Tag: Coaching

In Working With Others, How Do You Challenge Them To Make Them Better?

November 2, 2018By CiOIn General Leadership, To The BossesNo Comment

Leadership Lesson: Although leadership is about working to eliminate and minimize environmental, developmental, and mission-related obstacles, making someone or something better in the course of that work, it can’t be fully effective without challenging those who are led.

The leadership of yesteryear – coordinating people to carry out cookie-cutter, repetitive tasks that benefit a mission or organization – is long gone.

Even though most workplaces have evolved past that type of work and mentality, as time goes on, there…

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To Get To Your Goals, Your Biggest Disciplinarian Should Be You

June 29, 2018By CiOIn General LeadershipNo Comment

Leadership Lesson: You need to be your own disciplinarian if you’re going to break what comes naturally – complacency and comfort — to build forward.

How do you keep yourself in shape? How do you keep everything tight, strong, and flexed, so you are prepared and ready to push through obstacles and achieve what you’re capable of?

No, I don’t mean physically.

I mean goals outside…

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Your Leadership Wake: How Do You Guide And Support Others?

March 23, 2018By CiOIn To The BossesNo Comment

Leadership Lesson: Leadership is about building others, engaging their best, and challenging them toward their best, to build toward a common goal.

This previous post had broken down the power and influence of leadership impact and introduced this series of posts covering where the wake from a leader’s actions can be observed and felt.

It outlined how a leader — or anyone, for that matter — can create and leave…

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What Good Is Someone’s World Of Lessons If They Can’t Come Off The Page?

September 15, 2017By CiOIn General Leadership, To The StudentsNo Comment

Learning is important. That much is obvious, right? It’s at the core of what developing, creating, and growing in your life, workplace, and career is.

Some people will stop learning by choice. They’ve had their fair share of as much as they can — and would like to — take.

Others see the merit in evolving, changing, and recycling the knowledge, as it’s refined and further developed throughout their…

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Have You Learned From The Marks Adversity Has Left On Your Journey?

August 11, 2017By CiOIn General LeadershipNo Comment

Coaching is an interesting field because it demonstrates how much people don’t know about themselves. Many times, the solutions clients seek are within their reach in their environment, and it is during the coaching process that the client becomes aware of those very tools and how to refine them to serve themselves best.

There are countless times where the client doesn’t know where to look or what to consider. They…

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In The Course Of Your Leadership, How Do You Pay It Forward?

April 10, 2017By CiOIn General Leadership, To The BossesNo Comment

So much goes into our leadership and development — in the present, for the future, and from the past.

Years of education and experiences combine to make up who and what we are today. It is up to us to take into consideration what is in our past, to determine what it is that made us who we…

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What People Teach Us: Travis Kalanick — Temper vs. Leadership

March 1, 2017By CiOIn CiO Briefs, General LeadershipNo Comment

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick posted a “Profound Apology” on the company’s website to atone for or, at least, begin atoning for his behavior in a video which surfaced of him berating an Uber driver, while he was a fare in the man’s car, who had challenged him on the company’s policies which purportedly cost the driver $97,000 in losses.

In the…

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Leadership: What Someone CAN Do Versus What They WANT To Do

October 24, 2016By CiOIn To The BossesNo Comment

Leadership is powerful. It is gripping. It is influential. It is impactful.

But it can’t be any of those things unless it is harnessed and refined.

And leadership is not only about refining the best in oneself, but seeking out, and tapping into, the best in others.

Most often, an organization might overlook the leadership potential in its members because it doesn’t seem as if some have the…

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So, You Want To Be An Effective Leader. How Are Your Conversational Skills?

September 10, 2016By CiOIn Article, General LeadershipNo Comment

Contrary to traditional — and misguided — belief, leading is not merely about coming into an environment, picking up the torch and pushing forward.

It is not merely serving as a talking head for all that has been built and laid out before one’s own tenure.

It is not merely continuing what was laid out before one’s arrival, but also building upon and improving it,…

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Never Assume You Can Speak For Others Unless It’s Agreed Upon

January 7, 2016By CiOIn CiO Briefs, General LeadershipNo Comment

It’s always been advised that one should never judge a book by a cover. Hand-in-hand with that advice is the understanding that we should not make assumptions about anything or anyone.

These pieces of advice have as much to do with leadership as they do with surveying one’s entire environment and keeping an open mind as one seeks a familiar, supportive, and safe environment in which to proceed,…

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When It’s Time To Be Thankful, Make Sure You Acknowledge Your Own Work

December 24, 2015By CiOIn General LeadershipNo Comment

This time of year we all get sentimental. The season is about family, friends, and realizing the true value of what we have as we close out the year, where toward the end of that celebratory season we’re then faced with what we will take on in New Year’s resolutions.

Giving thanks stems from appreciation, which stems from acknowledgement, which stems from taking stock and assessing what’s taking…

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How Do You Break Down Advice To Determine How It Applies To You?

December 11, 2015By CiOIn To The Bosses, To The GraduatesNo Comment

Working in leadership and talent development, one can hear musings go back and forth as to the credibility or reliability of pieces of advice.

Follow your passion. Just be yourself. Everything happens for a reason. Fake it until you make it.

Pieces of advice might be well-intentioned and based in assistance, but the advice has to and should be vetted by the recipient.

Granted, yes, it is advice — something from…

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Coaching & Mediation: Cousins Continuously Realizing & Harnessing Value

November 21, 2015By CiOIn General LeadershipNo Comment

On a few occasions I’ve been asked, when friends, colleagues, or other professionals have seen my posts and thereafter read the Services section, how and why CiO’s services include both Leadership Coaching and Mediation. To them, one seemed to be about improving oneself (leadership) while the other had to do with improving the relationship between two parties (mediation). These are fair points considering the traditional idea and perception of each. But there’s…

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