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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how much our coaching conversations are just that – conversations. According to Wikipedia, a conversation is a form of interactive, spontaneous communication between two or more people. Did you see those two descriptors? Interactive Spontaneous What does it mean to have an interactive, spontaneous coaching conversation? Aren’t we

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Women and Time Mgt

I didn’t pursue it, but I find myself coaching several excellent women leaders. I’d be thrilled to coach even more. In my experience, women leaders have an advantage because they don’t allow any pretense about performance. Where a man may want to project with me that he has most everything under control, women leaders tend

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Coaching ROI

If you’re not familiar with some business jargon, you might wonder what that typo is in the title of this post.  ROI is shorthand for “Return on Investment” and it’s a quick way of expressing the concern that what I put into something (Investment) needs to get me some results (Return).  The term is technically

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Why Leaders Need a Coach

I’m a coach and trainer of coaches, so it’s no surprise to anyone that I think coaching is great.  Of course, I think pretty much anyone could benefit from working with a coach.  But there’s one group of people I think benefits more than most: leaders. Why do leaders benefit from coaching?  Here are three

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Three Questions

Every coaching conversation is different: different client, different context, different topic, etc.  Coaches have to be able to flex and adapt to all those differences in order to provide valuable coaching.   But while every coaching conversation will unfold in its own unique way, there are some things that need to happen in practically every coaching

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Who Do I Talk to About Quitting

  When I was 10 or 11 years old, I went out for Little League Football. I’m sure my older brothers played football, but they were much older and weren’t playing when my turn came. My dad was never overly involved in my sports so that left mom to prepare me for football. It was

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