“All creation is a mine, and every man is a miner.” ~ Abraham Lincoln A while back, I was working with a group of leaders from a gold mining company to help them strengthen their Coaching Skills. Towards the end of the week I had an opportunity to tour the mine. My guide Jesse…
The cost of continuing to engage a disengaged leader is staggering! Over the course of the last 20 years so much emphasis has been placed on the impact that disengaged employees have on the bottom line. And while technically, a leader is an employee, the cost of disengaged leader can be ten times the cost…
(RE)discovering Your Purpose as a Leader Not too long ago, I had the opportunity to kick off a new group for our, Art of Leading, Coaching, & Influencing Others™ Program. It is an advanced learning experience that reeducates leaders on the core principles of what it means to lead others, while consistently building their coaching &…
Leadership Training: Transactional or Transformational When you go to McDonald’s there is a pretty good chance that you’re not going with the intention of having an exquisite culinary experience. In fact, going through the drive-thru is a four step process that is repeated tens of thousands of times a day in drive thru’s all across…
The Art of Leading, Coaching, and Influencing Others ™ How would you define The Art of Leading Others? Studies have shown that you can boil down human behavior into 4 basic categories. People are either driven by a need to be right, to be liked, to be recognized/seen, or to win. Apply that concept as…
Oops … I Did It … Again! Saturday I had a chance to watch my girlfriend’s 12 year old daughter Ally play club volley ball. They won their first match pretty quickly and then moved onto the next. It was during this second match that I watched the negative affects that poor leadership has on…
How to Bounce Back and Improve Your Resiliency “Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, All the king’s horses and all the king’s men, Couldn’t put Humpty together again.” There has been much debate about whether Humpty Dumpty was actually an egg … or not. The point here is that…
The path to becoming fully “alive” as a leader begins when you define your purpose – your reason for living. As you get clarity and awareness of your own path you are then able to help others discover and live their own path. Leadership is about pathfinding. In his book Aspire, Kevin Hall breaks down…
Monday of this week I sent an audio CD on managing your energy via the U.S. Post Office to one of my clients. Tuesday, I found the same envelope that had I dropped off at the post office the previous day in my mail box with a stamp on it that read “Returned For 43…
How Do You Respond To Your Constituents (Customers)? Elected officials like Sales Professionals some times forget who their customer’s are … Recently I received an email from my favorite Phoenix City Councilman Sal DiCiccio asking for support on a local bill that would force the local Phoenix government to be more efficient in spending our…