I saw this article from Lolly Daskal, author, and executive coach, called How Can an Executive Coach Make You a Great Leader? It reminded me that there are so many benefits for a leader who has a coach. I wanted to share some of my experience of having a coach and ideas for you to consider should you decide you might want to hire a coach. The Beginning of My Coaching Experience I remember when I hired my first coach in 2012….
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One year ago today I launched The Visibility Factor book out into the world! I thought you might like a peek behind the curtain at what that day was like for me! It was like giving birth to a child (without having to go to the hospital, the pain, having a crying infant, and the getting no sleep part) where everyone was excited that this “baby” called The Visibility Factor had been born! It was a celebration that included, phone…
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I heard an interview with Andy McKay who is the Director of Player Development for the Seattle Mariners Baseball Team over the weekend. It was very insightful for me as a coach as he talked about how they work with the baseball players to have success on the field. Most people think about the coaches that are there during the game with the players, but there are a lot of other coaches helping to support the players in the background. …
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Yesterday’s post talked about the coaching mistakes that leaders can make and how to learn from them to improve their leadership. The speed at which things are happening now is so fast, that it a challenge for leaders to stay on top of everything. Sure it would be really simple to just tell your team what to do and then have them go do it. However, that will prevent them from being able to learn how to lead, problem solve and…
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In yesterday’s post I shared some of my story on how coaching helped me through a tough situation and impacted my style of leadership. I know that not everyone has been lucky enough to work for someone who is a coaching leader. I have definitely worked for some leaders who were very poor at leadership in general. They had the title, but were poor examples of what a leader should be and certainly not someone that I wanted to follow. To…
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Bill Gates once said, “Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.” This applies in leadership as well. Coaching can take you to the next level. Why struggle with issues and challenges by yourself? I didn’t hire my own coach until later in my career. My coach helped me through a really tough time in my career and I owe her a big debt of gratitude. She helped…
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Welcome to the Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary! This week’s summary includes: Failing forward, how to help others deal with change, being a good learner to improve leadership, leading in uncertain times, best leaders are the best coaches, do you need to make a change on your team, helping your team connect with you, are you encouraging risk, approaches to having difficult conversations Articles/Ted Talks/Quotes: Did you ever fail forward? http://goo.gl/NdYbVs via @MarcellaBremer Failing forward implies moving…
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Client Question: “How do you know that it is time to make a change on your team that may result in someone leaving the organization? It depends on the type of situation you are facing. If the person is doing something really blatant that warrants their termination, then it is easier. Get HR involved and talk to them about what occurred and move forward with a course of action. However, it is the other situations where they are doing just…
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Welcome to the Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary! This week’s summary includes: characteristics of a great leader, defining leadership, how to get noticed as a leader, why is being a leader so hard, thought leadership, leadership agility, starting a new career, did you aspire to be a leader, what type of impression do you want to leave, can you think positively Articles/Ted Talks/Quotes: 10 impressive characteristics great leaders have by Tegan Jones Great leaders come in all shapes…
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Most people know about the Disney amusement parks and movies, but have you heard about how all of that started for Walt Disney? In this blog article by Bruce Jones on Leadership Lessons from Walt Disney: Choose Optimism he details some of the early situations that occurred. Reading through his story and how he handled what could have been seen as a failure is really a learning opportunity. Being able to take a difficult situation and shift your mindset to see it…
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