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Rick Piraino

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Rick has been working in the field of human behavior, education, and change dynamics for the past thirty years. He is a certified Covey trainer and holds both a bachelors and a Masters Degree in Education. As an entrepreneur, Rick has developed 3 businesses since 1985 including Wisconsin's largest complimentary medicine clinic in its day.Since 1996 he has been applying his experience to support businesses in the areas of people management, supervisor/manager training, leadership development/coaching, work climate assessment, internal customer/supplier cultures, and team building - all designed to create cultures of excellence.Strong in workplace and interpersonal dynamics, culture change, writing, leadership, development and emotional intelligence. Excel at creating trust and building the progressive learning experiences that successfully drive successful trainings.He is the author of Responsibility-Based Performance Management (RPM), a people/performance management training and organizational system with over 400 leaders trained and systems employed in education, sales, manufacturing, printing, publishing and service industries.Rick is an executive and team coach using the New Change Technology to rapidly overcome the blocks that cause leaders to sabotage their best efforts at change and peak performance.

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Behavior Attracts Behavior

By Rick Piraino
August 25, 2011
in :  Emotional Intelligence: EI/EQ, Executive Presence, Research, Tools and Applications, Training
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Taking responsibility for understanding ourselves and mastering the ability to change our behavior to match our values (the definition of integrity) will attract the same from those we manage.

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Being a Pack Leader

By Rick Piraino
August 11, 2011
in :  Case Studies, Executive Presence, Leadership, Leadership Coaching, Tools and Applications
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Let’s learn what we can from man’s best friend and see what we can apply to our work and home life

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Defensive Communication

By Rick Piraino
August 11, 2011
in :  Executive Presence, Tools and Applications
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What if our awareness of the other person alerts us to defensive responses that are getting in the way of our desired outcome?

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Coaching and Confrontation

By Rick Piraino
August 11, 2011
in :  Coaching Roles, Emotional Intelligence: EI/EQ, Employee Engagement & Motivation, Executive Presence, Feedback, Human Capital, Tools and Applications
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Assuming nothing, we approach the conversation with openness and curiosity, both absolutely essential for a true exploration of the context of the problem

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The Chain of Command

By Rick Piraino
August 11, 2011
in :  Coaching Roles, Emotional Intelligence: EI/EQ, Executive Coaching, Executive Presence, Leadership Coaching, Performance, Training
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Examine your behavior and identify when and where you may jump the chain – including with frontline workers. What are your triggers - directives that you don’t see being implemented, breakdowns in procedure, waste being generated?

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Art of the Question in Coaching Sessions

By Rick Piraino
August 10, 2011
in :  Coaching Questions, Executive Coaching, Leadership Coaching, Tools and Applications
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Having a series of open-ended questions in mind helps keep the ownership of the problem and its solution on the employee.

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Anger and Coaching

By Rick Piraino
August 10, 2011
in :  Corporate, Emotional Intelligence: EI/EQ, Executive, Executive Coaching, Executive Presence, Human Capital, Leadership Coaching, Managing Stress & Challenges, Organiz Develop (OD), Performance, Tools and Applications
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At some point in every training, I ask the question, “When is anger appropriate in the work place?” In every training so far, the response has been, “Never.”  Good to hear; yet, despite this understanding, anger continues to be at least a tolerated behavior in the culture of most organizations. Let’s take a closer look. Anger in the work place …

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Coaching and Accountability

By Rick Piraino
August 10, 2011
in :  Case Studies, Executive Coaching, Executive Presence, Leadership Coaching, Meetings & Conferences, Performance, Tools and Applications
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We cannot afford to lose it to reactivity, hostility, and blame; rather, it is the best tool we have to create excellence with our employees.

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