Musings on Coaching and Leadership.

Informative Articles I Hope Will Inspire You.

Three Tips to Get the Most from Your Coaching Sessions

Three Tips to Get the Most from Your Coaching Sessions

When it comes to coaching, the math is pretty simple. The more you put into it, the more you get out of it. If you put some amount of effort into coaching, you will get some results. You’ll probably learn a few things about yourself, come up with better ways to...

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How to Develop an Effective, Impactful Coaching Relationship

How to Develop an Effective, Impactful Coaching Relationship

Like any relationship, coaching is a two-way street. It’s only as successful as your commitment to your coach and your coach’s commitment to you. But how do you ensure you and your coach stay on the same page?  In our work with clients, we’ve found that explicit,...

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Become Highly Coachable – 10 Traits to Keep in Mind

Become Highly Coachable – 10 Traits to Keep in Mind

One-on-one coaching can transform both your career and personal life, but it requires commitment from two important players: you and your coach. While you want to find a truly exceptional coach to accompany you on your journey, your ability to be coached is infinitely...

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Naked But Not Afraid Now

Naked But Not Afraid Now

What I don’t want you to know about me is that I spent most of my life loathing the notion of being vulnerable. Here I am, supposedly this iron-willed champion of CEOs, senior leaders, and captains of industry. Yet, up until about 2006, I held a deep-seated belief...

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Four-Year-Olds and Living Authentically

Four-Year-Olds and Living Authentically

 “It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively--which means to live authentically--is an act of high courage. That is why so many people spend the better part of their lives in hiding--from others and also from themselves.” ―...

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Endless Possibilities

Endless Possibilities

It was a sensational Colorado summer afternoon and we were enjoying a day at the pool as a family. My daughter Alexa was just a one-year-old toddler, gleefully running barefoot in her swimsuit across the cement into the wading pool. Her Dad and I were dutifully...

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Discovering Your Life’s Work

Discovering Your Life’s Work

There’s a big difference between being good at something and discovering your true passions and life’s work. While I think I intuitively already knew this, I didn’t realize how large the chasm between the two is until I experienced it firsthand for myself. Despite...

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Service With An Open Heart

Service With An Open Heart

I grew up working in a family-owned retail business, an 11,000 square foot variety/drugstore. My first job was sweeping the cigarette butts from the red and white checkerboard floors at the tender age of ten for just 25 cents an hour. I soon graduated to running the...

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Leading with Love in the Workplace

Leading with Love in the Workplace

I have a fire burning in the very depth of my soul and it has been burning for a very long time. During my time as a leader inside corporate, as an employee engagement facilitator, and as an executive coach, I have been privy to the immense stress, intimidation, and...

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