Executive Coaching

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Sharpen Your Vision, Recharge Your Soul: The Leader's Roadmap to an Extraordinary 2024

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Sharpen Your Vision, Recharge Your Soul: The Leader's Roadmap to an Extraordinary 2024

As we close the books on another year, it's time to reflect, recharge, and set our sights on an extraordinary 2024. For financial and professional services professionals, this means:

  • Gratitude: Remember, behind the deals and docs, there's a human element. Take time to appreciate your clients, colleagues, and the privilege of shaping the financial landscape.

  • Perspective: Step away from the screen, reconnect with nature, and gain fresh perspective. A clear mind leads to sharper deals.

  • Renewal: Prioritize your well-being. Whether it's a mountain trek or a mindfulness practice, invest in activities that recharge your soul and fuel your drive.

  • Vision: Chart your course for the year ahead. Set ambitious goals, strategize with your team, and embrace the challenge of the climb.

  • Accountability: Someone beside you who can provide motivation, perspective, and insight to help you stay focused and energized to achieve your goals separates dreamers from achievers.

Let's make 2024 a year of not just closing deals, but closing the gap between ambition and fulfillment.

Breakthrough's Five Keys to Paramount Success

Breakthrough's Five Keys to Paramount Success

Breakthrough's five key's to paramount success is a results-driven, strategic learning framework grounded in academic research and industry best practices. It includes:

1. Assessment

2. Awareness

3. Acceptance

4. Action, and

5. Accountability.

This process fosters breakthrough moments that ignite breakthrough habits that help business leaders break through to next-level of performance.

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Systems Theory and Organizational Change

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Systems Theory and Organizational Change

While reading for a course in applied industrial/organizational psychology, I came across some helpful insights regarding the application of systems theory in organizational change initiatives.

As a former communications executive, finding points in systems to leverage in an organizational change initiative resonates with my theoretical approach and experience. The concept rests on finding the right people in the systems with maximum influence to produce the desired change. Executive coaching can help equip the leader for the change and applying systems theory help make changes stick.

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Improving Team Interactions

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Improving Team Interactions

People have two roles within a team: functional and psychological. Regardless individual team member’s neurological hardwiring, there are some strategies that teams can employ to optimize their performance. With conscious effort, practice, and a trusted thought partner leaders can and do create the conditions necessary for their teams to thrive.

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End of Year Gratitude

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End of Year Gratitude

I began this year as a full-time employee for the parent company of America’s flagship PBS station with a great team and a fabulous boss. I laughed heartily with my colleagues, loved learning the television industry, and I was enthralled as a core member of the team that launched the company’s first free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channel. In short, I had a great job, but there was a hollow pit in my gut that kept me from being truly fulfilled.

My turning point this year was when I changed my primary care physician. During my physical, he asked me if I’d ever had an anal Pap smear. Because we did this screening, we were able to see that I had abnormal cells. Biopsies in April and December showed that I have HSIL, a k a AIN III, a k a Stage 0 anal cancer.

So, why am I grateful?

Group Dynamics and Trust

Group Dynamics and Trust

The best leaders I work with as an executive coach enjoy bringing talented people together and helping them achieve their best work. They tend to do this by creating a compelling vision; clearly communicating that vision; modeling their organization’s values, which often includes transparency around setting goals and holding themselves and their team members accountable to them; and empowering their people to deliver results.

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Five Tips for Managing a Hybrid Team

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Five Tips for Managing a Hybrid Team

With more than 40% of employees around the world interested in changing jobs this year, leaders need to go out of their way to ensure their remote team members feel included as they adjust to managing hybrid in-person and remote teams.

We offer five tips for organizations to help their remote workers feel valued and included.

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Good-Hearted Good Business

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Good-Hearted Good Business

What percentage of the global workforce do you think Microsoft’s Work Trend Index found is considering leaving their current employer this year?

A. 15%

B. 25%

C. 40%

If you answered C, you win! Your prize? Read the rest of this post to find out why and what employers can do about it.

Wrestling in the Mud

Wrestling in the Mud

What do you want?

It seems like a simple enough question, yet it’s one that many of my clients genuinely struggle to answer. Many can name benefits that flow from what they want, like “happiness,” or “success,” or even, “success without sacrificing time with my family.” These are fantastic ideals, but can you name what you truly, deeply, unshakably want from the core of your being? For some, grappling with this question can feel like Jacob wrestling with the angel.