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What Burdens Is That Other Person Carrying?

This week, we want to share with you an article that we read recently. The article is written by Carl Richards and appeared in the New York Times. We’ve pasted the article in the body of the post, but you can also click to read the article here. As you’ll see, the article is about…

Filed Under: Monday Morning Business Coach Tagged With: burdens, Carpenter Smith Consulting, challenges, communication, emotional intelligence, fundamental pause, growth, Influence, influencing, leadership, lenses of leadership, Monday Morning Business Coach, others, self, triggers

If You Toss Someone a Grenade…

If you toss a group a grenade…they will run for cover.   Starting a conversation with accusations or anger is akin to tossing a grenade into a room and expecting people to want to play “catch.”   No matter how valuable your insight or how accurate your concern, the act of grenade tossing will result…

Filed Under: Monday Morning Business Coach Tagged With: Carpenter Smith Consulting, challenges, communication, emotional intelligence, engagement, fundamental pause, growth, Influence, influencing, leadership, management, Monday Morning Business Coach, self, take action, triggers

The Fundamental Pause

As coaches, we get hired because people – despite the best of intentions – are struggling to change the things that are getting in the way of their success. Our goal is to help you recognize and overcome those habitual reactions that keep the changes you’re working toward from taking hold. The key behind the…

Filed Under: Monday Morning Business Coach Tagged With: Carpenter Smith Consulting, challenges, communication, emotional intelligence, engagement, fundamental pause, growth, Influence, influencing, leadership, management, Monday Morning Business Coach, self, take action, triggers

Don’t Let Fear Stop You

don't let fear stop you

If you’ve been a part of our community for a while, you know that we think a lot about the ways we can support you to move forward on the things that are important to you, bring you meaning, and create the future that you long for. Sometimes, those words can sound like the phrases…

Filed Under: Monday Morning Business Coach Tagged With: growth, self, self-care, triggers

What to Do with Those Negative Neils & Nellies!

negative people

One of the things many of our clients struggle with is how to get the most out of the negative people in their lives. Those people who are quick to see what’s wrong, or to resist a new idea, or who focus on all the potential “disastrous” consequences of a decision. Almost all of us…

Filed Under: Monday Morning Business Coach Tagged With: communication, engagement, influencing and being influenced by, leadership, triggers

The Power to Choose Our Freedom

“Between stimulus and response, there is space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”  — Viktor Frankl Many of you who know our work know of our passion for the Fundamental Pause. We call it the Fundamental Pause because it is indeed a…

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Leading When You Want to Scream

We had a meeting this week with a wonderful woman, Janis, who is a leader in a number of spheres in her life—in her business, her family, her community, and her church. She is warm, kind, and powerful. She is often looked to for her wisdom and perspective and has a thoughtfulness that many admire.…

Filed Under: Monday Morning Business Coach Tagged With: leadership, self, triggers

Do You Have a Faulty Alarm?

One of the things we hear over and over again from clients, colleagues, and friends is that it’s challenging to use The Fundamental Pause when they have a strong physiological reaction. They describe the experience of flashing with anxiety, anger, and fear so powerfully that they simply “need” to react. We understand their experience as…

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Our Insides and Their Outsides

A number of years ago, a thoughtful and talented business owner, Andrea, was bumping into some old anxieties about the sustainability of her business and the decisions she was making. We spent a couple of meetings teasing out the data behind her anxiety. We explored what she needed to be genuinely concerned about as the…

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Dealing with Bad News

There comes a time in each of our lives when we are the recipient of “bad news.” You know, the news that kicks you in the gut and for that moment, the world stands still. A few of the “bad news” topics that we have supported our clients through include: the loss of a valued…

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