Coaching Skills
One Word
I first heard a Superintendent speak about his one word in one of my Webinar check ins. “One Word” for the year. When I first heard about it, I was curious . . . but not enough to learn any more about it. Interesting . . . but not compelling me to action – not…
Read MoreHumility vs. Hubris
Results Coaching Global faculty instructors and coaches had a strong presence at the 2019 Learning Forward conference held in Dallas earlier this month. As we presented, coached and had casual conversations with others during this learner-focused conference, we continued to receive push back on the idea that “advice is toxic”. People embrace coaching—to a certain…
Read MoreBoosting Our Emotional Intelligence: The 90 Second Rule
The focus of this month’s social media is to examine three ways to boost our emotional intelligence while managing our reactions to others. In the Ezine we looked at Mary Beth O’Neill’s four steps for reactivity management. In this Blog, we will look at Jill Bolte Taylor’s 90 Second Rule. In her book, My Stroke…
Read MoreBoosting Our Emotional Intelligence: The 3R Model
Continuing our social media focus on ways to boost our emotional intelligence while managing our reactions to others, we will learn a strategy offered by Tasha Eurich in her book Insight. Previously, we looked at Mary Beth O’Neill’s four steps for reactivity management and Jill Bolte Taylor’s 90 Second Rule. Eurich offers the 3R Model…
Read MoreAll the Puzzle Pieces Came Together
In the previous e-zine, we wrote about El Campo school district, and the focus on results coaching. Student success was achieved throughout the district. This story highlights one of the success stories. Northside Elementary School historically struggled with student achievement scores. At the end of the 2017 school year, 70% of 5th grade students passed…
Read MoreManaging our Biases
We define coaching as being nonjudgmental. Yet we know that we do have judgment, biases and filters that pop up as interference from time to time as we are acting as thinking partners with another. The first step in managing our own biases, filters, judgments, and assumptions is to recognize that we have them and…
Read MoreFocus On What You Want
Recently, I arrived early for the final day of a four-day Leadership Coaching for High Performance Seminar. On top of one of the RCG seminar notebooks were two drawings by one of the participants who had captured two critical points dealing with leadership and coaching. Both the SCARF and TARP ideas come from the work…
Read MoreTesting Out the Accuracy of a Fear That May Be Holding You Back from Goal Achievement
How are you doing on accomplishing the goal you set for yourself earlier this month? If you have achieved the goal, a big congratulations to you! Which of the strategies worked best for you? What resources did you call on to support goal achievement? What obstacles did you face and overcome to achieve your goal?…
Read MoreWhat do you want in your life in 2018?
“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” Melody Beattie February is the time of year when our minds turn to hearts, love, and gratitude. We’ll focus on the value of the last one – gratitude. What is it? Here is one of the multitude of definitions…
Read MoreAdvice
In absolutely every seminar we have, someone, sometime, somewhere, says, “Isn’t it okay, sometimes, to just tell people what to do?” It’s such an important question and it circles us back to some key beliefs and the core purpose of growing people. So, for this month, let’s just briefly examine those beliefs and answer that…
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