Posts in high performance

Seven Irresponsible Reasons to Offer Coaching Services

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  1. People say I am a good listener.
  2. I am really good a giving other people advice.
  3. I was in human resources, organizational development, or management for 20 years….

Cracking the Acknowledgement Code

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February 21, 2017

Based on the book The Motivation Myth and 15 years of experience working with and teaching acknowledgment, this workshop is five hours focused on just one thing: upgrading your communication to get better results with everyone, everywhere.

The Problem of Positive Thinking

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One of the biggest myths of high performance is that positive thinking is a positive thing.

While it might get you to mediocrity, positive thinking often gets in the way of high performers…

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…

Breaking News: Those Goals Aren’t Goals

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As you can imagine, I spend a lot of time talking to people about what they want to accomplish. In fact, after 14 years of talking to people about their goals, I have learned that what most people think are goals are something else…

Pain or Pain?—You Choose

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Life is painful. There, I said it.

Every day we have some sort of pain that shows up:  emotional, physical, mental, something. Consequently, we spend much of our time running from pain. We hire therapists, life and business coaches, or consultants to help us figure out how to get out of pain and stay there…

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…