Leadership

It’s easy to be cool when everything is going smoothly. It’s quite another story when the demands of the job – let’s call it “the pressures” – rise to what could be considered a boiling point. What is a leader to do – when the pressure is getting to you? Here are three steps that we believe will…

An excerpt from Results Coaching Next Steps (publish date Fall, 2016) We have been fascinated with Performance Research and the role of leadership for the 21st century for over 20 years now. It has been rewarding to read the research that has and continues to be done that is making us aware of critically important new…

Forbes offers many resources for leadership, and employee, Drew Henson, recently offered his learning as a contributor. He confirms the importance of growing talent…and reports of the research that calls to leaders to make talent a strategic priority. What’s needed is a deep-rooted conviction, among … leaders, that people really matter — that leaders must…

Intentional leaders desire to inspire, influence and grow the talent in the organization. It can begin by just dedicating part of each work day to focusing on people. Even 10 or 15 minute conversations have the potential to drive and energize talent. Remember that we always say, “Every conversation is not a coaching conversation, but every conversation uses…

Come – Let’s go to a place of extraordinary results. A place where every person feels a deep sense of purpose and moral responsibility to engage, invest and achieve at high levels, individually and as teams. Come – Let’s go to where trust triumphs over distrust. Where vulnerability, honesty, loyalty, respect, joy and a sense…

With this being the month of LOVE, the purpose of sharing these words and thoughts has been to hopefully provide a moment of quiet reflection on the LOVE in what we do. Educators create the world by creating citizens of the future who will inherit this world from us; they can shape it and change…

“Yesterday I was clever and wanted to save the world. Today I am wise and I am changing myself.” ~ Rumi The quote above introduces the first chapter of our upcoming book, Results Coaching Next Steps: Leading for Growth and Change. We purposefully chose this quote because the message speaks volumes for today’s leaders. Real change…

Rest. It is critical to our health, survival, pleasure and performance. Yet, countless leaders might say that rest is more of a luxury than a reality, since they are burning the candle at both ends – particularly as the school year comes to a close. They find it hard or impossible to get the recommended…

We are all social beings and in the busyness of our work it is important to remember this. Feeling tired and exhausted? Try the technique of social rest. Have lunch with someone you work with and give that person and yourself the gift of a light conversation where you share fun stories. As each person…