Posts Tagged ‘Coaching’

The Power of One

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

As I write this, I am in Wash­ing­ton DC as a guest of our client and part­ner Chick-fil-A at their annual conference.

The event kicked off last night, with about 3600 of their team mem­bers in atten­dance. It was a pow­er­ful open­ing, with music by Israel Houghton and a great mes­sage by Bill Hybels. Bill is the Sr. Pas­tor of Wil­low Creek Church in Chicago, and he founded the Lead­er­ship Sum­mit which impacts thou­sands of lead­ers every year from around the world.

What struck me last night was the theme. I’m not sure whether Israel and Bill had synched up prior to that night, but their mes­sage was clear.

Each of us can be used to for­ever impact the life of one person.

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Your Perfect Week

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Think about the best work week you have ever had.  Maybe you just started day­dream­ing about that award trip to the Bahamas, or the lead­er­ship con­fer­ence (golf­ing vaca­tion) in Palm Springs….but for the pur­pose of this exer­cise, let’s con­sider some­thing else.

Think about a week that you really brought your “A” game to the office. 

You were on time, fully present and pre­pared for all your meet­ings.  You closed the deals you were work­ing on.  You exe­cuted with excel­lence.  Not only this, but you had time to think, to plan, to exer­cise, and you were home in time for din­ner!  Did I men­tion email?  Yes, you were even caught up on all email cor­re­spon­dence.  Not just your work email, but your Linkedin, Face­book, and per­sonal email accounts.

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A Day That Will Change Your Life

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

BCE Life PlanningAs many of you know, I have spent the last 13 years of my career build­ing an exec­u­tive coach­ing com­pany. 

What my team and I get to do each and every day is to help busi­ness pro­fes­sion­als improve their think­ing, their abil­i­ties and their actions.  We walk our clien­tele through a model we call the Core Four, which is com­prised of four crit­i­cal ele­ments:  Life Plan­ning, Vision, Busi­ness Plan­ning and Pri­or­ity Management.

When we begin our jour­ney with a new client, the Life Plan comes first.

I believe Life Plan­ning is not just a strat­egy for life, but also for busi­ness.  Think about it for a moment.  What causes a huge per­cent­age of pro­fes­sion­als to crash and burn, or to just per­form at mediocre levels? 

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Are You Speaking the Same Language?

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

LanguageA few months ago I had the won­der­ful priv­i­lege of hav­ing an exec­u­tive client come to my office for a full-day coach­ing ses­sion.  The pur­pose of the extended ses­sion was to help her sharpen the skills required for her to advance as a leader in her com­pany.  My client is incred­i­bly smart, a very hard worker, well respected and pas­sion­ate about her long­stand­ing role in this inter­na­tional orga­ni­za­tion.  She is also the high­est rank­ing female leader in her male dom­i­nated firm. 

We planned to spend the day work­ing on her soft skills so that she could improve how she inter­acts with the var­i­ous behav­ioral styles within her com­pany and exec­u­tive team.  One of the more pow­er­ful exer­cises we worked on was to dive deep into the DISC language. 

If you are not famil­iar with DISC, I pro­vided an overview in last week’s blog, Under­stand­ing DISC.

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