Ultimate Icebreaker – Secret Santa
“Who was your hero when you were 8?” Typical icebreaker question – right? And these are fine when members of a group don’t know each other. Safely superficial. Anything deeper would be inappropriate – too personal, too soon. But what kind of icebreaker can help a team go deeper and increase their trust when they […]
You Are Whole!
YOU ARE INHERENTLY WHOLE! In this context, “whole” means complete, fully integrated, not lacking anything. A coach assumes that each person has the innate knowledge, wisdom, and power to · ask and answer the deep questions, · face and embrace their shadow side, and · be the gift to the world that the world desperately […]
You Are Resourceful!
YOU ARE INNATELY RESOURCEFUL, according to Coaches Training Institute, where I was trained as a coach. What does this mean? That you have deep wisdom which will tell you the truth and keep you on your path. It means that you can get the job done – that you can figure out how to get […]
You are Creative!
YOU ARE INNATELY CREATIVE, according to the Coaches Training Institute, where I got my training to be a coach. What does this mean? It means that the coach does not have to be the creative one, furnishing ideas and leading the client forward. It means the client is fully capable of creating the future they […]
Does Your Business Serve Your Life?
Does your business serve your life? 1. What do you want out of life? 2. How can your business help you achieve that? Business can, and should, serve your life. In fact, business should bring you life, instead of the other way around. Business is a tangible manifestation of the owner’s life, rather than a separate, self-contained […]
Embracing Pain!
Most of us avoid pain. That’s completely normal. However, an effective leader learns to embrace one type of pain – the pain of knowing how things COULD be, and not yet being there. That pain, when harnessed appropriately and effectively, creates the power to make change happen. The power to do whatever it takes to […]
Going Deep
“It’s easier to ride a horse in the direction that it’s going. And if the horse is dead, get off.” When you can’t get the results you need, what do you do? When you wake up tired, again, because your work no longer brings you joy, what do you do? When nothing is working, it’s […]
Real Leadership
Real Leadership Begins Today, but NOT with our political leaders. Real leadership no longer resides in the candidates or our elected officials. They may have power, but let us not confuse power with leadership. They’ve done their damage to our nation’s discourse. And at some point this evening this election, hopefully, will be over, and if there is […]
Lonely at the Top!
It’s lonely at the top. Nowhere is this more clear than when a leader has to make a decision. Because of the number of voices urging different alternatives, making the final decision is a lonely process. Even a decision to let the majority opinion prevail is a decision. And no matter what the leader decides, […]
True Cost of Procrastination
I’ve been meaning to write about this for a couple weeks, but I kept putting it off J. So yes, I can speak personally about the cost of procrastination. Until I did some deep-dive introspection, I assumed that the cost of procrastination was the total cost of leaving something not done. For example, not registering […]