Leading coaches Charles E. Smith, PhD., and Suzi Pomerantz posted an article called Success in Today’s Economy Requires Executives to Take Responsibility for Two Worlds and we’d love your input! The basic premise is that particularly in companies or agencies implementing technology-based projects, leaders must recognize and attend to the duality of the two worlds required for business success in …

What is sustainability as it pertains to coaches and coaching programs? This is one question among many that 40 professionals convened in Washington, D.C. last week (June 24-25) to explore at the ICCO Symposium; a learning event for multiple stakeholders of coaching in organizations.  The beautiful McLean, Virginia office space for the event was generously provided by LMI Consulting.  The …

Leading Coach Jeremy Robinson launched a new blog in October that I just have to share with you! He had me from his opening post:  The Financial Crisis and a pathology of the Leadership Contagion where he shares his equation explaining emotional contagion: Emotions are contagious. Emotions are highly contagious amongst groups. The workplace is a group. The workplace is …

Leading Coach Andrew Boddice and his partner conducted research across the top 500 businesses in Scotland.  This article is the second in a three-part series.  Leaders of organizations must be able to create the right environment for employees and articulate the direction of the business. You can download the PDF of the article to read it in full using the …

I’m delighted to have permission to share with you this engaging piece by one of my mentors on the malady he has dubbed Possibility Deficit Disorder.  It’s a pandemic!  I’d love your thoughts and reactions.  Read on and login to be able to comment below. Possibility Deficit Disorder (PDD) tm by Charles E. Smith and Donald Duprey What is PDD? …

“Social media has reached a tipping point as a way of connecting with others, but it has also transformed the way businesses are run, and even the top-down ethos from which many organizations operate. Marketers no longer “own” brand messages, but are rather building their brand equity through relationship building; they are becoming experts in the art of giving away …

Distraction creates OVERWHELM. It’s a pandemic these days how many of us feel continual overwhelm. I see it in the executives I coach, I see it in leaders everywhere, and I see it in school children. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Focused, Engaged, Present I recently spent time coaching a team of scientists leading a large scale project for …

In this second installment of the BIG questions we received, there were a number of questions grouped in the category of ROI or business benefit.  Please be sure to add your comments and reactions in the comment section below! Part 2: ROI and Business Benefit 1.  Do I need a coach to improve my business? Will a coach really be …

Executive Coaching Firm Announces Results of its Just-Completed Survey on Leadership Leadership Unleashed, a Southern California-based firm that provides individually tailored coaching services to executives and leadership teams worldwide, today announced the findings of its recent survey. While the survey showed leaders understand that good relationships are needed for positive business results, about a third of leaders in a survey …

If you are not using Twitter to expand your business, you are leaving money on the table!  The power of Twitter is not self-evident, nor is it an intuitive vehicle.  For example, when you first go there, it looks like a superficial and stupid waste of time. For instance, who cares what I ate for lunch? But Twitter creates REAL …