Posts in leadership

The Elephant in the Room: Emotional Culture

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Well... I’ve been keeping a secret.  If you know me well,…

What participants are saying about Coaching Tools for Leaders

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  “A fresh, new approach that focused on skills and tools…

Something Borrowed

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Do you borrow things from others? It’s a cool thing. They have something we need temporarily, they are willing to let us use it, and we agree to give it back in the same condition that we received it. I don’t know about you, but letting others borrow my things makes me feel good,

You Can’t Policy Performance

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Oh, I know, it sure would be nice if we could, and boy do we try, but when we use policies to try to improve performance it almost always backfires. Why?

Saved by Belief

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It’s no secret I am a student of high performance and high performers. So recently, when I got tickets to attend a taping of Oprah’s LifeClass, with Oprah and Joel Osteen, I was really excited. It was another opportunity to study not one, but two, high performers. In the two hours they were on stage they both said a lot of things that were amazingly valuable to the audience. Heck, they were valuable to me, but they weren’t about high performance…

The High Cost of Getting Your Foot in the Door

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Recently a colleague called me to ask for some help figuring…