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 …

Topic:  SCALE your business by building an advisory board Come join us for the next Leading Coaches Center Mastermind Call featuring Marissa Levin who wrote the book on how to build an advisory board.  If not for your own business, then join us to learn about what you need to know for coaching leaders who are facing the challenges of …

On February 16, 2012 we held a digitally interactive mastermind call featuring Leading Coach  Tom Finn. We had 35 Leading Coaches register for the call, and we interacted on the Leading Coaches’ Facebook page while on the call with Tom.  If you want to see the notes posted on the Facebook page, you can scroll to the bottom of this …

Organizations of every size are interested in increasing bench strength, improving succession planning and elevating performance of employees at all levels

In a recent conversation a colleague discussed doing motivational speaking. Then she said, “or maybe it’s inspirational.” That got me thinking about a common dilemma that managers and leaders face, “is it my role to motivate or to inspire?” To me, the two terms are very related but have a definite distinction. Motivation is something that comes from within. As …

Coaching is one of the most requested professional development methods of corporate leaders. In a 2001 study by the Corporate Leadership Council coaching was the 5th most requested method for development. In a more recent study by Ninth House, 95% of all the Fortune 500 firms that participated in the study utilize external executive coaches as a part of their …

Whether you’re an executive coach or not, Rosanne Scriffingnano’s paper “Coaching within organisations: examining the influence of goal orientation on leaders’ professional development” (Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, Vol. 4, No. 1, March 2011, 20-31) provides some essential considerations about the impact of clients’ goal orientation on their development. Given the prevalence of the goal setting …