Category: Leadership Practices

Why Coaching for Personal Growth

Why Coaching? What do people coach on? How could it support me? Here are some examples of coaching agendas / priorities: LIFE or PERSONAL GROWTH / DEVELOPMENT COACHING I am ready to design my environment to profoundly support, stimulate or inspire me. I would like to pursue several personal interests

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Be a Good Teammate

“One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team” (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar). A good teammate understands that no matter what position you may play, whether you are the best player on the team or on the field, your nothing without your teammates. The

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This Week I Challenge You (part 2)

3. FEAR DOES NOT NECESSARILY MEAN “STOP.” Fear is as powerful as you allow it to be. Most of us feel fear and interpret that feeling as a warning to stop moving forward. In truth, we should interpret most fear as a natural emotion that pops up every time we

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This Week I Challenge You (part 1)

This week, I challenge you to consider the lessons your life is offering you right now. I say, “offering” because God offers lessons, but it is up to us to learn from them. If we don’t learn, the same lessons are offered again and again. Through both frustrations and exciting

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Why Coaching for Small Businesses

Why Coaching? What do people coach on? How could it support me? Here are some examples of coaching agendas / priorities: COACHING FOR SMALL BUSINESS I have an idea for a new business; I need to figure out if it is a good fit for me. I need to create

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When My Work Environment Feels Stressful, What Can I Do To Relax Me?

If you have a cluttered, boring or uninspired work environment it makes it more difficult to be there.  1)      Set your “stage” for work. What inspires you, what relaxes you, what brings you joy? Decorate your office with some “art”… some people put motivational quotes or passages, pictures of your family,

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What Successful People Do…..

While this can look different for everyone, there are perhaps some common themes. Note, this is not “things you have heard or should do”, rather what you DO that sets you apart from others who desire or aspire to be where you are. Maybe you have a signature belief or

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How Do You Keep Focused and Grounded?

Here is a one-page dashboard you can create to keep you focused and grounded. On a single piece of paper, write down a couple of sentences to answer these questions: What is your vision for your organization, expressed in a way that inspires you? How would you describe your organization’s

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How To Eliminate the Inessential

“Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.” — Leo Babauta TIP: How do you do this? Make a list of everything you do in a week (or month). You can focus on your business or your whole life. Then go back and rate each item as

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