When you think about leadership effectiveness, respect is actually a pretty low bar to offer colleagues and direct reports. Offering respect is a basic “pay to play” condition for a leader. That makes the lack […]
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I am sending this from my Belgium to Spain scooter trip and I want you to know that I heartily endorse the precepts in this very wise article. Be well and take care of your […]
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We are coming up on the halfway mark of the year—how is your executive vitality doing? Look at your logs that track aspects of your executive vitality. Congratulations if you have exceeded your own expectations. […]
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Trying to coach an executive in a system that remains broken is doomed to fail. It’s summer, let’s think about baseball. If one player is consistently hitting home runs but the other batters can’t hit […]
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In coaching C-suite executives, we hear that many are suffering from travel burn-out. Traveling can be a great personal growth asset, yet often it becomes a liability. What are the signs that travel has burned […]
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Please don’t hire a coach. That may sound odd coming from a successful, committed executive coach who provides Strategic Executive Coaching® to senior executives and Strategic Team Coaching® to senior leadership teams. However, there are […]
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Your Executive Vitality™ is positively affected by the sheer act of having friends in your life. Conversely, constant working, feeling stressed, and thinking you have no time for friendships has a negative impact on both […]
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In our coaching practice, when we, Executive Coaching Network, Inc. (EXCN), deliver Strategic Team Coaching® we typically coach an executive team to formulate Team Agreements, Guiding Principles, Codes of Team Conduct, Standards of Behavior, or […]
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Alternatively… We have all heard the phrase “garbage in/garbage out (GIGO).” See Figure 2: Diminished Input…Diminished Output. The corollary, of course, is “quality in/quality out (QIQO).” See Figure 1: Positive Input…Positive Output. Most of us […]
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In many corporate cultures, “nice” can be a big problem. Being nice can lead to people not getting the feedback they deserve and need, to misunderstandings (due to lack of directness), to a culture of […]
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