Posts by Kathryn Kee, PCC, M. Ed.
The Leader’s Primary Responsibility – A Clear Focus
As this new year gets well underway it is a great opportunity to pause and simply reflect on your leadership role in providing a clear focus for the work. Here are a few questions to support your thinking: What is the focused mission of the year? What outcomes are the most critical to celebrate…
Read MoreFinding Time
Summer Reading Connections – Part II Another really great article in my pile was by Thomas Oppong, Founder of Alltopstartups. Just look at all the connections for coach leaders who are always needing more time. START AND END YOUR WORK DAY WITH THESE PRINCIPLES IN MIND Time is the raw material of productivity. Time, not…
Read MoreWays to Blab Less
Summer Reading Connections – Part III The last author, Dan, from Saturday Solutions offered a catchy title: Clarity without Blabbing. It caught my eye for the very reason that a reflective leader was working on self-assessment and decided he wanted to blab less and so he wrote Dan requesting some strategies. He was very wise…
Read MoreTake Twelve for Leaders
Part I From People Matters magazine, then again in Critical Thinking, January 2016, there is a look at the competencies of leadership for the future. Almost every article published from the Neuroscience or from business leader publications focus on skills needed by our leaders. We love to have conversations about these ideas in all our seminars. Let’s look…
Read MorePractical Alternatives To Advice – Growing People
Continuing our exploration of the temptation of ADVICE… In Results Coaching: Next Steps, chapter 4, we explore the role of coaching and supervision. The chapter begins with the findings from HR professionals that the most important role of leadership today is to “grow the talent of the employee.” In order to grow talent we grow…
Read MoreFocused Practice Feedback – a Kick Starter!
How do we grow people? How do we build and grow their talent, their knowledge and skills? Use those wonderful conversation skills and ask about the goals they have set, the vision for their work, when it all is celebrated, what will they be celebrating? With highly committed employees they just usually need to reconnect to their vision,…
Read MoreStop Giving Feedback – Start Asking for Feedback
Continuing with what the Neuroleadership Institute found in their research on FEEDBACK, here are a lot of common misperceptions: We think we hate feedback. When someone asks if they can give us feedback, we hear, “Can I criticize your work so I can feel good about myself?” It’s best to focus on errors. The brain…
Read MoreIt’s Time For A Feedback Revolution
In February, Karen Anderson shared the opportunity to review and reconnect to the most essential and required skill in your everyday use. The ability to give skillful reflective feedback influences others to: keep working, reconsider, reflect, see possibilities, study more, give more effort, think about another point of view, desire more learning, be affirmed, get motivated,…
Read MoreThoughts On Advice
When tempted to offer advice or tell others what to do, just consider the possibilities:
Read MoreReasons Why I Don’t Give Advice
ADVICE: It’s a topic that never ceases to emerge when people are learning to coach more effectively. Recently after coaching a participant during one of our seminars, the question was asked, “How do you keep from giving advice?” I answered the question then and with your permission I’d like to explore the topic with you…
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