Tag: coaching
CARE To Make The Best Of Negative Feedback
Consider context. Assess options. React to encourage/cut off. Evolve attitudes, relationships, behaviors.
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Coaching Content, Sequence, Emphasis
Assuming the main reason you're coaching someone is to help them improve what they're doing, job #1 has to be making sure they don't get worse. This is why it's…
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The Leverage You Need
Much of onboarding is just common sense. There's very little you'll have to do to manage the process of going into a new job or role that you don't know…
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In and Down, Up and Out (Part I)
Rick’s Experience One of my clients (I'll call him Rick) was brought into a finance organization that for all intents and purposes was broken. The company had grown rapidly through both acquisition…
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Poor Hand-Offs: The Overriding Onboarding Issue
Over the past several weeks, we’ve laid out 11 onboarding issues with 11 suggestions for how to deal with them. (They are recapped below.) The overriding issue The overriding issue…
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The Leadership Paradox, I: Managing Potential
One of the many paradoxes of great leadership is the dialectic of developing people versus upgrading talent. Great leaders are able to do both, primarily by intuitively assessing potential. This…
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Leading Up and Out, Managing In and Down (Part I)
Rick’s Experience One of my clients named Rick was brought into a finance organization that for all intents and purposes was broken. The company had grown rapidly through both acquisition…
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Great Leadership
Some thoughts on great leadership. The more we get into this, the more we're becoming convinced that it's all about inspiring and enabling others to do their absolute best, together…
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