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Category: Executive Coaching
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This time of year is tough for many leaders. We are juggling everyday leadership responsibilities, fiscal and year-end accountabilities, and navigating the ever-evolving expectations and commitments associated with the holiday season. My Recent Mind Trap Last week, I found myself in a mind trap of failure, not-enoughness, and inadequacy. What does this look like? I…
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What is joy? Joy is a positive affective or emotional state. It is something we can broaden and build (Fredrickson, 2001). The more we notice, practice, and express gratitude for the joy in our lives, the more we feel and experience it. Johnson (2020) suggests that: When we talk about bringing joy into workspaces, it…
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Trusting your inner wisdom in team coaching to navigate conflict and strengthen psychological safety
What is team coaching? Team coaching involves partnering with and walking alongside teams to help them learn together, relate together, reflect together, achieve together, and grow together. Team coaching supports teams in leveraging their collective talents and gifts to achieve goals, strengthen performance, enhance team health, and transform themselves, their team and their organization(s). Traylor et al. (2020)…
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Leadership is tough work. It can feel overwhelming and all-consuming. At times, our work as leaders can take a toll on our happiness and well-being. Reflecting on 2024, I noticed one consistency – more moments of joy in my life. I’ve lived with anxiety and depression since my early 20s. I’ve worked through my mental…
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Image generated using ChatGPT 4.0 using the following prompt: Create an image of an AI Executive Coach This post is intended to help executive coaches and those interested in accessing executive coaching build and explore their own personalized AI executive coach. I am not an AI expert. I am an academic leader and a certified…
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I’ve identified one leadership skill to practice this year. It’s a tough one (maybe the toughest of all!), so I’ve given myself a year to practice and reflect on it, and maybe move one step forward to becoming a more conscious leader and human being. You know that moment between when something happens that triggers…
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What is coaching? The International Coaching Federation defines coaching as: partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential. The process of coaching often unlocks previously untapped sources of imagination, productivity and leadership. ICF, nd In practice, coaching involves partnering with people through an emerging…
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Authors: Natasha Kenny and Sue Miller As we round the corner to the end of 2023, the importance of taking some time to reflect on what we’ve learned and how we will move forward into 2024 struck us this week. So often we rush forward into the new year, without taking time to pause, reflect,…
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