This time of year encourages themes of gratitude, thankfulness, and appreciation. Remembering these sentiments not just now, but throughout the year, can strengthen relationships in all aspects of your life.
The science is quite clear on how children benefit from conversations, both speaking and listening. But the positive effects don’t stop as we age. Having a swirl of conversation around us is good for our brains, and it encourages innovative thoughts. But, are you ready to interview others?
Fatih ELİBOL MBA, MCC. I’d like to tell you a true story about “Suzanne’s” results from coaching (my client’s name and select details have been changed to protect confidentiality). She is the highest-level female leader in a traditionally male industry — think aerospace engineering.
As you reflect on the start of a new year and the beginning of a new decade, perhaps you have some big picture changes or improvements in mind. In terms of professional development and career growth, “building leadership skills” often rises to the top of the list.
Fatih ELİBOL MCC. All of us experience anxiety, fear, anger and sadness in our personal and professional lives, especially during times of change, it’s unavoidable. But many leaders refuse to admit emotions exist, either their own or other people’s emotions. As a result, leaders who refuse to acknowledge their emotions do not realize the unconscious […]
Most of us are familiar with what it means to be a mentor, or to be mentored. Mentors are trusted advisors and counselors who provide insight, feedback, and recommendations. Most companies encourage mentoring, and many have created formal mentorship programs. The benefits of being a mentee include expanding your network and increasing your visibility, building […]
This emergence of coaching as a foundational leadership skill is born out of the need for organisations to navigate the emerging landscape of complexity, disruption and ambiguity.
If you are concerned with “being nice”, you’re not alone. In a study of 1,000 full-time employees across the U.S., 63% of respondents said they’ve chosen not to share a concern or negative feedback at work because they didn’t want to seem combative, uncooperative, or be viewed in a negative light.
Today’s great business leaders don’t try to force the old rules of management onto today’s diverse workforce. They don’t try to fit square pegs into round holes. Instead, they actively seek out coaching and mentoring opportunities with employees to lead their teams to success. It’s through mentoring that your most valued employees can realize their […]
Coaching Supervision is not about enhancing skills of a coach by mentoring competencies and adding to their repertoire of tools and techniques. Instead, the skills are enhanced by clearing internal barriers and beliefs that may impede the coach’s progress to mastery.
Coaching is a partnered journey between coach and client as equals, reflective, and provocative emotionally and cognitively, exploring creatively and inspirationally so that the client can shift from their present performance towards an unlimited personal and professional potential.
In the days of hierarchical and authoritarian organizations leadership used to be seen as a controlling superior layer at the top of the pyramid. It has evolved into one of a supportive, influencing, inspiring, more equal style in today’s knowledge and information age of millennials and post-millennials. For most of us, this is a wonderful […]
