Posts Tagged ‘The Experience’

Are You Raising Kids or Growing Adults?

Friday, October 8th, 2010

Numer­ous stud­ies have shown us that many young adults are strug­gling as they make their first pil­grim­ages into the work­force, mar­riage, and par­ent­ing. One major cause of this, accord­ing to researchers, is that they are not equipped with the real life skills required to nav­i­gate suc­cess­fully through these sig­nif­i­cant changes.

This is a par­ent­ing issue.

Just a few weeks ago, my wife Sheri and I had the priv­i­lege of lead­ing a par­ent­ing work­shop at the Build­ing Cham­pi­ons Expe­ri­ence. We called the pre­sen­ta­tion, “Are you Rais­ing Kids or Grow­ing Adults?” I think the ques­tion is worth pondering.

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Finding Those Who Have IT

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010

It is good to be back in the office today after a huge week in Sun­river. Some of you might know that we just fin­ished The Build­ing Cham­pi­ons Expe­ri­ence, which is the real crown jewel event for our com­pany.  It con­sists of four days of busi­ness and life coach­ing with over 225 atten­dees, and it‘s a ton of fun for our team!

Dur­ing the Expe­ri­ence, there are main-stage lessons and small break­out ses­sions on top­ics rang­ing from life plan­ning to excep­tional cus­tomer ser­vice to best prac­tices for strate­gic think­ing. With this wide range of top­ics, there was one ques­tion I was asked more than any other dur­ing the week, and it is the basis for this post.

“How have you assem­bled such an amaz­ing team of car­ing and incred­i­bly tal­ented people?”

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The Building Champions Experience

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

Hey there readers,

I will not be writ­ing a reg­u­lar post this week. My team and I are out of the office, lead­ing our third annual Build­ing Cham­pi­ons Expe­ri­ence in cen­tral Ore­gon. I will do my best to share key thoughts and insights from the week via Twit­ter, and you can also fol­low along on our BCE Blog.

I will be back to my reg­u­lar blog­ging next week.  I appre­ci­ate you read­ing what I have to say, and your addi­tions and comments!

Cheers,

Can You Feel It?

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

I had a coach­ing ses­sion last week with a client who owns a great com­pany here in the North­west. Like many busi­ness lead­ers, his nat­ural behav­ioral style is on the dom­i­nant side, which means he is a take-charge kind of guy. For those of you famil­iar with the DISC behav­ioral lan­guage, he is a High D.

I know this type very, very well.

Stud­ies have shown that there is a cor­re­lat­ing emo­tion for each behav­ioral style which emerges when that per­son is frus­trated or chal­lenged. For a High D, the emo­tion is anger.

In this ses­sion, my client shared that he feels some very real phys­i­cal changes when he is being chal­lenged or threat­ened. What he expe­ri­enced has every­thing to do with Emo­tional Intel­li­gence, or EQ.

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Asset or Advantage?

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Asset or AdvantageLast fall, at the Build­ing Cham­pi­ons Expe­ri­ence, I gave the open­ing pre­sen­ta­tion.  The topic was cen­tered on best prac­tices for suc­cess in chal­leng­ing times. Ear­lier in the year, as I pre­pared for this pre­sen­ta­tion, I inter­viewed sev­eral clients and friends who serve as lead­ers of large orga­ni­za­tions to iden­tify the most com­mon behav­ioral disciplines. 

Dur­ing my inter­view with a client who is the CEO of a UK based petro­leum addi­tives orga­ni­za­tion, the topic of team came up.  He said that he believes we fall short as lead­ers when we see our teams as an “asset.”  He explained that peo­ple do not want to feel owned, or to have their value sum­ma­rized on a cor­po­rate bal­ance sheet. 

His belief is that our team is more than an asset.  They are our com­pet­i­tive advantage.

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