2 is to Teach People How To…

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Tell Them They Matter – And Mean It

Hollow are the words from leaders, managers and supervisors who say that their employees are their greatest assets, yet proceed to operate as if their employees are unable to comprehend the business or worse yet don’t exist.   We once consulted with an organization that was struggling due to low morale and high turnover.  We met with the leadership team and they told us that they were baffled that the staff was so unhappy since they prided themselves in being…

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Creating an Upward Spiral of Engagement

Last week we talked about the difference between Collaboration and Engagement.   Both are important, but engagement is especially important as you think about the culture and tone you want to create in your workplace and in your life.  If you recall, we talked about collaboration as a way of working together to get something done and engagement as a way of aligning people so that they can see and feel that they matter and that they have influence, which leads…

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