How to Create Inspiring Competition

June 1, 2011

Leadership Coaching Notes J U N E   2 0 1 1 How to Create Inspiring Competition Thanks for re-subscribing to the Corporate Adventure® and Energy to Spare™community! I look forward to exchanging ideas and discoveries on the journey of creating outstanding results. Please share your feedback and requests, anytime! A Game for the Ages […]

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Get in Shape to Lead

May 3, 2011

Leadership Coaching Notes  M A Y 2 0 1 1 Get in Shape to Lead Please Choose to Receive Leadership Coaching Notes! We’re updating our mailing list. Within the week, you’ll receive an email asking you to re-subscribe to Corporate Adventure’s mailing list. Look for this one-time opportunity to sign up and keep receiving valuable, […]

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Improve Your Coaching

April 3, 2011

Leadership Coaching Notes  APRIL 2011 Improve Your Coaching Mitch’s organization announced that senior leaders would be assigned two high-potential staff from another function to coach. He learned that his coachees would rate the value of his coaching as part of his performance review. Knowing that good intention wasn’t enough to produce good results, he asked […]

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Leading Change: It’s a Chess Game

March 2, 2011

Leadership Coaching Notes MARCH 2011 Like a chess game, leading change is a lot about continuous and skillful “positioning.” Chess masters consider how to respond to the variety of possible choices their opponents might make – more than a dozen moves ahead before they move. (I find it mind boggling!) Fundamentally, masters of change (chess […]

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Exhausted? 3 Ideas for Making Change

February 17, 2011

Leadership Coaching Notes FEBRUARY 2011 Exhausted? 3 Ideas for Making a Change Do you feel like Sisyphus, the king who Zeus condemned to push a giant boulder up a hill for all eternity? You recall it rolled to the bottom before he reached the top so he never experienced success. I’ve heard leaders say, usually […]

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Parenting Your Boss

January 8, 2011

Leadership Coaching Notes JANUARY 2011 Parenting Your Boss Research from the Gallup Organization, reported in Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements, © 2010, found that the quality of people’s relationships with their bosses is a major factor in their levels of motivation, productivity, and even physical health. But, they also report a study at Princeton University […]

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Good Choices in Hard Times

December 9, 2010

Leadership Coaching Notes DECEMBER 2010 Good Choices in Hard Times I knew Alan put on his upbeat leader’s face to inspire his team, but I could tell from his posture that he was discouraged. He was worn down from weeks of mostly bad news and knowing that there wasn’t much hope of relief given the […]

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Balancing in an Unbalanced World

November 2, 2010

Leadership Coaching Notes NOVEMBER 2010 Balancing in an Unbalanced World An Outdated Idea? Many people laugh when someone talks about “work-life balance.” It’s so “90’s.” It’s just impossible in today’s 24/7 world. But still…, many leaders I know long for it. What are we missing? Fact: We’re Always Falling Off Balance As I explored balance, […]

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Ms. GPS’ Lessons for Helping Others Achieve Their Goals

October 8, 2010

Leadership Coaching Notes OCTOBER 2010 Ms. GPS’ Lessons for Helping Others Achieve Their Goals Ms. GPS is the voice of the amazing technology that helps us navigate through unknown territory to arrive at a hard-to-reach destination easily and directly. Global positioning devices have saved many of us lots of time and frustration. (OK, and occasionally […]

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Results Driven?

September 3, 2010

Leadership Coaching Notes SEPTEMBER 2010 Results Driven? Like most leaders I know, I’m results driven. I take a lot of pride in accomplishing things well. When a mentor asked me what a “result” was, it seemed a curious question. Wasn’t the answer obvious? My Old Definition of a Result: I answered that a result is […]

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