If you want to change, you must follow-up! Learn why this step is so important and how to do it, right. Leadership Is A Contact Sport step 7 of 8:  Change! By Marshall Goldsmith Change is simple, but it’s not easy. It’s hard. You have to do it. You have to put in the time and effort that it takes …

Involve & Change: Improving your odds for change Leadership Is A Contact Sport step 6 of 8:  Involve! By Marshall Goldsmith If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it fall, did it make a sound? This is the general conundrum behind why it is critical that you take the next two steps of the Leadership Is …

Learn how to respond to feedback and why the keys are to be positive, simple, focused, and fast! Leadership Is A Contact Sport step 5 of 8:  Respond! By Marshall Goldsmith If there is one thing I know, it’s how to respond to feedback. A pioneer in the use of customized, 360 degree feedback (confidential feedback from direct reports, peers …

Thanking works because it expresses one of our most basic emotions: gratitude. Leadership Is A Contact Sport step 4 of 8:  Thank! By Marshall Goldsmith Two magic words — Thank you! Thanking works because it expresses one of our most basic emotions: gratitude. Not an abstraction, gratitude is a genuine emotion. It cannot be exacted or forced. You either feel …

Reversing the order of speaking then thinking to thinking then speaking will do wonders for your relationships both professional and personal! Leadership Is A Contact Sport step 3 of 8:  Think! By Marshall Goldsmith Thinking before speaking is a challenge for a lot of people. It might even be hard for you, especially if you are trying to prove to …

Did you know that 80 percent of our success in learning from other people is based on how well we listen? Listen to Their Answers Leadership Is A Contact Sport Step 2 of 8: Listen! by Marshall Goldsmith In her book My Life in Leadership, Frances Hesselbein, former CEO of the Girl Scouts, CEO of The Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute, …

The best question to ask when soliciting feedback – both at work and at home? “How can I be a better…?” Leadership Is A Contact Sport Step 1 of 8:  Ask! by Marshall Goldsmith “Soliciting feedback” is just what the words imply. It is when we solicit opinions from people about what we are doing wrong. As simple as it …

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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 …

We do not spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half of the leaders I have met don’t need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.