Topics in executive coaching get hot, then cold, and sooner or later become popular again. In the past few months the subject of executive presence, a term coined quite some time ago, has surfaced again and is the number one area of interest for my clients. People frequently want it for themselves or those who report to them. The challenge is the term is used in so many ways and situations that one person’s definition ends up being quite different than another’s. When I ask a client, “what would executive presence look like if you had it,” they often say, “I can’t describe it, but I would know it if I saw it.” [Read more…]
Generation Z in the Workplace
Whether you pronounce Generation Z as Gen Zee or Gen Zed (the latter being the more common because it is an international pronunciation), it is impossible to deny the power and influence this group of young adults, born between the mid-1990s and mid-2000s, is having, and will continue to have, on the world of work. [Read more…]
Four Essential Workplace Soft Skills
LinkedIn surveyed 2,000 business leaders and looked at data points from its 500 million members. They asked employers, “Who and what are you looking to hire?” and asked the data, “What did employees possess to successfully land a job or earn a promotion?” In individual terms, “What is employability?” Fifty-seven percent of the time organization leaders, hiring managers, and human capital professionals said soft skills was the answer. [Read more…]
What Executive Women Should Share with Girls
Oh! I’m probably going to get pushback on this article (I’m ready for it). I am stating, flat out, this is not a scientific study. It’s observations I have made over the 20 years I have been coaching executive women.
Are You a Team Player?
What’s your role and contribution to your team and your teammates? It begs the questions, “are you a team player?”, “what type of team player are you?”, and “what would make you a better one?”
No one can succeed alone. Most of us belong to several different teams or groups. Whether it is a project you are working on together, the department you are assigned to, or a task force you have been asked to join, you experience the dynamics, trials and tribulations of people trying to get things accomplished with others. [Read more…]
Building a World-Class Workplace Team
Recently I’ve been challenging my executive coaching clients to think about and create a “world-class” workplace team. What I mean is pulling together a group of people that can compete in any venue, deliver extraordinary results, in an environment that is ethical, positive, and rewarding. It’s a tall order but not one that can’t be filled. Here’s what I see as some of the essential elements for creating a workplace team that is ready, willing, and able to excel now, by 2020, and beyond. [Read more…]
Dignity in the Workplace
I had never heard of Donna Hicks. Nor had I read her acclaimed book “Leading with Dignity — How to Create a Culture That Brings Out the Best in People.” I came upon her TED talk by chance. I’m glad I did and want to share her wisdom with you. [Read more…]
Feedback — The Benefits and Risks
“People need to be reminded more than they need to be instructed.”
— Samuel Johnson
I came upon this quote and my mind quickly went to the subject of feedback. There is a hunger for it and a dearth of it in our professional and personal lives. It is particularly missing when it comes to positive feedback. [Read more…]
Are You a Core Contributor in Your Workplace?
There is a pattern I am seeing among a group of my coaching clients. Men and women in their mid-thirties to late forties who want to change jobs and are having difficulty doing so. There are many reasons why this is happening ― they make too much money to be junior and affordable, their specialty is so narrow few opportunities exist, or their network is too small and outdated, they have limited access to the right people and possibilities. [Read more…]
Change Office Culture ― Start with the Leaders
I recently viewed a brief video on office culture, “How do CEOs create an ideal work culture? ‘You live it’,” featuring Patty McCord, a coach and consultant to CEOs. Patty worked as the Chief Talent Officer at Netflix for many years where she was charged with “reimagining office culture and disrupting best practices.”
Patty is a bold and inventive leader who has little tolerance for many of the tried and true practices of most office cultures. Here are a few: [Read more…]
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