Category Archives: Leadership Coaching Tips

1/18 – A Few Tips for Changing the World (Connect to a Greater Purpose, Facilitate Breakthroughs, Inspire Others to Think Big)

Leadership Coaching Tips / January-February 2016

Lev Gordon

I will say nothing new here, yet it is useful to sometimes repeat something that works, is it not?

On occasions in business or non-for-profit activities we aim to achieve goals that are new and beyond ordinary.

If you grow and evolve, you innovate, right?

And if you innovate, you always look for new ways to do things, right?

And if you want large-scale innovations you work with others. Best, you inspire and lead them to the new …

11/30 – Stop being authentic. Get awkward. Be creative.

Leadership Coaching Tips / August-November 2015

Rob McNamara

Authenticity is often highly valued by our clients and ourselves as coaches. We like feeling authentic. We enjoy discovering our own integrity. And we soak up the power we get when we are being “true to ourselves.”

Authenticity is an intoxicating idea. It’s an even more intoxicating experience. For a self, there’s nothing more alluring than the pursuit of being ourselves, our “real” selves.

While the pursuit of authenticity may be a worthy aim in early adulthood, by

10/9 – Trust the Process

Leadership Coaching Tips / August-November 2015

Winsor Jenkins

In the process of coaching a client, you are not expected to go into the process with answers for the client.  As coach, this means you are not there to perform.  Stay open to learning about your client’s needs and trust the process.

When I went through my coaching training at the Hudson Institute of Coaching, a critical learning was understanding (and developing) “self as coach.”  We are charged with understanding our own “internal landscape” in or order …

8/19 – Trans-generational Leadership and the Creation of True Eldership

Leadership Coaching Tips / August-November 2015

Michael Brabant

Adults are not born, they are not products of 18+ years of living in a human body, they are made. The prerequisite for this creation into adulthood? The death of their identity and habits as a child. I’m not referring to the inner magical child, the enlightened innocence, the sense of wonderment that most of us could use more of. I’m referring to the insecure, ego-positioning, self-gratifying, not taking responsibility, me-firstness of a child.

I propose a serious …

6/16 – Flow-Based Leadership

Leadership Coaching Tips / April - June 2015

Judith L. Glick-Smith, Ph.D.

Have you ever worked in an environment where everyone is happy and productive, where everyone is actually having fun doing what they do. No one complains about [the boss / a co-worker / the project / upper management / etc.]. The organization is innovative, creative, and profitable. The workplace fosters a sense of belonging, collaboration, and a “do whatever it takes” attitude. There are organizations, both geographically contained and virtual, where this is actually the culture. …

4/7 – Leading the life you want: Bridging work, family, community, and self!

Leadership Coaching Tips / April - June 2015

Natasha Mantler

Work/life balance has run its course…

Over the past two decades, there have been a plethora of work/life policies and programs designed to ensure men and women lead more productive lives (Greenhaus, 2000). The result? People are feeling even more stressed about not achieving, never mind maintaining, balance in their lives. When the goal is work/life balance, people are being forced to play a zero sum game (Friedman, 2014).

There is an underlying assumption that work/life balance is …

2/15 – It’s not just what you do, but also how you think!

Leadership Coaching Tips / January-February 2015

Natasha Mantler

“Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you act.” Leonard Cohen

This beautiful quote, from the infamous Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist, reminds us of the simpler nature of change. And yet, as leadership coaches and human beings, we have also experienced, known, and understood that true change, embodied change, enduring change, is often difficult to attain. How can both opposing perspectives be true?

At first glance, this quote …

1/15 – Leading Generative Change

Leadership Coaching Tips / January-February 2015

Tam Lundy

“Our best hope for the future is to develop a new paradigm of human capacity to meet a new era of human existence”.

Sir Ken Robinson

Generative change: An introduction

These days there’s lots of talk about adaptive change and adaptive leadership.

Framing adaptive leadership as a more adequate response to complex challenges, Harvard University’s Ronald Heifetz points to a common blind spot: the assumption that complexity can be tamed through technical problem solving. In future, he advises, …

8/15 — Are You Scared Speechless? Learn the Awareness and Control Method

Leadership Coaching Tips / August - November 2014

Bonnie Ellis

More than 2000 years ago, Plutarch records that when Demosthenes, the most famous orator of ancient Greece, first addressed the people that he was afflicted by “weakness in his voice, a perplexed and indistinct utterance and a shortness of breath . . .so that in the end, being quite disheartened, he forsook the assembly” (Dickens, 1974, p. 27).   Cicero, the most famous of the ancient Roman orators, confessed through the words of Crassus: “Assuredly, just as I generally …

4/1 – Leaders Who Can Be Led, Truly Lead

Leadership Coaching Tips / April- June 2014

Rajkumari Neogy

For me, change is always about unwrapping your inner package. When you know what’s inside and can read the owner’s manual, you’re better equipped to navigate your control panel.

Events, also known as experiences, are catalysts to change. If you choose to view life through that lens, your experiences can become your own personal search engine – something happens and you get curious, so you plug in keywords to your inner database and see what comes up.

I …