Published in, and reproduced with permission from, choice, the magazine  of professional coaching www.choice-online.com by Suzi Pomerantz and Bill Lindberg originally published in March 2009. After the business world reeled from the debacles of corrupt leaders who splattered the pages of the Wall Street Journal, the rebound cry was for transparency in leadership. In response to the government secrecy of …

Leaders need a break. Your coaching clients need a break.  You need a break. In order to get off the hamster-wheel of business (i.e., busy-ness), leaders can learn a few key mindfulness strategies that will help them to create space and breath in their otherwise uber-overwhelmed day. Below are a few excerpts from the new book for leaders called  Yoga …

Lisa Ann Edwards is one of the popular speakers at WBECS, and has shared this coaching tool with us! Tool title: The ROI of Developing Your Women Leaders The tool is a PDF you can download using the red button at the bottom that says, “Download Article” Tool Benefits: Gain insight into what makes a great ROI case study Learn why …

The third issue of Marshall Goldsmith on Leadership & Coaching delves into Marshall’s process for coaching leaders to change their behaviors for performance improvement. The Coaching for Behavioral Change process has been used around the world with great success by internal and external coaches. Follow the steps in this series and leaders will almost always achieve positive behavioral change. The …

By Marshall Goldsmith Continual contact with colleagues is so effective in helping leaders develop that they can succeed even without a large, formal program. Leadership is a relationship not between the coach and the “coachee,” but between the leader and his or her colleagues. Learn the eight steps to effective leadership development in this issue of the Marshall Goldsmith On …

This magazine is dedicated to the inspiring and thought-provoking ideas of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith on the topics of leadership and professional coaching. Dr. Goldsmith has been recognized for the past four years as one of the Top Ten Business Thinkers in the World and the top-rated executive coach at the Thinkers50 ceremony in London. His newest book, Triggers, is a …

I’m a little skeptical of self-diagnosis. Most people tend to overestimate their strengths and overrate their weaknesses.

The higher up you go in the organization, the more your problems are behavioral. You’re smart, you’re up-to-date, you know the technical aspects of your job, but often you may lack some important people skills and it’s hindering your success.

What is most needed is a way to have a deep, but anxiety-free conversation with someone that encourages dialogue between parties to understand the behaviour and seek change.

Introduction What Is Good about Discomfort? The Discomfort Zone is the moment of uncertainty when people are most open to learning. On the day I resigned from my last corporate position, one of the vice presidents came into my office and said, “You can’t go. Who will I talk to?” I recalled our first heated encounter five years earlier when …