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Is Personal Coaching Exclusively for People with Problems? A potential client wrote me an email the other day. He explained that he had decided that he didn’t need personal coaching nor professional coaching. He said his business was going fine and he didn’t have any emotional issues to work out. His reasoning raised one of…

One common complaint among leaders is that they feel bogged down by verbal details from direct reports.  For this reason, I have created a list of five tips for having a great work relationship and to provide direct reports with just the right amount of information to your boss. (Bosses, I suggest that you offer…

Coaching isn’t only for people facing problems. It can help you discover new possibilities, build confidence, make more intentional decisions, and continue growing, no matter where you are starting from.

I stumbled upon Thomas Oppong’s article, Why Eliminating Behaviors That Make You Miserable Can Make You Happier, which references a book by Randy J. Paterson, Ph.D., How to Be Miserable: 40 Strategies You Already Use.  I thought it could be helpful to create an exercise to enable others to practice the valuable advice  on how…

In this TED talk video, Simon Sinek takes about qualities that good leaders have. One attribute that Simon highlights in the video is willingness to sacrifice. Simon connects how military leaders willing to sacrifice themselves builds trust and safety among their subordinates - a quality that many business leaders are not known for. Compellingly, he…

I always say, it's better to disappoint and disappear We’ve all been in situations where we were confronted with having to disappoint someone, whether it's a friend, family member or a business partner. We kept putting it off because we wanted to avoid the ensuing conflict, justifiably or not. That's where personal growth and self-help…