Two years ago, I sold my company and launched my career as a business coach. To celebrate my work anniversary, I’m relaunching my coaching website! It’s clearer and more informative. I have added pages about What Coaching Is, What Coaching Isn’t, and Does Coaching Work? Updated pages on the services I provide explain how I help people address common career dilemmas and answer common work questions. I hope you will celebrate with me by taking a minute to visit my…
We all handle fear in our particular way. Some ways are healthier than others. Some of us love to be scared. Some of us not so much. As I’ve written before, emotions are filed away in our brains as if there were a file drawer for each emotion. Everything you have ever been afraid of gets filed in the fear drawer, or neural network as a psychologist would call it. If you have unresolved fears from the past, those old…
Positive feedback leads to better results and happier employees. Gallup, the polling agency that has been focusing on employee engagement, is just out with new numbers and a white paper on “Why Employees are Fed Up with Feedback.” Their polling reveals how negative feedback demotivates managers and employees alike in overwhelming numbers. As Gallup reports, only 14% of managers feel good about their ability to give feedback. And a whopping 89.1% of employees who get negative feedback report feeling not…
Affirmations are about actually believing in yourself. When that happens, you start making it true.
How to Encourage Healthy Debate and Challenge Team Thinking Diverse teams increase innovation and improve an organization’s ability to respond to challenges. To harness the power of diversity, leaders need know how to encourage healthy debate. A culture of healthy debate comes from focusing on team basics like: an emphasis on company performance metrics, a genuine interest in others’ ideas, and a demonstrated belief in the ability of people on the team. It also comes from a leader who knows…