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Tips on Ways to Begin a Strong Coaching Program
As you consider implementing a coaching program within your district, here are some things we have learned that support a smooth implementation: Provide orientation materials or an orientation for those who will be receiving coaches. If possible, provide a face to face meeting for coaches and those receiving a coach. Program leaders at a minimum…
Read MoreHow Are We Doing?
Lately businesses and service organizations want to know, “How are we doing?” After my medical appointments, I usually receive a survey asking “How did we do? How long did you have to wait? Did you get all of your questions answered?” When I go to the gas pump the machine asks me if I want…
Read MoreListen – Just Listen
If you’ve been through one of our seminars, you’ll remember our focus on “being” a fully committed listener. Over and over again, testimonials come to us about the power of just listening. Here’s an example. A middle school principal in Texas made the decision to “just listen” when her college daughter recently returned from a…
Read MoreWho You Gonna Be?
Recently I’ve been listening to a lot of music by singer-songwriter-coach Barbara McAfee. Some lyrics I love to reference with leaders are from a song entitled, Who You Gonna Be? Here are the lyrics. Who you gonna be while do what you do? How’re gonna show up when you’re passin’ through? I’m livin’ in this…
Read MoreThe Story of the White Cow
Singer-songwriter-coach Barbara McAfee sings a great story about a White Cow. It goes like this: On a small green island, is one white cow. The grass there grows thick and tall. All day the White Cow eats her fill, till she’s eaten it all. The sun sets. The cow grows thin, worried the grass won’t…
Read MoreExercising Your Happy by Being Emotionally Connected
In their book, The Power of Full Engagement, Lohrer & Schwartz suggest that the management of energy is the key to high performance, health and happiness. In order to be happy and balanced leaders must be: Physically energized Emotionally connected Mentally focused Spiritually aligned In the last blog we discussed being physically energized in order…
Read MoreFeedback That Works
This time of the year is heavy on feedback in our systems; summative evaluations, performance reviews, contract renewals; all bring levels of stress to the receiver as well as the giver. The vast majority of the feedback given is to people who are doing great work and good work – it’s so easy to say…
Read MoreFive Ways to Exercise Your Happy By Being Physically Energized
Whether we are coaches or clients, “Happy” is sometimes an elusive concept. So how do we take responsibility for exercising our happy in order to be physically energized? Most of the time when we think of physical exercise, we think of it as getting our body in shape through movement. We usually get happy and…
Read MoreWould You Just Listen?
When I ask you to listen to me and you start giving me advice, you have not done what I asked. When I ask you to listen to me and you begin to tell me why I shouldn’t feel that way, you are trampling on my feelings. When I ask you to listen to me…
Read MoreListening for the Sounds of Spring
With this unusually severe winter in the Midwest, I’ve been very intent on listening for any subtle signs of the approaching spring. The other day I heard a gaggle of geese flying overhead and watched them descend on ice floes in the lake. Another day, I heard an unseen woodpecker tapping out the message that…
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