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Coaching Research: Examining the Influence of Goal Orientation on Leaders’ Professional Development

Whether you’re an executive coach or not, Rosanne Scriffingnano’s paper “Coaching within organisations: examining the influence of goal orientation on leaders’ professional development” (Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, Vol. 4, No. 1, March 2011, 20-31) provides some essential considerations about the impact of clients’ goal orientation on their development. Given the [...]

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3 Easy Things New Leaders Can Do To Increase Odds Of Success

Have you read Scott Eblin’s book The Next Level? It’s an amazing book, and I love Scott’s blog post below where he boils it down to the three simple things that new leaders can do to increase the odds of success. Frankly, even if you’re not a new leader, this is sound advice! And [...]

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Where Coaching Can Best Impact Technical Organizations

Leading coaches Charles E. Smith, PhD., and Suzi Pomerantz posted an article called Success in Today’s Economy Requires Executives to Take Responsibility for Two Worlds and we’d love your input! The basic premise is that particularly in companies or agencies implementing technology-based projects, leaders must recognize and attend to the duality of the two worlds [...]

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Symposium Supplies Space to Study Sustainability

What is sustainability as it pertains to coaches and coaching programs?
This is one question among many that 40 professionals convened in Washington, D.C. last week (June 24-25) to explore at the ICCO Symposium; a learning event for multiple stakeholders of coaching in organizations. The beautiful McLean, Virginia office space for the event was generously provided [...]

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The Power of Contagion Goes Both Ways

Leading Coach Jeremy Robinson launched a new blog in October that I just have to share with you!
He had me from his opening post: The Financial Crisis and a pathology of the Leadership Contagion where he shares his equation explaining emotional contagion:

Emotions are contagious.
Emotions are highly contagious amongst groups.
The workplace is a group.
The workplace [...]

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Success Factors: Leadership, People, Strategy and Differentiation

Leading Coach Andrew Boddice and his partner conducted research across the top 500 businesses in Scotland. This article is the second in a three-part series. Leaders of organizations must be able to create the right environment for
employees and articulate the direction of the business.
You can download the PDF of the article to read it in [...]

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Your Diagnosis: PDD

I’m delighted to have permission to share with you this engaging piece by one of my mentors on the malady he has dubbed Possibility Deficit Disorder. It’s a pandemic! I’d love your thoughts and reactions. Read on and login to be able to comment below.
Possibility Deficit Disorder (PDD) tm
by Charles E. Smith and Donald Duprey
What [...]

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The Key to Innovation is Community Conversation

“Social media has reached a tipping point as a way of connecting with others, but it has also transformed the way businesses are run, and even the top-down ethos from which many organizations operate. Marketers no longer “own” brand messages, but are rather building their brand equity through relationship building; they are becoming experts in [...]

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How to Overcome Overwhelm

Distraction creates OVERWHELM.
It’s a pandemic these days how many of us feel continual overwhelm.
I see it in the executives I coach, I see it in leaders everywhere, and I see it in school children.
But I’m getting ahead of myself.
Focused, Engaged, Present
I recently spent time coaching a team of scientists leading a large scale project for [...]

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Over 50 BIG Questions! Part 2: ROI and Business Benefit

In this second installment of the BIG questions we received, there were a number of questions grouped in the category of ROI or business benefit. Please be sure to add your comments and reactions in the comment section below!
Part 2: ROI and Business Benefit
1. Do I need a coach to improve my business? Will a [...]

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