Think coaching is a luxury? An add on? Something only for dysfunctional workers and organizations?
Think again because the data shows the opposite – coaching pays the highest return on investment when it’s used consistently at the leaderful edge, the way Olympians use their coaches. Coaching to problem solve pays off well, according to the studies [...]
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A Workshop for Entrepreneurs & Professionals
with Dr. Joni Carley
During this limited enrollment, one-day intensive workshop, including MasterMind coaching, we will work ON your Business to help you:
• Spark Your Entrepreneurial Passion to revitalize your professional life
• Develop and Sharpen Your Vision for Your Business
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• Strategize your game [...]
In some ways, September is more like New Year’s than January is. Maybe because of our natural connection to earth’s rhythms, maybe because of the school hours that built themselves around crop cycles, maybe because so many businesses come to a halt in the dog days of summer – but whatever the reason, summer is [...]
A few years ago, I taught Ethics to Drexel U students who were just entering the business world. According to their evaluation forms, their work lives were deeply impacted by class. However, ethics is a living, breathing, adaptive science and can’t be taught like Math. I’ve learned from years of leadership [...]
I just read an article on BNet called, ‘Truthiness’ Can Make or Break a Corporation, by Jeffrey Pfeffer (May 20th, 2010 @ 8:00 am). “Truthiness” is a word Stephen Colbert coined to talk about how a business or news item “smells.” The truthiness factor is a sniff test – you can smell truth or [...]
Please help me with some research by answering this poll question on LinkedIn:
Do you believe a new values-driven leadership paradigm is emerging and that an old profit-at-any-cost paradigm is collapsing?
It’s funny, there’s no doubt that the work I do is progressive but the irony is that values-driven leadership is fundamentally what the founding fathers envisioned when they drew up the Constitution. So, at the heart of the matter, it’s pretty conservative! Especially in a capitalist system, liberty and justice for all starts in the [...]
There is an emerging awareness of a high return on investment in principals but we still don’t really know, and certainly can’t adequately measure, the value of values. True leadership requires respecting your own inner GPS and creating a workplace ethic for principled and inspired action.
We are past the tipping point in [...]
Coaching exercise:
For 2 days, with every difficult choice you have to make, risk erring on the side of generosity.
At the end of day 2, take 10 minutes to sit in a quiet, undisturbed place and focus on peak feelings and thoughts.
The European Business Review
The Soulless Organization: Overcoming pornographic management
By Stephen Long, PhD
Fear ignites the survival instinct in even the most ambitious people. Corporate values such as teamwork and mutual support fly out the window when people are preoccupied with survival and subsequently lose their focus on growth-oriented initiatives. It’s no [...]
