Tag: Coaching
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Purpose To Alignment To Engagement
📖 “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich NietzscheA shared senses of purpose leads to alignment. Alignment, coupled with psychological safety leads to engagement. Engaged teams out perform when compared to disengaged teams. Are your teams aware of the purpose they serve, and how they solve…
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Stop A Moment And Look Around You
📖 “If I were asked for the most important advice I could give, I should simply say: stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.” – Leo TolstoyTolstoy understood the importance of awareness and reflection. Pausing a moment and reflecting on your day is a vital way to continuously improve the way you work…
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Learn, Unlearn, Relearn
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” Alvin Toffler Continuious Improvement means continuious learning. It means undderstanding that just because something worked yesterday, doesn’t mean it will work tomorrow. It means that everything should be on the table…
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Happy National Awkward Moments Day
🥳 Happy National Awkward Moments Day! – March 18Celebrate the day by Seeing the humor in awkward moments and have fun with them. Being vulnerable –Share stories about our own awkward moments with your team. Laugh over them and enjoy the memory. Helping someone else recover from an awkward moment. They may be embarrassing…
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A Transformation by any other name.
I’ve often wondered if one of the reasons transformations fail to meet expectations, is because so many organizations misuse the word “transformation.” Let’s start with a couple of simple definitions. trans·for·ma·tion /ˌtran(t)sfərˈmāSH(ə)n/ noun a thorough or dramatic change in form or appearance. trans·form /tran(t)sˈfôrm/ verb make a thorough or dramatic change in the form, appearance,…
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The point is to understand
📖 “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” – Albert Einstein The siren call to action can be impossible to ignore. In fact, the pressure to “do” can be so great, that we’ll look at data- make an assumption and then act without ever looking back. Albert Einstein seemed to be warning us…
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An open mind can change the world
Over the last 24 hours, I heard 3 questions that really caught my interest. The first question was “How can you coach someone to get better at something if they don’t think they need to improve.” The second question was “What do you do with that one person on the team who always seems to…
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You don’t have to wait
📖 “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” ― Anne Frank What are you waiting for?✔️ Reflect✔️ Set a goal✔️ Make a small change✔️ Repeat You don’t have to swing for the fences every day. Small experiments bring about small changes that add up over…
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Failure teaches us…
📖 “Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.” – John Dewey Some people view failure as a negative, and I can understand why that might be. Consider this…. 🤔 If you never fail, did you really give everything you could to something?…
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Everything is not fact…
📖 “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” ― Marcus Aurelius It’s easy to be so confident in a direction or a belief, that we forget to reflect. Challenge yourself to reflect and identify bias in your own thinking. You may be surprised…