Use Stories to Lead Change
Stories engage emotions, and emotions make things happen. More often than not, great leaders are great storytellers.
Coaching Creates Authentic Branding
Check out my chapter in this new book to find out why a perfect method for achieving authentic branding. No one knows your business better than you do. Your unique authentic branding is your unique value proposition. That’s why you are the most authentic voice for your brand. Using the tools of coaching can help you bring your voice and your ideas forward to create a brand that is truly authentic. Your brand can be the most valuable asset your business…
Three Negotiating Mistakes—and How to Correct Them
Everybody negotiates. Avoid these three negotiating mistakes. We negotiate the big stuff, like salaries and contracts, and we negotiate the little stuff, curfews and who will do the dishes. From my years as an entrepreneur and my coach training, I’ve honed my negotiating skills. I’m not supposed to make negotiating mistakes, but it happened to me recently. In the end, even though I got what I wanted, the whole process left me feeling that I was in the wrong. My…
There’s No Such Thing as Negative Feedback
There’s Positive Feedback, Coaching and Counseling When people genuinely want to do well, and nearly all employees do, a coaching approach to feedback works best. Recently my client Christina* was taking her new hire, Julie, along for a meeting with a vendor. Christina, Julie, and the vendor were on site, looking at an event space. The vendor was recommending more tables. “I think we need to do it,” said Christina, “but I’ll have to get my boss to approve it.”…
How a Vision Becomes a Reality
Today is the 25th anniversary of Sleepless in Seattle, and my husband, Gary Foster, was the driving creative force behind the film. Of all the people I’ve learned from in my life, I’ve learned more from him than anyone else about the ability to collaborate, be tactfully assertive, and build a great team in order to realize a common goal and vision. Read his piece on what it took to turn a good script from a then-unknown writer into a…