I live near two major dividers. One is Interstate 70. If you want to drive north of our small town, you have to cross a divided highway where traffic never stops. The way across is an overpass, and you can find one every five to ten miles. Unfortunately, the most convenient one for me seems […]
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Last week, we had our quarterly trainer meeting at Coach Approach Ministries. Danelle and I were walking our trainers through what seems like an infinite list of changes being handed down to us from the International Coaching Federation (ICF). Some of these changes are going to be painful. They will require us to rethink how
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I was teaching a class that had this central idea: Healthy conflict is decision-making. Think about that for a moment. We tend to think of conflict as something that gets in the way of making decisions. If everyone could just get along, stop arguing, and get on the same page, we could finally move forward.
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I wanted to impress people. I thought I should impress people. I thought I was impressive. I’m not saying I actually was impressive in every way I imagined. But I was a standout. I was bright, ambitious, creative, and usually had ideas about what ought to happen next. The problem wasn’t that I had no
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