Posts by Kathryn Kee, PCC, M. Ed.
Part 2: Grossman’s “GREAT EIG8T”
Leading with heart can be especially challenging for leaders who are constantly under pressure from all different directions, as we are today. In this article, we invite you to consider the first four of Grossman’s “GreatEi8ht” strategies and align with our coaching strategies and tools. NUMBER 1: LEAD YOURSELF FIRST How many times in our…
Read MoreLeading with the Coach Heart
School is starting again and with that glorious time of the year also comes much planning and thoughtfulness about the past year, its goals and challenges; and as always, the new challenges and craziness are coming right at us. In this unprecedented time of societal and economic upheaval, leaders feel more powerless and anxious than…
Read MoreHow to Support People to Excel
If we continue to spend our time identifying what people are not doing and giving people feedback (advice) about how to be better, we’ll languish in the business of adequacy. To get into the excellence business we need some new techniques: Look for the outcomes; what people are doing that is working. Replay your instinctive…
Read MoreGive Advice = Change Today/Avoid Advice = Grow the Future
You remember last month one of the aspects that Karen Anderson lifted up in her article was about easy change and hard change. You were reminded of our Powerful Coaching seminar: technical change vs adaptive change. Adaptive change is the hard stuff; changing your mindset, your core principles and values. Dumping the habit of giving…
Read MoreADVICE…THE GIFT THAT DOES NOT KEEP ON GIVING
April is always a month of hopefulness, new beginnings, and smiles! Last month, my colleague, Karen Anderson, shared some juicy learnings from the book, The Advice Trap by Michael B Stanier. Everyone is hopeful when they ask for advice. This is a topic that is ubiquitous to every seminar we provide on coaching so it’s…
Read MoreDecember Wish #3 – Presume Positive Intent
One of the best gifts I ever received was learning from neuroscience about the brain. It just amazes me that if I don’t know or understand something about a situation or a person, my brain just naturally will default to negative thinking. It’s so crazy. Well, guess what? Our year has been packed with uncertainty…
Read MoreDecember Wish #2 – The Powerful Paraphrase
The last year has been a hurricane of conflicting political messages, omnipresent in our world of news, print, and media. Our country is more polarized than it has been in many years and it’s crept up on us. Even after a bitter and emotional election our country is deeply divided, and we are realizing there…
Read MoreA December Wish List
Wish #1 – Committed Listening “December is a month of joy and happiness and to finish what you started.” What a year we have had, a year we shall never forget. A year that has enveloped us with uncertainty and a huge range of emotions. And here we are, since everything changed in March, we…
Read MoreThe Speaking Up Continuum
NLI sorts speaking up into three distinct categories: sharing your ideas, questioning other people’s decisions, and challenging other people’s behavior. These categories sit on a continuum – known as the Speaking UP Continuum – which ranges from least threatening to most threatening. One reason this continuum is so important is that if people can’t speak…
Read MoreWhat We Miss When We Don’t Speak Up
Ethical breaches loom large in people’s mind, but the reality is they happen much less frequently than the speaking-up moments that produce new ideas or refine strategy. These are the moments, we argue, toward which leaders should devote the bulk of their attention. In one study… 40% of people who didn’t speak up during a…
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