Category Archives: Leadership Coaching Tips

1/20 – Ambition and Leading

Leadership Coaching Tips / January-February 2014

Russ Volckmann

Assessments are used in many ways in individual development, whether through direct feedback from others, questionnaires, etc. Each individual, each assessment, is based on a set of values that shape criteria. When someone identifies a set of criteria or offers learning from experience, these can be a good place to start in gaining insight into our own situation.

The following (edited) material was posted by Michael Lamport Commons on January 11, 2014. While the advice is directed to …

11/27 – Finding Common Ground between Business Goals and Human Potential

Leadership Coaching Tips / August-November 2013

Kirstin McGuire

Steve’s Story of Disengagement

“You there?” This is the message that awaits my friend Steve via instant messaging every single morning at exactly 8:00am at the office. It’s from his manager, Olivia, who also happens to be the owner of the company where Steve works as a salesperson. Without fail for eight months now, Steve is greeted with two words that he has learned to despise. Two words that make him feel untrusted and disengaged.

From Steve’s point …

08/15 – The Four Rs of Alethic Coaching- The Heart of Alethic Coaching

Leadership Coaching Tips / August-November 2013

Gary Hawke

Critical Realism is a project of emancipation, as Bhaskar has stated, “a total project to demolish the ideologies standing in the way of human freedom”. If this is the project of Critical Realism, then it is also a search for truth or a search for the Alethic truth, again Bhasker, “This is the level of truth in which when we talk about truth of something we are talking about the reality which grounds, explains or causes it”.

Alethic …

The Power of Disbelief

Leadership Coaching Tips / June 2013

Darius Srebalius

There has been an overwhelming amount of books and articles dedicated to the power of belief. Indeed, belief has a crucial power on personal and organizational development. But what about disbelief? There is a tendency to admit that disbelief is void, which is actually not, as it is of a negative form. “I don’t believe” means “I believe I cannot do it, I believe it is not part of me, I believe this is not possible” and so …

Improving Meeting Effectiveness with Exercises to Engage Presence and Creativity

Leadership Coaching Tips / March 2013

Kirstin McGuire

Meeting. Say the word and you are likely to see a lot of eyes rolling and faces cringing. People think, “Ugh! Another unproductive hour of my life that I can never get back.” Like them or not, meetings are a necessity for getting business done, but sadly, the vast majority are a complete waste of time for most of the people in attendance. This article presents two ideas for leaders who are interested in changing this paradigm by …

I Wish Someone Would Listen to Me!

Leadership Coaching Tips / January 2013

Di Rosalia Grande

“I wish someone would listen to me!”

From this statement begins the search by those who wish to undertake a coaching process. In Italy and in the world there are many styles, approaches and structuring, the reason being that there are a wide range of approaches to offering of this “service”, Coaching is useful to the individual and for the society, too, as bearer of values of openness, the need for truth, authenticity and human understanding. Approaches …

How to Idiot-Proof Excellence

Leadership Coaching Tips / October 2012

Amiel Handelsman

It’s now been thirty years since Peters and Waterman published In Search of Excellence. According to Art Kleiner, Editor of strategy + business, this book brought into the mainstream the notion that building a successful company requires more than simply managing the numbers. Or, as an integral practitioner might say, it elevated the value of the “We” domain of culture to its rightful place beside the “Its” domain of structures and systems. Since In Search …

Getting to the Next Level of Greatness…

Leadership Coaching Tips / October 2012

Judith E. Glaser

My clients are all leaders in corporations ranging in size from $150 million to $50 billion. I share this because I’ve learned that it doesn’t matter how small or large the company is, leaders have the same shared-challenge. How to get to their next level of greatness…

When I start a coaching engagement, I always ask leaders what they want. What type of organization they want to create – what they are aspiring to build… 100% of …

Leadership Coaching Tip: Sticking with it through a “Gumption Trap”

Leadership Coaching Tips / August 2012

Andy Atwood

Here is a real life tale about being an entrepreneur, a business partner, a naïve person, and the victim of embezzlement. It’s the tale of how a couple of old friends have been moving through one “Gumption Trap” after another.

In 2008, my basketball shooting buddy, Al Heystek, told me that he had significantly improved his free throw shooting by using a little gizmo that he had invented while training in the driveway. Al had been shooting hoops …

Leadership Coaching Tip

Leadership Coaching Tips / June 2012

Be Open to Outcomes

Eric Reynolds

Most of my clients are individuals and small organizations that come to me because they are at a major transition in their lives. They come to me with life goals they want to reach, a professional change they are trying to make, or because they are at a major transition in their lives. Something needs to change, but they don’t know what. They require guidance into a new existence, which requires a different framework. …