Blog entries tagged 'coaching'

On A Good Day, Motivation Lasts About 5 Minutes

vallove

on. The big 'poof' has an important job: to get the fire started. Then the 'poof' vanishes, just as quickly as it came. It was great while it lasted.

When the poof vanishes, a fire remains. Now, the charcoal is engaged. It is set on fire and can continue to burn for hours. No one would attempt to burn lighter fluid for hours; it's impractical and dangerous. Knowing the nature of lighter fluid makes it easy to apply it where it's needed, with care and attention.

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Communication ~ How life is a mirror

anniebarron

r requests and that she is not a competent manager. Surprisingly, the staff in her other department feels exactly the opposite!

How is this possible? Well, during one of our coaching sessions, I learned that this manager has a core belief that she does not do enough. This belief shows up in her home life as well as at work.

Life confirms her belief through the comments and complaints made by the staff in her first department. Even though she is doing her best and she can tick [...]

bus stop

ac111999

w and the elite who overcome the stop will be be on the bus (building unbelievable skills) to the successful America.

Taking Pause

nfulbright

need to be a student of Eastern Philosophy. You don't need to have a half hour of time devoted to it. You simply need to breathe, relax and think.

With breathe, relax and think as your criteria in mind, what activities do you enjoy that will allow you to incorporate these three elements? Almost anything! That is the great thing about meditation. There is no specified time or place. This means you can do it at work. You can do it at home. You can do it in the gym. It doesn't ma [...]

Dealing With Helicopter Parents

nfulbright

into the people they want us to be. Unfortunately, mixed in with genuine love and concern comes a variety of other influences that shapes the parent's expectations of their children. What a parent wants for their child has a lot to do with their own upbringing, education, exposure, limiting beliefs, fears and insecurities. Our society teaches us to go to school, get good grades, graduate, get a job, save money, get married and raise a family. Once you have accomplished that then you can be c [...]

Reducing Ahs, Ums and other Filler Words

fsadamo

attorneys and I'm not intentionally picking on them. I used these two examples simply because they happened to be good examples. For years, I could have been either of them. Very knowledgeable in my profession but not comfortable in speaking or not realizing that these filler words can be distracting.

In fact, for those with a trained ear, particularly Toastmasters, filler words can be quite distracting. To find an non-attorney example, I have a friend I met in [...]

Effective Management: Keys to Being a Successful Leader

nfulbright

The ability to bring people together to accomplish a task is a difficult talent to master. It takes a combination of acquired skills and experience to guarantee the success of anyone in a leadership role. An incompetent manager can have a devastating impact on an organization. A leader with the knowledge, experience and insight necessary to ensure a high performing and profitable organization is hard to come by. In a recent Gallup survey, it was found that 25% of U.S. [...]

The most important piece of information you need.

tcanfield

At last writing I mentioned my program called "R.I.S.K. To The Power Of Two!" The eight categories being:

Riches......................Resources

Image.......................Integrity

Safety......................Security

Kindred.....................Kingdom

These pairs of similar qualities represent the priorities in out lives. They are fairly self explanatory but what may not be quite so obvious is that they are complim [...]

R.I.S.K. To The Power Of Two!

tcanfield

Hi,

As a professional "Risk Taker" I will be focusing my blog entries on that topic. Think about it, everything we do involves risk... and unfortunately we receive very little schooling on the nature of the subject!

That's why I have been developing "R.I.S.K. To The Power Of Two!"

This is a framework of looking at the eight most common areas where we take risks in our lives. The eight categories are as follows:

Riches............... [...]

The Nuts & Bolts of Networking

nfulbright

Networking is a method that is used to build relationships. These relationships could be with classmates, co-workers, business partners, vendors, service providers and even family. We often attend family reunions where we meet new and distant relations. This is an excellent vehicle for networking. Networking is the process of discovering and using connections between people. Many of these connections actually stem from already established friendships and business re [...]